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She may be 86 and suffering from dementia, but former prime minister Margaret Thatcher is still having a divisive effect on Britain, thanks to a new film about her life, as Henry Chu reports.

The all-male Republican presidential campaign has a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, Robert M. Sapolsky, hot on the trail of some "monkey business" not usually associated with the hotbed of politics.

The first 10 minutes or so of the epic fantasy series Game of Thrones are spent celebrating the glories of cable television - bloody violence (beheadings, hacked off body parts, eviscerated guts steaming in the snow) and sex (female semi-frontal nudity, non-missionary position intercourse and unnecessarily graphic sound effects.)

Amid all the talk of gloom and doom in the United States, with the stock market's near crash and the renewed threat of a double-dip recession, it is worth pausing to remember the US remains the greatest country on Earth. It is also the country with the most promising future.

The only sort of power a news organisation can wield safely is the power to persuade.

Season 10 and American Idol finally brought in a couple of pros.

As so often happens, the source of Big Love's greatness almost proved to be its undoing.

When American Idol returns for its 10th season on Friday, it will have two fresh (and very famous) faces at the judges' table.

In creating an online video game based on Superman and the others in the DC Comics pantheon, it was no problem giving the characters the power to stop a locomotive or leap tall buildings in a single bound.