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An aspiring viking's quest to write her own legend is among the debut titles that have been shortlisted for this year's Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

An aspiring viking's quest to write her own legend is among the debut titles that have been shortlisted for this year's Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

TORONTO — Looking out at the Canadian television landscape, Toronto-based actresses Lisa Michelle Cornelius and Samora Smallwood see a void. "I cannot think of a Canadian show that has shown a Black family," Cornelius said in a recent interview.

NEW YORK — Bestselling author Emily Giffin is apologizing for recent negative comments she made about Meghan Markle. The “Something Borrowed” author frequently posts about the British royal family on her social media.

LONDON — U.S. prosecutors and attorneys for Britain's Prince Andrew sniped at one another across the Atlantic on Monday, each saying the other side was to blame for the duke's failure to participate in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking probe.

LONDON — There certainly won’t be fuss. Count on that. When Britain’s Prince Philip reaches the grand age of 99 on Wednesday, he will spend it quietly and in much the same way he’s spent most of his adult life: beside Queen Elizabeth II.

LOS ANGELES — Bonnie Pointer, who in 1969 convinced three of her church-singing siblings to form the Pointer Sisters, which would become one of the biggest acts of the next two decades, died Monday.

The Salzburg Festival will be one of classical music’s few offerings in the summer of the coronavirus pandemic, staging a reduced 100th anniversary celebration with capacities limited to about 50%.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California movie theatres can begin opening later this week if they limit theatre capacity to 25% or no more than 100 attendees, under state guidance released Monday.

NEW YORK — The editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit, Adam Rapoport, resigned after a photo of him dressed in a stereotypical Puerto Rican costume surfaced on social media.