The National Security Administration surveillance scandal has prompted a 3,000% surge in purchases of the 1948 dystopian novel

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Danny Boyle's four-hour extravaganza beat off competition from David Bowie's music comeback and the Rolling Stones' 50th anniversary celebrations

Barack Obama could not, as a man of mixed race, have become President without Lincoln’s efforts and Lincoln’s success. So what will he do with that gift?

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Singer’s rendition of Star Spangled Banner on Capitol Hill was not performed live, according to reports

After more than 34,000 petitoned the White House to create giant battle-station, official says $850 quadrillion price tag is too high and US “does not support blowing up planets”

As 'RIP Megan Fox' trends on Twitter, we take a look at some more well-known (and still very much alive) people who the micro-blogging site told us had met their maker

Bond and The Beatles turned 50, the BBC hit crisis-point, Strictly and X Factor kicked off their head-to-head and Felix Baumgartner leapt from space

President Obama awarded the band's surviving members Kennedy Centre Honours for their contribution to American culture and the arts