By Mike Collett-White LONDON | Tue Feb 7, 2012 10:02am EST LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Charles led global celebrations on Tuesday marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, a titan of English literature whose vivid stories confronted the injustices of Victorian life. Britain’s heir-to-the-throne visited the Charles Dickens Museum in London where [...]

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON | Mon Feb 6, 2012 2:28pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – Sixty years after she ascended to the throne in an austere Britain still facing post-war rationing, Queen Elizabeth marked the milestone on Monday with a new website that showed just how much the world has changed during her reign. The 25-year-old [...]

By Mike Collett-White and Sarah Mills LONDON | Fri Feb 3, 2012 4:11pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth is throwing a star-studded party for him at Buckingham Palace and in Buenos Aires, leading cultural figures will gather in an old orphanage to read from his works. Charles Dickens may have died in 1870, but [...]

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Nest Collective™ announced today that it is voluntarily recalling 815 cases of its Jammy Sammy™ – Strawberry Jam Peanut Butter Flavor Snack Size Sandwich Bars due to a mislabeled inner wrapper. The cartons contain the best by date June 28, 2012 and are marked with the following universal product [...]

LOS ANGELES | Thu Feb 2, 2012 7:41pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The son of “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius said on Thursday his father called him shortly before taking his life, and that he was unhappy and in failing health but kept most of his feelings inside. Don Cornelius, 75, shot himself in [...]