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It certainly should, because that's exactly what popped into our undies when we heard this exhilarating news! J.K. Rowling 's new hit novel, A Casual Vacancy , is coming to the small screen and though there won't be wizards, dragons, or even the Dursleys of four Privet Drive, we're awarding 10 points to the BBC for making our pants-wands harden with anticipation! A Casual Vacancy marked the ridiculously successful's author first attempt at an adult novel after a fairly successful series of young adult books called Harry Potter . ACV a best-seller so it doesn't surprise us BBC One and BBC Drama are already committed an episodic adaptation! Rowling plans to collaborate with the channel creatively and, if all goes well, the world could feast on the fruits of their labor as soon as 2014. Mmm… fruit!! READ THE FULL STORY HERE.

Actress Natasha Richardson has been injured in a skiing accident and her family is said to be very distressed after this episode. She injured her head in the said accident.

The veteran political journalist John Sergeant is to quit TV talent show Strictly Come Dancing because he fears there is a real risk that he could win it. After a month-long battle with the judges that prompted a national debate on the limits of televisual democracy, Sergeant confirmed his departure this afternoon and explained that he had decided to give up after using his political expertise to analyse the likely behaviour of voters. But the 64-year-old will not be waltzing away into the footnotes of ballroom dancing history quite yet. Sergeant and his Russian partner, Kristina Rihanoff, are to perform a "farewell dance" on the show this weekend.

Hong Kong - The prayer room is abuzz with an insectoid hum where more than 30 young boys sit cross-legged on the floor, reciting lines from Korans propped on wooden desks in front of them. Some recite quietly to themselves, others chant more loudly while swaying rhythmically back and forth. But one in the front of the room is more intense than the others. The green cloth cover that protects the yellowed pages of Umar Khatab’s Koran is faded and frayed. The beginning and end of each day’s assignment is jotted in the margins of the text every 15 lines. Today, the 13-year-old’s task is to memorize a full page from the 25th “part.” He’s just three parts short of memorizing every verse in the holy book. It’s a task few Muslims ever achieve. And it may be the saving grace – both spiritually and practically – for Umar, a newly orphaned immigrant facing a bureaucratic battle that could alter his life. In this teeming immigrant employment mecca, the struggle of a Pakistani child suddenly alone ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sarajevo marks the 13th anniversary of a massacre, which prompted NATO's airstrikes and led to the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Hundreds are attending the ceremony held Thursday in downtown Sarajevo where a mortar shell fired from Serb positions tore through a crowded market, killing 43 and injuring 84 people in 1995. The massacre came two months after Serb troops killed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. It triggered NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs. On Friday Bosnian Serb wartime leader and genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic will be asked to enter pleas on 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide, at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

Nausea (orig. French La Nausée) is a novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938 and written while he was teaching at the lycée of Le Havre. It is one of Sartre's best-known novels. The novel concerns a dejected historian in a town similar to Le Havre who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea. It is widely considered one of the canonical works of existentialism. Sartre was awarded (but declined) the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. They recognized him, "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age." Sartre was one of the few people to ever decline the award, referring to it as merely a function of a bourgeois institution. In her La Force de l'Âge (The Prime of Life - 1960), French writer S...