NEW YORK, July 18 (UPI) -- Amazon.com has deleted two George Orwell books from Kindle devices of customers who had bought the books, the U.S. online content seller said.

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SPOKANE, Wash., March 12 (UPI) -- A community college in Spokane, Wash., unfairly stopped several students from putting up an anti-abortion display on campus, a lawsuit says.

LONDON, March 8 (UPI) -- A series of love letters written by the late British author George Orwell offer a rare glimpse into the mind of the "Animal Farm" writer, his biographer says.

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LONDON, March 5 (UPI) -- A survey released to coincide with World Book Day suggests two-thirds of Britons have lied about reading classic books such as Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace."

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- There was no upside to widespread Israeli destruction in Gaza. Al-Jazeera's 24/7 coverage had a devastating psychological impact on the vast majority of Arab masses. Hamas, not the moderate Fatah section of the Palestinian movement, is now the larger political reality.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Sir Bernard Crick, a British academic and political writer, died Friday in Edinburgh, Scotland, The Guardian reported. He was 79.

CHICAGO, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- What comes next for the Crash of 2008? The medium-term future is bright, if the new banker-bureaucrats don't mess it up in the short term.