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LONDON – British cell phone retailer Carphone Warehouse says personal details of up to 2.4 million customers may have been accessed after the company was hit by a cyber-attack. The company said the security breach, discovered Wednesday, could have included names, addresses, dates of birth and bank details. It said …

WASHINGTON – Two philosophers have been honored with a prize handed out by the Library of Congress for fields not covered by the Nobel prizes. The Library of Congress announced Tuesday that Jurgen Habermas (HOB-uhr-MAHS) and Charles Taylor will share the $1.5 million John W. Kluge (KLOO-ghee) Prize for humanities. …

Sometimes life imitates art—and when life gets really ugly, it can channel an anti-utopian novel. Daily existence in North Korea over decades could have been scripted by George Orwell, while the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s mirrored Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” And today there are sad parallels between the …