Da Vinci Code writer triumphs in court

The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown triumphed in a New York City court on Friday, when a judge ruled his best-selling novel had not plagiarised another writer's work.

Lewis Perdue claimed Brown had used sections from two of his novels - 1983's The Da Vinci Legacy and 2000's Daughter of God - in The Da Vinci Code, and sought $150m (€121m) in damages as well as an injunction blocking further distribution of Brown's book and the forthcoming movie adaptation.