IN A BASEMENT studio just outside Paris, Gaspard Winckler, a master forger, has just murdered Anatole Madera, the crooked head of a group of international art dealers, and his patron. 

Author J.K. Rowling has declined to seek damages from a French teenager who translated the latest Harry Potter novel and posted it online.

French police detained a 16-year-old who posted an unauthorised translation of the latest Harry Potter book online, a French newspaper reported today.

Legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who travelled the world for more than a half century capturing human drama with his camera, has died, French media reported today.