NEW YORK (AP) ― For much of the nine years that Shane Salerno worked on his J.D. Salinger documentary and book, the project was a mystery worthy of the author himself.Code names. Hidden identities. Surveillance cameras. Until 2010, when “The Catcher In the Rye” novelist died at age 91, only a handful of people were fully aware of what he was up to. Even now, with the release date of the film “Salinger” less than three weeks away, little is known about a production that draws upon more than 100 i

LONDON (AFP) ― Prince William and his wife Catherine on Tuesday released the first official photographs of their baby son George ― and in a break with tradition they were taken by her father Michael Middleton.The intimate photographs were shot earlier this month in the garden of the Middletons’ family home in rural Bucklebury, west of London, and show the newborn prince lying peacefully in his mother’s arms.George, the third in line to the throne, is wrapped in a white blanket and is apparently

MIAMI, Florida (AFP) ― A man was found shot dead Monday in the Florida home of actress and singer Olivia Newton-John, police said.The actress and her husband, John Easterling, were not in the house when the incident happened, said police in Jupiter Inlet Colony, north of Palm Beach.A local newspaper called the incident a suicide but police refused to confirm this.The man was neither a resident nor a member of the family.The nearly 7,500-square-foot house, located on 35 acres by the coast, was bu

A group of motorcycle enthusiasts from New Zealand started a ride through the Korean Peninsula from North Korea. They launched the trip south in a ceremony held at Mount Baekdusan in North Korea, which straddles the border with China, on Monday, North Korean Central News Agency reported.  The ceremony was attended by guides of the mountain and government officials, including Pak Kyong-il, chairman of North Korea-New Zealand Friendship Society. Gareth and Joanne Morgan entered North Korea from Kh

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― U.S. PGA Tour player Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky ― daughter of Canadian ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky ― announced their engagement Sunday on Twitter.“Paulina Gretzky, she said yes!!!” Johnson tweeted, posting a picture of a diamond ring on his fiancee’s hand.Paulina Gretzky was in the gallery early this year at Kapalua, Hawaii, where Johnson won the US tour’s Tournament of Champions.Johnson, who has seven victories in his six years on the PGA Tour, paired up with Way

U.S President Barack Obama spent the last day of his weeklong summer vacation playing golf with two Korean-Americans ― World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and New York lawyer Eunu Chun. According to news reports Sunday, Obama hit the links Sunday with Kim, attorney and Obama fundraiser Chun, and aide Mike Brush at Martha’s Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, Massachusetts.Attorney Chun, son of a Korean immigrant, grew up in the suburbs north of Chicago and graduated from Harvard University and Columb

Dang Nhat Minh of Vietnam will receive the third Kim Dae-jung Nobel Peace Film Award, the Gwangju International Film Festival Organizing Committee said. Launched in 2011, the annual award is given in cooperation with the Kim Dae-jung Peace Center to encourage filmmakers to deal with human rights, peace, freedom and the value of nature.Minh has gained an international reputation as a director well versed in expressing social contradictions from the perspective of the poor or underprivileged throu

STERLING, Virginia (AP) ― David C. Jones, a retired Air Force general who helped set in motion a far-reaching reorganization of the U.S. military command while serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died at 92.The general’s son, David Curtis Jones, said Wednesday that his father died Saturday at a military retirement community in Potomac Falls, Va. He had Parkinson’s disease.  During the Korean War, he flew more than 300 B-29 bomber missions over North Korea and also flew aerial t