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MADRID- Spain's government said Wednesday it has invited Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa to head the Cervantes Institute, which is charged with promoting Spanish language and culture worldwide....
NEW DELHI- British author Salman Rushdie has dismissed demands by an influential Islamic seminary in India that he should be banned from entering the country to attend a literature festival later...
PRAGUE- Tributes poured in from around the world Sunday for late former Czech president Vaclav Havel, hailed as the "soul of the Czech revolution" and an icon for freedom and unity in Europe....
MEXICO CITY- Mexico celebrated Sunday as mariachi music was named to UNESCO's list of "intangible cultural heritage" in need of preservation.
The announcement will help to enhance the traditional...
TRIPOLI, Jay Deshmukh- Libya displayed on Saturday a treasure trove of Roman-era artefacts which officials allege Kadhafi loyalists were planning to sell to finance attacks.
The objects were...
WASHINGTON, Michael Mathes- With a crush of marriages, a rush to buy lucky lottery tickets and prayers for peace and harmony, people worldwide marked Friday's once-per-century 11/11/11 lineup with...
MACAU, Judith Evans- Dona Aida de Jesus is 96 years old and still runs the family restaurant in Macau. She is also something even more remarkable: one of the last custodians of a dying language....
MOSCOW- YouTube on Thursday said it would broadcast live on its website the gala reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, the hottest ticket of the Russian cultural season where seats are like gold...
The collapse happened on Friday, a day after heavy storms lashed Italy, causing flash floods across parts of the country which killed two people, brought the capital Rome to a temporary standstill...
"We saw in other cases, like in Iraq and Afghanistan, that it is the post-conflict that is the most dangerous because there are a lot of weapons, a lot of armed groups, a lot of instability," he...
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