MEXICO CITY- Award-winning Mexican poet Jose Emilio Pacheco died Sunday, officials said. He was 74. "We regret the passing of Jose Emilio Pacheco. Our sympathies to his family and friends," Mexico's...

BEIJING- A fire has destroyed more than 100 homes in a Chinese village built three centuries ago, state media said on Sunday, the third blaze to ravage a cultural site in weeks. The blazes, which all...

LOS ANGELES- US hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won the best new artist Grammy on Sunday, in the first major award handed out on music's biggest night. The pair, who were also nominated for...

WARSAW- An employee of the museum at a former Nazi German death camp in Poland has been charged with anti-Semitism along with five other men, local media and police said Saturday. Officers detained...

LONDON, Alice Ritchie- British-American actress Angela Lansbury, star of "Murder, She Wrote", is returning to London's West End for the first time in nearly 40 years -- in the same theatre where her...

LONDON- A local council in Northern Ireland on Thursday announced the cancellation of a play based on the Bible following complaints by Christian conservatives that it was blasphemous. "As the...

MIAMI, Paula Bustamante- Pop star Justin Bieber was charged with driving under the influence after police caught him drag racing in Miami Beach early Thursday -- allegedly after drinking and smoking...

MADRID- A 400-year-old unpublished romantic comedy by the great Spanish Golden Age playwright Felix Lope de Vega has been found in Spain's national library, officials announced Wednesday. A...

FRANKFURT- A German music festival Wednesday invited social media users to compose all-new orchestral pieces for a "Tweetfonie" to be given a world premiere later this year. The world of classical...