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Fidel Castro's niece to get gay rights award in US
The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro will be allowed to travel to Philadelphia to accept an award for her gay rights advocacy, officials said Tuesday, reversing a previous decision to reject her visa request. Mariela Castro will attend the Equality Forum's annual conference on civil rights for lesbians, gays, ...
NY, Israel museums jointly buy Hebrew manuscript
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem have jointly acquired a 15th-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript, they announced Monday. The Mishneh Torah is a rare manuscript with text by the Middle Ages Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides. It is a synthesis of Jewish law and ...
Holocaust survivors, veterans gather at DC museum
Elderly Holocaust survivors and the veterans who helped liberate them gathered for what could be their last big reunion Monday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Nearly 1,000 survivors and World War II vets joined with former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel ...
Big growth likely for Georgia's film industry
A few years ago, Georgia was locked in a bidding war with North Carolina over the Disney movie, "The Last Song," starring Miley Cyrus. Both states wanted the movie to film in their state, and North Carolina was close to sealing the deal with an attractive tax incentive package. But ...
Drugs found on Bieber tour bus in Sweden
The list of troubles linked to Justin Bieber's tour of Europe grew again after Swedish police said Thursday they had found drugs and a stun gun on the pop singer's bus. No arrests were made since the bus was empty at the time, Stockholm police spokesman Lars Bystrom told The ...
Artist decorates the Louvre's iconic pyramid
An Italian artist decorated the Louvre museum's glass pyramid Wednesday for the first time in the iconic monument's history, in a protest against capitalism. The artwork, a huge three-looped infinity sign made of mirrors, faces due west onto France's business district, La Defense. Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the world's leading ...
Uruk, maybe the 1st metropolis, gets Berlin show
Berlin's Pergamon Museum is offering visitors a glimpse of perhaps the world's first real metropolis in a new exhibition that traces the long history of Uruk, in present-day Iraq. Artifacts, including clay masks of demons, figurines of rulers, limestone ducks used as weights, a prism listing Sumerian kings and clay ...
NBCUniversal expansion to start with Harry Potter
NBCUniversal plans to begin construction this summer on a $1.6 billion, 25-year expansion of its Los Angeles-area theme park, offices and production facilities. The company owned by Comcast Corp. announced Tuesday that it would start building The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at its Universal Studios Hollywood theme park, along ...
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You listen every morning. Their voices come through your car speakers - it makes you excited yet curious. What do these fine young radio folks look like? Is Mimi the Traffic Cougar single? Does Seth have instagram? Does he post pics of his new gf Taylor Swift? Is Jayde in a Twitter fight with a teenage girl this ...
US delays policy to allow small knives on planes
A policy change scheduled to go into effect this week that would have allowed airline passengers to carry small knives, bats and some other sports equipment onto planes will be delayed, federal officials said Monday. The delay is necessary to accommodate feedback from an advisory committee made up of aviation ...
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