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Next to the American flag, the Puerto Rican flag was raised in honor of the city's sixth BorinquenFest.

The three-day Puerto Rican cultural festival runs through tonight. Saturday's events included a parade from the South Side to City Hall, the flag-raising ceremony and a fair with live music under the Hill-to-Hill Bridge.

"Eat, drink and have a good time," explained city resident...

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Activist and feminist icon Eve Ensler will be at Vassar College's Susan Stein Shiva Theater, next Sunday, testing out a new satirical play and meeting some of her fans.

Reached by telephone from her New York office, Ensler acknowledged that fans of her politics and her huge hit "The Vagina Monologues" may outnumber those interested specifically in the staged reading of her new play "OPC...

The inaugural New York Surf Film Festival will be dropping in to Tribeca Cinemas from September 26-28th 2008. The New York Surf Film Festival is an event consisting of three days of independent short and feature films, cult classics, and world premieres from established surf filmmakers.

The New York Surf Film Festival is the premier showcase for international independent surf film. The mi...

The federal government has moved to promote the crucial role of nurses in the health system by appointing the nation's first ever chief nurse.

While Australia has had a commonwealth chief medical officer for more than two decades, there has never been a nursing equivalent.

Health Minister Nicola Roxon announced Rosemary Bryant would be appointed Australia's first chief nurse.

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Pope calls for peace in “beloved and tormented” Lebanon

Benedict XVI mentions the Land of the Cedar Tree on the occasion of the beatification in Beirut of Yaaqub Ghazir Haddad. He expressed his closeness to the victims of the sea tragedy in the Philippines. Before the recitation of the Angelus he highlights how the Gospel teaches that those who “fear” God are not afraid because th...

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As a way strengthening its travel portfolio, the reputed TravelChaCha.com is ready to introduce the company’s car hire service later this month. Sanjay Bhasin, Express TravelWorld’s CEO explained: "Our company finds itself in the last stage of creating a car hire platform, that we expect to realise by mid-June. This online facil...

"Ellen DeGeneres gave Portia de Rossi a glittering ring with pink diamonds for their upcoming wedding that will air in part on DeGeneres's talk show.

DeGeneres, 50, who won an Emmy for outstanding talk-show host for the fourth year in a row, announced her plans to wed longtime girlfriend de Rossi, on her show back in May, shortly after California's Supreme Court ruled the previous ban o...

Viet Nam is one of the few developing countries to offer maternity leave that is on a par with developed nations.

According to APESMA (Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia), maternity leave offered in Viet Nam is better than in many developed nations, such as the United States (12 weeks unpaid maternity leave), Australia (one year unpaid leave), Ja...

TOKYO (AFP) — As controversy grows over Japan's whaling, the small coastal towns with a history of the hunt are sticking to their guns, fearing that their way of life is under threat.

Japan is expected to stand firm at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission opening Monday on plans to catch some 1,000 whales a year, and to push for a resumption of full-fledged c...

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AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan turned over Sunday nearly 2,500 stolen Iraqi artifacts to Iraq's top antiquities official, in the latest effort to recover the war-torn nation's stolen heritage.

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ATHENS, Greece - Three policemen were injured, one critically, Sunday evening, when they were ambushed by gunmen on the island of Crete.

The three were part of an operation to arrest marijuana growers in the resort village of Malades, 15 kilometres south of Heraklion, Crete's largest city.

At 8:30 p.m. local time, the police patrol was attacked by people armed with assault rifl...

The culture secretary, Andy Burnham, has been making his presence felt of late, albeit in ways that many in the broadcasting industry - not least those over at Ofcom - find a little disconcerting. Last week he condemned ITV for failing to meet its 50% out-of-London production quota for two years in a row - saying he was "very disappointed" that ITV had missed its targets - and reiterated his vi...

From Dauphin Island Sea Lab, off Alabama's coast, lights from natural gas operations shimmer in the night sky. Dr. John Dindo, the lab's interim director, has watched them twinkle for years. The state's coast, he said, is doing fine.

"The sand I'm sitting here and looking at from my office is just as white as yours," Dindo said.

In Texas, oil is part of the culture on land and w...