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At Cannes' movie palace, talk of TV's rise

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:35:36 -0400

CANNES, France - The annual Cannes festival on the French Riviera is the grandest platform in the world for the highest ambitions of film, a place where the art form is worshipped with wild passion and adoring reverence. Movies are projected pristinely in regal theaters, where they're greeted by the world's cinephiles with feverish excitement.

Teens spearheaded Louisville desegregation effort

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:55:30 -0400

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - Raoul Cunningham was a gangly 17-year-old high school junior when Louisville police came for him at the lunch counter of the old Stewart's Department Store in February 1961. They handcuffed him, he says, and hauled him off to the old Children's Center juvenile facility on East Chestnut Street.

Retirement tests if Beckham built lasting brand

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:52:02 -0400

PARIS - David Beckham's pecs are at least as much a part of his brand as his kick; his brand of shoes ultimately more lucrative than the game he's giving up. Listed as the world's highest-earning athlete for 2013, Beckham's retirement from play still leaves him with valuable endorsements and unparalleled celebrity. The question is whether he can maintain it.

Key events in Pakistan's political history

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:10:07 -0400

A chronology of key events in Pakistan's history:

Louisville distillery joins Kentucky Bourbon Trail

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:26:22 -0400

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - Kentucky's mostly rustic bourbon sector is spreading to the shadows of Louisville's skyscrapers, where a tiny distillery being developed by the maker of Evan Williams bourbon will become a big-city stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that draws hundreds of thousands of tourists each year.

Hard-line Islamists to make gains in Pakistan vote

Thu, 09 May 2013 02:23:34 -0400

MARDAN, Pakistan - The imposing, black-bearded politician in a striking white turban takes the stage at a campaign rally in northwest Pakistan as a song about Islamic holy war blares over loudspeakers. Before a chanting crowd, he praises the Afghan Taliban and blasts Pakistan's government for not protecting Osama bin Laden from U.S. commandos.