05/19/11 A crypt beneath St. Ursula convent in Florence, believed to be the final resting place of Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo, has yielded a female-sized skull.
05/19/11 ROQUEBRUNE-CAP MARTIN, FRANCE -- When it comes to top-tier French Riviera real estate, certain exclusive enclaves along the gilded coast from Menton to Saint-Tropez are more golden than the rest. Prices of star properties on the "caps," or capes -- Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Cap d'Antibes, Cap d'Ail and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin -- as well as the Saint-Tropez peninsula regularly hit record highs.
05/10/11 BRUSSELS (AFP) - Victims of the crimes of Belgium's infamous child-killer Marc Dutroux led an outpouring of rage on Tuesday after a court ruled in favour of the early release of the paedophile's accomplice and ex-wife.
05/10/11 Michelle Martin, 51, has served only half her 30-year jail term for complicity in the imprisonment and murder of the young victims of her serial killer husband Marc Dutroux.
05/10/11 Meffert details arrangement with Mark St. Pierre, trip to Hawaii with Nagin
05/10/11 Belgian justice authorities have approved a request by the former wife of Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux to be transferred to a convent in France upon her early releas
05/10/11 The UW-Eau Claire women's golf team is tied for 11th place after the first round of the NCAA Division III Championships in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida.
05/09/11 Three new graduates have been awarded Diplomas as Cape Wine Masters at a ceremony being hosted by Lourensford Estate in Somerset West on Friday, May 6.
05/04/11 TWO children were killed in a landslide that happened 6:00 a.m. yesterday at Sitio Langgam, Barangay Coronon, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. Adelaida Badilla, secretary of the Sta. Cruz Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council, identified the victims as one-year-old Jenesa, and Jennelyn, 4, daughters of Reynaldo Sarucam. The house was run over by a [...]
05/01/11 Francis Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmelites" (Dialogues of the Carmelites) is an unforgettable experience. It will be performed through May 8.
04/30/11 Besides picking out Philip Treacy hats to wear to certain royal weddings, what do princesses really have on their plates these days? Well, in Italy,...
04/30/11 *Anne Enright's The Forgotten Waltz will be launched this week at a small party in the home of her editor at Jonathan Cape. Her first novel since the Man Booker Prize-winning The Gathering, this Dublin-set work is "a memory of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing".
04/29/11 Veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier's new 'Princess of Montpensier' is both intelligent and entertaining.
04/29/11 A group that wants to establish a Baraboo homeless shelter is interested in using a building owned by the recently dissolved Homeless Haven of Sauk County.
04/28/11 Some people are born to dance. With an air of joie de vivre, as happened over the weekend with Rita Wilson, the spouse of Tom Hanks, and her sister Lilly Reeves leading those time-honored folk dances from the Greek Islands. They danced and danced, and Tom Hanks crooned Blues Brothers-style blues about Easter to the bouzouki band at Ann and Jim Gianopulos 15th annual garden party celebrating ...
04/23/11 I HAD never noticed how closely the syncopated rhythm of zydeco music echoes the rollicking stumble of horses on rough terrain. But on a September afternoon in the piney woods of Evangeline Parish, in Louisiana's Cajun country, with hundreds of dusty horseback riders moving down a narrow trail, the kinship was impossible to miss. As the horses followed a tractor towing a D.J. and a zydeco ...
03/18/11 Visit this month-by-month guide to festivals in South Louisiana for 2011
03/15/11 It's been 50 years, but Suzanne Whissell remembers the disaster like it was yesterday. In the blink of an eye, water filled the home the then 12-year-old shared with her parents and four siblings. When it was over, only she and her father had survived.[...]
03/13/11 Associated Press - March 13, 2011 3:24 AM ET BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A business development trade magazine says new economic projects for Louisiana and North Carolina headed its list of annual...
03/13/11 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A business development trade magazine says new economic projects for Louisiana and North Carolina headed its list of annual award winners. | 
