leisure travel

SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) — This 500-year-old city smells of fresh paint and varnish. Residents stroll along a recently completed harbor promenade under gle...

BOSTON (AP) — Twenty-five years after the famed art heist at Boston's Gardner museum, officials have released new surveillance video showing an unauth...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Walt Disney was a complex figure, both celebrated and condemned, but allegations that he was a rabid anti-Semite are unpr...

LONDON (AP) — A pair of U.S. philanthropists with a passion for wild cats pledged Friday to match new donations to Oxford University's Wildlife Conser...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The latest on the Confederate flag in South Carolina (all times local): ___ 8:30 p.m. Delaware police have charged three young m...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A harpsichord that entertained the elites of Italy in the mid-1500s has been restored by a South Dakota museum and will soon ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Kathryn "Kate" Steinle was out for an evening stroll with her father along the San Francisco waterfront when she was killed by a ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The young college student that murdered 38 tourists in a Tunisian seaside resort was in a jihadi training camp in western Libya ...

JAMESTOWN, New York (AP) — Did you hear the one about Bob Hope, Rodney Dangerfield and Andy Kauffman performing on the same stage? It might not be a j...

SEATTLE (AP) — Race, identity and the masks people wear are the themes explored in a new exhibit of contemporary, multimedia art at the Seattle Art Mu...

WAVES, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a 17-year-old boy is the latest victim of a shark attack off North Carolina's coast, the second attack in as many day...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The newest work at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is a gaming app meant to put modern and contemporary art in front of kids by way...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For his next trick, Shigeru Miyamoto is working in reality, not virtual reality. While the famed Japanese creator of "Mario Bros." ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's main national history museum on Wednesday launched an exhibition tracing 150 years of gay history in the country, including th...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lady Gaga turned up in a black bra and dark panties before switching to a zebra-striped suit. Tony Bennett stuck to old-fashioned blue...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge is pressing U.S. officials to explain why it's taken three decades to decide on a proposal to drill for natural...

BERLIN (AP) — An elephant that escaped from a German circus and killed a man over the weekend has been relocated to a German safari park. The 34-year-...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Bennett, Michael Buble (boo-BLAY'), Ne-Yo and Richie Sambora will attend next week's Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Award...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — After a CSI-style investigation and restoration spanning eight years, the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague has declared t...