
An Olympic life and 7 vital minutes at Sochi Games
For Florent Amodio, it may be now or never. The French figure skater was just 19 at his first Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, in 2010, old enough to ...
Correction: Cuba-Television story
In a story Feb. 10 about the network Telesur in Cuba, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the Committee to Protect Journalists. A corrected ...

As Carnival fever seizes Rio, some seek escape
As samba queens get final touch-ups on their sequins and feathers and hundreds of thousands of revelers take command of Rio's streets for Carnival's ...
Universal Music to sell Coldplay label to Warner
Universal Music Group is selling Parlophone — the label of acts like Coldplay, David Guetta and Radiohead — to Warner Music Group for 487 million ...
Hackers sentenced for Michael Jackson music theft
A British court sentenced two hackers to 100 hours of community service on Friday for stealing a treasure trove of unreleased music — including ...

Manning goes with glove as weather gets frightful
There's a new "Gloved One" — in Denver, at least. Ripping a page from Michael Jackson's playbook, quarterback Peyton Manning has practiced for and ...

Whale of a tale: Pakistani fishmonger now pop star
Muhammad Shahid Nazir is a testament to the age-old adage that if you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day, but if you teach a man to sing about ...

Communist palace draws pop stars and presidents
Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament, a gargantuan Stalinist symbol and the most concrete legacy of ex-dictator ...

Column: Only 1 athlete of the year in 2012, Messi
'Tis the season for making merry and for choosing our top sports men and women of the year, two distinctly separate annual rituals that in fact ...

Elizabeth Price wins UK's Turner Prize for arts
Video artist Elizabeth Price, who uses collage and clutter to explore people's relationship to consumer culture, was named the winner of British art's ...