Cultures

AP PHOTOS: Celebrating Azorean culture in southern Brazil
Dec 1, 2017

AP PHOTOS: Celebrating Azorean culture in southern Brazil

AP PHOTOS: Traditions of the Azores island chain are kept alive in southern Brazil at an annual festival of dancing and old crafts, such as making lace and pottery


Nov 28, 2017

Peru's abundant ruins feel the squeeze of urbanization

Historic sites from Peru's Inca past are being crowded out _ and sometimes destroyed _ as new roads, schools and residential neighborhoods are built to meet the population's growing demands


Nov 23, 2017

Johnny Cash boyhood home considered for historic nomination

The boyhood home of country music icon Johnny Cash is being considered as a nominee for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places


Nov 22, 2017

Jamaica protects nearly 75K hectares, bans mining

Jamaica's government says it will protect nearly 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) in a northwest region dotted by mines that features forests, rivers and cultural sites


Nov 7, 2017

Combat and cultural readiness key for new Army trainers

The Army is a new training brigade, military leaders like Col. Scott Jackson aren't looking only at drilling techniques and discipline, but cultural biases and personality issues to root out soldiers unfit for their unique mission


Nov 4, 2017

As US prepares to leave UNESCO, envoy urges deep reforms

The chief U.S. envoy at UNESCO says anti-Israel bias and opaque bureaucracy are hobbling the U.N. cultural agency and is urging deep reforms


Oct 26, 2017

Fire destroys more than a quarter of Brazilian national park

Brazil's Environment Ministry says arson may be the cause of a wildfire that over the past two weeks has destroyed more than a quarter of a national park in the central state of Goias


Oct 24, 2017

Europe should preserve its cultural heritage, EU's Tusk says

Europe should preserve cultural heritage, defend borders against migrants: EU's Tusk


Carlson says nation shifting on harassment issue
Oct 17, 2017

Carlson says nation shifting on harassment issue

Gretchen Carlson, whose harassment accusations led to former Fox News CEO's ouster, says the nation is in the midst of a profound cultural shift on the issue


France's Audrey Azoulay wins vote to be next UNESCO chief
Oct 13, 2017

France's Audrey Azoulay wins vote to be next UNESCO chief

UNESCO's executive board has chosen former French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay to be the U.N. cultural agency's next leader in an unusually heated race overshadowed by Mideast tensions