Pamuk, Fuentes and Vargas Llosa to headline international book fair in Guadalajara, Mexico

Pamuk, Fuentes and Vargas Llosa headline book fair

Defiant Diego Maradona offers no apology for profanity-filled tirade on live television

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Diego Maradona won’t apologize for a profanity-filled tirade on live TV that prompted a FIFA investigation and could result in a five-game suspension and nearly $20,000 fine for the Argentina coach.

Battle by the bands: Singers, songwriters join push to shut down Guantanamo detention facility

WASHINGTON — A coalition of mega-bands and singers outraged that music — including theirs — was cranked up to help break uncooperative detainees at Guantanamo Bay is joining retired military officers and liberal activists to rally support for President Barack Obama’s push to shutter the Navy-run prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba.

Radio and television stations return to air after government rescinds decree

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Opposition radio and television stations have returned to the air in Honduras after the government lifted a three-week broadcast ban.

Los Premios MTV host Residente talks politics on his T-shirts, Panda and Wisin y Yandel win

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Mexican rock bands and reggaeton artists were big winners at Los Premios TV in Los Angeles, where the political leanings of the host, Calle 13’s Residente, also had some time in the spotlight Thursday.

Los Premios MTV honor the best of Latin America’s pop and rock with awards show in Los Angeles

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Mexican bands, reggaeton artists were big winners at Los Premios TV in Los Angeles, where the political leanings of the host, Calle 13’s Residente, also had some time in the spotlight Thursday.

Los Premios MTV honor the best of Latin America’s pop and rock with show in Los Angeles

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — MTV will roll its raucous red carpet across continents with its eighth annual Los Premios MTV honoring the best of the year’s pop, rock and reggaeton from across Latin America.

65 films contend for foreign-language honor at 82nd Academy Awards

Here are the 65 foreign-language contenders for the 82nd Academy Awards, along with the names of the directors and countries of origin:

Hospitalized Mexican rock star says she has infection from botched buttocks injections

MEXICO CITY — Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman says she has been hospitalized with an infection from buttocks injections she had to make herself “more beautiful.”

It’s Peru pal: British band’s singer thanks wrong country in Lima concert

LIMA, Peru — Pity the Peruvian rocker.

Review: Renowned wine journalist George Taber finds new ground in wine tourism

“In Search of Bacchus: Wanderings in the Wonderful World of Wine Tourism” (Scribner, 287 pages, $30), by George M. Taber: Thirty-three years ago, George M. Taber set the world of wine on fire with a four-paragraph dispatch about a tasting in France that compared the work of French vintners with those of their counterparts in California. The California wines won, and winemaking in the New World has never been the same.

They go to Rio: Golf, rugby win IOC vote and rejoin Olympic lineup for 2016, 2020 Summer Games

COPENHAGEN — All those beautiful beaches and Tiger Woods, too!

Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960

Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:

Argentines line streets, applauding in honor as hearse carries folk legend Mercedes Sosa away

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentines bid farewell to folk singer and human rights activist Mercedes Sosa with flowers and cheers Monday as her body was taken from Congress to the capital’s Chacarita cemetery.

Buena Vista’s Portuondo headed back to US; says music can better bilateral ties

HAVANA — Omara Portuondo, the sultry-voiced diva of the Buena Vista Social Club, has been granted permission to visit the U.S. for the first time since 2003 and hopes a dose of her sensuous sound can inspire both countries to improve frozen relations.

Britain receives 9 International Emmy nominations; Mexico’s ‘Capadocia’ up for 3 awards

NEW YORK — British television productions received a leading nine International Emmy nominations Monday, including the long-running MI5 spy series “Spooks” for best drama and the TV talent show parody “Peter Kay’s Got the Pop Factor …” for top comedy.

Promoter says Jamaican rapper Bounty Killer barred from entering Trinidad for concert

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Authorities barred Jamaican rapper Bounty Killer from entering Trinidad for a weekend show where he was scheduled to appear, a concert promoter said Sunday.

IOC says American TV rights for 2014-2016 Olympics now less valuable after Rio de Janeiro win

COPENHAGEN — The cost of Chicago’s defeat in its bid to host the 2016 Olympics will be felt in the value of the next U.S. broadcast deal.

Argentine folk legend Mercedes Sosa dies, inspired opponents of Latin America’s dictatorships

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the “voice of Latin America” whose music inspired opponents of South America’s brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died Sunday, her family said. She was 74.

Doctors: Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa in ‘pharmacological coma,’ organs weakening

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Doctors say Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa’s health is deteriorating further at the Buenos Aires clinic where she is in critical condition.

Rio erupts in celebration after announcement the city will host 2016 Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO — Nearly 50,000 people cheered in celebration when Rio de Janeiro was announced as host of the 2016 Olympics, jumping and shouting in a Carnival-like party on Copacabana beach.

Actor Benicio del Toro calls for Puerto Rico gov’t to halt planned monkey-breeding center

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Benicio del Toro is asking Puerto Rico to halt a planned monkey-breeding facility, arguing the primates would suffer “extreme animal abuse.”

Famed Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa hospitalized, breathing with a respirator

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa was in critical condition, breathing on a respirator after suffering liver, kidney, heart and breathing problems. Her son said it’s a time for prayer.

3 reasons why each 2016 bid city can win; 3 reasons why each can lose

Friday’s vote by the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen to select the host city for the 2016 Summer Games is too close to call.

Chile’s president celebrates birthday with folkloric dance _ with gutsy librarian

SANTIAGO, Chile — President Michelle Bachelet has celebrated her 58th birthday by dancing a traditional Chilean cueca — with a library worker who plucked up the courage to ask.