Fidel in the spotlight: Cuba unleashes media blitz of heartier-looking Fidel CastroHAVANA — Fidel Castro is back — on Cuba’s front pages, at least. Capa’s photograph of a militiaman shot during Spain’s Civil War likely staged, researchers sayMADRID — Robert Capa’s photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman became one of the most famous and enduring images of conflict in the 20th century. Now, Spanish researchers who have studied events surrounding the picture believe it may have been staged. Fans to open ‘Big House’ in Macon as Allman Brothers Band museum in DecemberMACON, Ga. — It’s the place where the Allman Brothers Band founded their Southern rock sound, the place where the song “Ramblin’ Man” was penned and the last place Duane Allman visited before dying in a motorcycle crash in 1971. Accused Khmer Rouge torturer explains policy of killing babies and toddlersPHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s killed babies and toddlers — sometimes by holding their legs and smashing their heads against trees — so they would not seek revenge later in life, the group’s former chief jailer said Monday. Smithsonian photography exhibit highlights President Obama’s inaugurationWASHINGTON — A grinning President Barack Obama leans in toward his wife as they stand in a freight elevator, a rare quiet moment captured with a camera as they hurry from one inaugural ball to the next. From lines and dots to Winston ads, new Met exhibit traces a decade of change in NY art worldNEW YORK — In the 1970s, the art world was enmeshed in a vast series of lines, dots and amorphous figures: The conceptual had taken over. Former Khmer Rouge who worked at Cambodian torture to sell what he says are Pol Pot’s shoesPHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A former member of the Khmer Rouge member said Monday that he is auctioning off a pair of shoes he claims belonged to the group’s late leader Pol Pot to fund a museum about the brutal regime. |