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MADRID - Officials in northern Spain's Pamplona have called off the famed San Fermn bull-running festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic. Pamplona Mayor Enrique Maya ...

BANGKOK - Authorities in Thailand are imposing fines of up to 20,000 baht ($640) for people who fail to wear face masks in public in 48 provinces, as the government struggles to cope with a new wave o...

The Biden administration is expanding a program to feed as many as 34 million schoolchildren during the summer months, using funds from the coronavirus relief package approved in March. The Agricultur...

LOS ANGELES - Chlo Zhao has made history at the 2021 Academy Awards, becoming the first woman of colour to win best director and just the second woman to win the award. Zhao won the directing Oscar fo...

The premise for an interlude at the Oscars was simple: Questlove played a song and a chosen celebrity had to guess if the tune was ever nominated for or won an Oscar. The game, run by "Judas and the B...

LOS ANGELES - Youn Yuh-jung,'' the feisty grandmother in "Minari," captured more than her grandson's heart. Youn, a prominent film and TV actor in her home country of South Korea, won the best support...

LOS ANGELES - Pixar's "Soul" has won the Oscar for best animated feature. Pixar has now won the award 11 times in the 20 years since the category was established. The film stars the voices of Jamie Fo...

LOS ANGELES - Winners so far at the 93rd Academy Awards: Original screenplay: "Promising Young Woman," Emerald Fennell Adapted screenplay: Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, "The Father" Internat...

Actor and director Regina King acknowledged the hardships of the past year during an opening straight out of the movies for the 2021 Oscars. "It has been quite a year and we are still smack dab in the...

NEW YORK - Family members, friends and clergy members dressed in white and red honoured the life and faith of hip-hop icon DMX at his homegoing celebration Sunday in New York. Religious leaders and mu...