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Tollywood is reshaping Indian cinema

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A fast-rising parallel film industry in India is competing with Bollywood's musicals and action-packed films and has taken the world by storm: It's called Tollywood. As Mumbai is to Hindi films — or Bollywood — the southern Indian city of Hyderabad is to movies ...

Americans eye Thanksgiving travel weather

CYPRESS, Texas (AP) — Kenny Beck surveyed the damage Tuesday to his family's two-story home after at least two tornadoes tore through the Houston area, damaging over 100 homes at the start of a busy Thanksgiving travel week that has Americans closely eyeing the weather. "Half my roof on the ...

An ancient Maya myth finds new life in circus company’s performance

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican artistic director Jorge Díaz used to have a unique selection of bedtime stories for his son. Setting aside well-known books like "Pinocchio," they read tales closer to home. Among their favorites was the Popol Vuh, a compendium of sacred Maya myths. "Recalling ...

JFK’s granddaughter reveals cancer diagnosis

John F. Kennedy's granddaughter disclosed Saturday that she has terminal cancer, writing in an essay in "The New Yorker" that one of her doctors said she might live for about another year and criticizing policies pushed by her cousin, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

Wax Diana in ‘revenge dress’ is unveiled in Paris

PARIS (AP) — Princess Diana returned to Paris in wax Thursday as one of Europe's oldest wax museums unveiled a new figure of the British royal in the so-called "revenge dress," decades after her tragic death in the city. The statue was ordered in Paris after the director of the Grevin ...