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BUNCE ISLAND, Sierra Leone (Reuters) — The ivy-clad ruins perched on a strip of mud in the Sierra Leone river hide a dark past, but have become an unlikely symbol of hope for many African Americans seeking slave forbears.As a departure point for thou...

The Jamaicans in Bermuda are celebrating their country’s 45 years of independence by holding a host of events over the coming months. The first event on the agenda is set to take place at the Bermuda College Cafeteria, on Saturday morning. Jamaican A...

It's billed as the ultimate portrait of our planet.Discovery Channel's "Planet Earth" is an 11-part series with the ultimate global view. Five years in the making, it boasts 200 locations with more than 70 camera operators having spent 2,000-plus day...

NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Campbell has cleaned up her act — by getting down and dirty.The catwalker was released yesterday from a garbage truck garage after completing five days of community service for assaulting her maid. The British supermodel saunter...

What’s on at BIFF today: Event It’s a Wrap: The 10th Annual Bermuda International Film Festival draws to a close with the Wrap Party tonight at Fairmont Hamilton Princess hotel, from 9 p.m. until the early hours. Tickets $85 can be purchased at the ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A then 26-year-old Barack Obama walked down the aisle of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, knelt beneath a cross suspended from its rafters and, as he later explained it, committed himself to God after years as a religious ske...

KEARNY, New Jersey — When the pig is on the roof, people know “The Sopranos” are not far behind.The life-size pig sits on an old boarded-up building that will soon come to life as Satriale’s, a fictional pork store where Tony Soprano and his Jersey c...

BEIJING (AP) — Shops and restaurants atop the Great Wall of China are being given the shove as part of a move to restore the original appearance of the country’s best known historical site.Since the 1950s, more than 30 small commercial outlets from t...

What’s on at BIFF today: Event It’s a Wrap: The 10th Annual Bermuda International Film Festival draws to a close with the Wrap Party tonight at Fairmont Hamilton Princess hotel, from 9 p.m. until the early hours. Tickets $85 can be purchased at the ...

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — G.E. Patterson, the presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ and a minister for almost 50 years, died of heart failure on Tuesday, the church announced. He was 67.The predominantly black Protestant denomination, headq...