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WASHINGTON - Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will force unpaid leave for U.S.

WASHINGTON - Facing withering criticism from House Republicans, the director of the National Park Service Tuesday rejected suggestions the agency purposely hyped the negative impact of mandatory spending reductions for political gain.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi's new branch of the Louvre considers no artistic subject to be off limits but will not "shock for the sake of shocking", a top overseer said Tuesday.

GULF SHORES, Ala. - Karen Pery doesn't consider herself a jazz fan. Yet for each of the past four years, she's spent $3,000 and flown nearly 4,000 miles (nearly 6,500 kilometres) roundtrip to attend the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

WASHINGTON - Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will furlough U.S. Park Police officers who guard the nation's monuments.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia - Police have arrested one of four suspects being sought for the armed robbery of sightseers from a cruise ship last week, St. Lucia authorities said Monday.

NOTRE-DAME-DES-LANDES, France - They hurl sticks, stones and gasoline bombs. They have spent brutal winter months fortifying muddy encampments.

PANAJI, India - India's going to have to wait for its first Playboy bunnies.

DALLAS - US Airways began studying a potential merger with American Airlines several months before American filed for bankruptcy protection in late 2011, according to papers filed Monday by the two companies.

JOHANNESBURG - A handler at an elephant park in South Africa was trampled to death while taking elephants out for exercise, the park's owner said Tuesday. The accident happened at around 7 a.m.