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PHILADELPHIA - The city's newest arts festival has returned with a month of music, dance, theatre, visual arts and family activities, all loosely based on the topic of time travel.

CHIMAYO, N.M. - Tens of thousands of pilgrims are expected during Easter Weekend to visit El Santuario de Chimayo, one of the most popular Catholic shrines in the Americas.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - American Airlines won bankruptcy court approval Wednesday to combine with US Airways and form the world's biggest airline. "The merger is an excellent result. I don't think anybody disputes that," Judge Sean H.

WASHINGTON - The National Zoo says breeding season has arrived for the giant pandas after a cub was born last year but died six days later.

PRAGUE - It's a room with a view.

SAN FRANCISCO - Drivers approaching the majestic Golden Gate Bridge experienced something new on Wednesday— no human toll collectors.

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NEW ORLEANS - As this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's detailed lineup was released Tuesday, a month before the gates open, organizers said they are energized and expecting to build on last year's growth in attendance.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - The New York Aquarium has cherished its big-city setting by the sea for half a century. But the ocean that is the aquarium's lifeblood dealt it a shattering blow last fall.

LONDON - Pompeii is the little Roman town that became a byword for sudden, violent death. A new exhibition at the British Museum wants it to be equally famous for raucous, exuberant life.