Eastern Europe
WARSAW, Poland - Officials say a cornerstone has been laid for a museum honoring the late Pope John Paul II at his family home in southern Poland.
VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Bosnia and Serbia restarted an old steam-powered train Saturday in an effort to increase tourism in a region that was devastated by war in the 1990s.
PEREDELKINO, Russia - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia's most renowned living poet, has given his house along with an extensive art collection to the state as a museum.
WARSAW, Poland - The director of Poland's National Museum says it is opening an exhibition on gay and lesbian love designed to provoke discussion on the place of homosexuals in this conservative and overwhelmingly Catholic country.
SHANGHAI - Crowds at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai have subsided, which is good news for travelers planning a visit during its six-month run.
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