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As more people reconsider how they travel on a warming planet, a small but growing contingent in Europe wants to switch from high-emission, short-haul planes to more climate-friendly sleeper trains .

In a world where speed and convenience have been the siren song to consumers, there’s a movement toward buying more mindfully, sustainably, “slowly.” You've heard of slow fashion . Slow food. Slow travel.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When director Peter Farrelly set out to make what became the genre-defining rom-com “There’s Something About Mary” more than 25 years ago with his brother, Bobby, he knew it might take some convincing for a studio to open the purse

The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Japan’s Riken Yamamoto, who earns the field’s highest honor for what organizers called a long career focused on “multiplying opportunities for people to meet spontaneously, through precise, rational

NEW YORK (AP) — Children's writer Kate DiCamillo is known for beloved stories like “The Tale of Despereaux” and “Because of Winn-Dixie,” about kids and animals trying to navigate the world and make emotional connections.

TORONTO — A modern history of eastern and central Europe has won this year's $50,000 Lionel Gelber Prize Jurors awarded the prize to Oxford University professor Timothy Garton Ash, for his book "Homelands: A Personal History of Europe.

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón, is launching her intended signature project in April, which is National Poetry Month.

OTTAWA — The Canada Council for the Arts has named this year's eight winners of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Each recipient will be awarded a medallion and $25,000.

Dozens, maybe hundreds, of Inuit artists have sketched polar bears. Only one is likely to have sketched polar bears sketching people. She may also be the only Inuk to have drawn hunters taking aim at a walrus the size of an apartment block.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An abstract painting by Denmark's Queen Margrethe, who surprised her country by abdicating earlier this year , has been sold at a Copenhagen auction at 160,000 kroner ($23,300) — exceeding the estimated price of 75,000-100,