LITERATURE-SPAIN: Plagiarism Case Reawakens “Authors’ ” Nightmare

á- The plagiarism allegedly committed by a popular Spanish journalist in her first novel has, as a secondary effect, exposed the reach of "ghostwriters," those who author works that are signed by others.

CULTURE: St. Kitts Celebrates Newest World Heritage Site

Constructed in the 100 years between 1690 and 1790, Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts' new world heritage site, is being celebrated as one of the finest remains of the rich past of the people who helped form the Caribbean society of today.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-JAMAICA: One Woman’s Search for Her Roots

There are over 300 persons in the latest edition of the Jamaica telephone directory with the surname Lindo. It is highly unlikely all are related, but many are descendants of one Jewish family that settled here in the late 18th century.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ NIGERIA-MUSIC: New Shrine to Immortalise Afro-Beat Legend

Legendary Afro-beat musician Fela Anikulapo- Kuti would have been 59 years old on Oct. 15 had he not died from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) on Aug. 2, 1997.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-JAPAN: Neglected in Life, Indian Wartime Labourer Honoured in Film

It has the same title as a Hollywood movie starring action star Clint Eastwood, but the new documentary by noted Japanese director Hideki Nakamura is hardly about some gruesome murder like the one investigated by Eastwood's character.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-CUBA: Groundbreaking Work in Theme and Technology

Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás is putting the finishing touches on a new film, which promises to take on such controversial issues as the disintegration of families on the island caused by the waves of emigration during the last few decades.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/EXHIBITION-COLOMBIA: Botero’s Rotund Figures Find a New Home

The corpulent human figures that have made Colombian artist Fernando Botero famous have arrived in his hometown, Medellín, in the department of Antioquia, to form part of the permanent collection of the recently inaugurated Antioquia Museum.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-US: A History Lesson in Hip-Hop

When deejay Grandmaster Flash was asked recently if he had any idea in 1970 that he would help launch a new mass cultural movement just by experimenting with his record player, he answered bluntly: "No."

FILM-PERU: Life of Marxist Ideologue Makes it to Big Screen

Peruvian filmmaker Federico García marks his return to the commercial movie circuit with 'La Yunta Brava' (the wild team), a film about the youth and ideological development of influential writer and Marxist political leader José Carlos Mariátegui.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-SOUTH ASIA: Ordinary Folk Battle Gender Barriers

Consider what happened to "Kusuma" (not her real name), a 21-year-old woman living in rural Sri Lanka. She was assaulted and gang-raped by five men one October morning as she was on her way to work.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-BRAZIL: A Magical Guitar Falls Silent

Baden Powell, a Brazilian guitar genius who enchanted the world - especially Europe, died in late September leaving behind a vast musical legacy.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-SRI LANKA: Ancient Tribe Made a Living Museum

Seated on a mat spread on the floor of his small mud-wall-and-thatch-roof hut, in this eastern Sri Lankan forest village, the tribal chief grumbles that things are no longer the same.

MUSIC-TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Pan’s Birthplace Stages First World Festival

p Trinidad and Tobago is getting ready to welcome nearly 30 leading steelbands from Europe, North America and the Caribbean to its first ever World Music Steelband Festival.

/REPEATING FOR POINTS NEEDINGMUSIC-BRAZIL: A Magical Guitar Falls Silent

Baden Powell, a Brazilian guitar genius who enchanted the world especially Europe died in late September, leaving behind a vast musical legacy.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Reggae to Find Home in Modern- Music Museum

Three years ago when US businessman Paul Allen came up with the idea of a high-tech music museum, it was supposed to be a shrine to his boyhood idol, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix. The Experience Music Project (EMP) opened in June and there are big plans for reggae's history to be a part of it.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MEDIA-ARGENTINA: Reality-TV on the Rise,

Television in Argentina is undergoing a facelift as more and more programmes do without the shine of the super-famous or the artificial staging, and are sustained by average citizens, whose sincere attitudes imbue the shows with a whole new range of meanings.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ MUSIC-NIGERIA: Central African Rhythm Takes

A crowd of students and some unemployed youths gather in front of a car-wash centre near the University of Lagos here. Shuffling their feet they wriggle their waists and move to the beat of the Makossa music blaring from overhead loudspeakers.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-INDIA: Lotus Threatened Despite Religious Value

Airline pilots on the smog-obscured landing approach to the Indian capital, are grateful for the guidance provided by the shimmering giant white lotus.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/THEATRE-PERU: Footlights Shine on Works by and for Women

Two plays written by Peruvian women - and recently premiered in Lima's theatres - "Sueño de una noche dominical" (A Sunday Night Dream) and "Una especie de ausencia" (A Sort of Absence), explore the female universe.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-MEXICO: Hollywood Stars Vie for Frida Kahlo Story

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, who died 46 years ago, is the centre of a Hollywood dispute between actresses Salma Hayek and Jennifer López, who both want to make a film about the artist's difficult life.

/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-COLOMBIA: FARC Rebels Reclaim Music and Literature

The cultural movement rooted in the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has gathered strength over the last year and a half, alongside the fits and starts of peace negotiations between the rebels and the government.