Mary Rajkumar, the deputy business editor at The Miami Herald, will join The Associated Press as assistant international editor, working on special projects and series. Her appointment was announced Tuesday by AP International Editor John Daniszewski.Rajkumar will be based in New York, the headquarters of...

Mary Ellen Solt, who used letter and word arrangements to enhance the meaning of a poem and was a leader in the "concrete poetry" movement, has died. She was 86.Solt died June 21 in Santa Clarita after a stroke, her family said.Her most popular work,...

Hone Tuwhare, the first Maori poet to be published in English and one of New Zealand's most celebrated verse writers, has died. He was 86.Tuwhare died Wednesday in a home for the elderly in the southern city of Dunedin. He had been in poor health...

Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take video clips. Now, they can take a university course.Cyber University, the nation's only university to offer all classes only on the Internet, began offering a class on mobile phones...

Explores the period of English literature English literature the period dating from 1660 to 1700, the Restoration Age or the age of Dryden. Provides political, historical and social background detail. Discusses major literary contributions during this period.