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Prize-winning Los Angeles architect Thom Mayne sets his sights on Paris — with a design for a 984-foot-tall office building aimed at bringing life to a bleak part of the city of light.

The New York publishing world is buzzing about The Savage Detectives, a novel by the late Chilean author Roberto Bolano that was published almost a decade ago.

Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday in Moscow. He was 80.

One highlight of San Diego’s summer season is thoroughbred racing at the Del Mar track. But what fans don't see and might not know is that after the race, injuries can prompt prized horses to be euth

David Halberstam, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, died in a car crash Monday in California. He rose to prominence during the Vietnam War and went on to dissect many of the institutions of America in the second half of the 20th century.

Journalist David Halberstam died early Monday at 73. He was in a car crash near San Francisco. As a young reporter in Vietnam for The New York Times in the 1960s, Halberstam accused U.S. military briefers for giving misleading, overly encouraging accounts of the war.

David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash early Monday, a coroner said. He was 73.

A festival of student plays, a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, and a new play by Eve Ensler make their way onto San Diego stages this month.

When New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson went to Sudan to broker a peace deal, he went as a private citizen, and with the blessing of the State Department. This week, President Bush blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria. Former presidential envoy George Mitchell discusses freelance diplomacy.

Hundreds of middle and high school students showed off their award-winning science fair projects at Balboa Park on Friday. KPBS reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.