Mamounia hotel reopens in Marrakech (AP)

AP - Winston Churchill invited Franklin Roosevelt here to relax following strategic talks during World War II, and Alfred Hitchcock shot some of “The Man Who Knew Too Much ” in the hotel’s lobby — which has also been a haunt of the Rolling Stones, Charlie Chaplin, Sharon Stone and many other Hollywood stars for nearly a century.

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90 years later, opera’s back on Bourbon Street (AP)

AP - Bourbon Street — where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock ‘n’ roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes — is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard.

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Haunted houses rivaling Holloywood horror flicks (AP)

AP - The towering stone walls of the Gothic prison are scary enough in the daytime.

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Migrating raptors take flight at Pa.’s Hawk Mtn (AP)

AP - Peering through binoculars, Arlene Koch spies something tiny and dark on the horizon.

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Not-so-ordinary Tennessee State Capitol is 150 (AP)

AP - In this city of songs and sequins, it’s not a honky-tonk. Or a recording studio. Or a Grand Ole Opry guitar

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Athens no longer cheap, but bargains exist (AP)

AP - Athens is no longer a discount destination.

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El Morro: History written on stone (AP)

AP - For centuries, Spanish explorers, U.S. Army troops, wagon train emigrants and railroad surveyors carved their names on a huge sandstone outcrop in what’s now a national monument famed for those inscriptions.

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Bears, berries: Olympic park’s High Divide trail (AP)

AP - “Did you see the bear?” the backpacker standing at the side of the trail asked. “He sure saw you.”

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Suite life: SF hotel penthouse gets a facelift (AP)

AP - JFK slept here. So did Prince Charles.

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New network puts Parisians and travelers in touch (AP)

AP - A cure for Parisians’ brusque, haughty reputation may be at hand. Take a Web site, add a hint of anise-based pastis liqueur, a game of petanque and international travelers ready to mingle.

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