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WASHINGTON – Film director Stephen Spielberg, singers Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and conductor Zubin Mehta will be honored in December by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. “This year we honor five extraordinary international artists whose abundant contributions to their fields are …

SAN JORGE, Nicaragua – Dusting off a dream that dates back five centuries, Nicaragua wants to build an $18 billion alternative to the increasingly overloaded Panama Canal. Officials are drafting legislation, conducting feasibility studies and lobbying internationally for the project, first considered by Spanish explorers who scanned the Central American …

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Zend, a key supplier of tools used to design open-source software that competes with Microsoft Windows programs, said on Tuesday the two companies have struck a long-term partnership. Bill Hilf, a Microsoft technical strategist, said the Zend deal, a multiyear, multiphase partnership, will …