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When Christopher Columbus made landfall in Puerto Rico during his second trans-Atlantic voyage, in 1493, a young Spanish nobleman, Ponce de León, some scholars believe, was on board. Rumors of hefty quantities of gold brought Ponce de Leon back, in 1508, where he found an islet with an excellent harbor he named Puerto Rico, or Rich Port. This would become the name of the island, while the town was renamed San Juan. He didn't find gold, but was named first governor of the new territory, and when he heard stories from Taino Indians about a magical fountain whose waters would rejuvenate those who drank from it, he decided he would seek immortality. Can we fault him? Today, locals claim the mineral-rich waters at Coamo, about 10 miles east of Ponce in the south of Puerto Rico, are in fact the Fountain of Youth Ponce de Leon sought, though perhaps he didn't soak long enough, as an arrow squelched his eternity in 1521. But that the belief of the fountain's powers still exi...

Puerto Rico is working discretely on the installation of a monumental likeness of Christopher Columbus that will stand as high as the Statue of Liberty . The enclave selected for the historic project is the municipality of Arecibo, on the island's northern coast. The statue - which is 90 meters (295 feet) high, weighs 600 tons and was crafted by Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli - will be erected on one of the beaches there. Businessman Jose Gonzalez Freire, the owner of the land, has taken the reins of the project with which he intends to attract one million visitors a year to the site, which possesses great natural beauty but is far removed from the island's normal tourist areas. The start of the phase in which the pieces of the statue - constructed of bronze in 1991 - will be assembled, which has not received any publicity to date, brings to an end the statue's years of moving all around the territory of Puerto Rico searching for a suitable site. Tsereteli tried to ...

Why? Because he’s a world-renowned National Geographic travel photographer and he’d promised to give a masterclass to the five winners on the paradise island of Puerto Rico. The fabulous trip now over, we spoken to Pina Gruden, one of the winners, to find out what new skills she brought back home . For any aspiring Lumia photo artists amongst you, here are her top tips on how to capture your travel memories with a Nokia Lumia 1020. And as proof that those tips work, each one is accompanied by a gorgeous photo that illustrates it in action. Thank you, Pina! Capture moments “Set white balance to cloudy to get warmer colours, slightly underexpose (EV -0.3) to prevent the sky in the background to be “burnt out” and to set the mood, then just move around to get the composition you like.” Get closer “Set the focus to manual and get closer to your subject. The manual focus is really good in Lumia 1020 and it’s especially useful for close up shots of non-moving objects. Here I was luck...

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Neil Patrick Harris, the host of the Tony Awards show at Radio City Music Hall, performed with cast members of “Kinky Boots” during the opening number on Sunday night. More Photos » The crowd-pleasing Broadway show “Kinky Boots” pulled off an upset victory as best musical at the   Tony Awards   on Sunday night, edging out the onetime front-runner, “Matilda the Musical,” while also scoring wins for Billy Porter’s lead performance and   Cyndi Lauper ’s music and lyrics in her Broadway debut as a composer. Multimedia Slide Show 2013 Tony Awards Notable Night for the Tonys In Performance: ‘Kinky Boots’ ARTSBEAT ‘Kinky Boots’ and ‘Vanya’ Take Top Tonys Dave Itzkoff and Charles Isherwood live blogged the 67th annual Tony Awards. Live commentary, ballot updates, photos from the show and the red carpet can be found here. SLIDE SHOW Tony Awards Red Carpet Looks from Sunday night’s awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall. Related Critic’s Note...

ROME (AP) — A long-delayed restoration of the Colosseum 's only intact internal passageway has yielded ancient traces of red, black, green and blue frescoes — as well as graffiti and drawings of phallic symbols — indicating that the arena where gladiators fought was far more colorful than previously thought.   Officials unveiled the discoveries Friday and said the passageway — between the second and third levels of the 1st Century Colosseum — would open to the public starting this summer, after the €80,000 ($100,000) restoration is completed. The frescoes were hidden under centuries of calcified rock and grime, and were revealed during a cleaning and restoration project over the last two months. The traces confirmed that while the Colosseum today is a fairly monochrome gray travertine rock, red brick and moss-covered marble, in its day its interior halls were a rich and expensive Technicolor. "We're used to thinking that during excavations, archaeological surprises ar...

Communiqué issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paris, 8 January 2013 M. Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will have a meeting at 7.30 p.m. today, Tuesday, 8 January, with Mr Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala Yousafzai. Mr Yousafzai is in Paris to receive, on behalf of his daughter, the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom, which will be presented to him tomorrow, Wednesday, 9 January, at the Maison de l’Amérique latine. Malala Yousafzai, who is currently living in the UK, was the victim of an assassination attempt in October last year because of her determined commitment to the right to education. The meeting will be an opportunity to express France’s commitment to women’s rights and solidarity with Malala Yousafzai in her fight for the right to girls’ education./. Video: Mr Yousafzai receiving the prize on behalf of his daughter Joint communiqué issued by Paris Diderot University, the Institut français and Mazars Simone de Beauvoir Prize for...

Entretien avec Imany, chanteuse française d’origine comorienne. Son album, “The shape of a broken heart”, 2011 propose 12 chansons en anglais "révélant une interprète à part entière, au timbre vocal original, d’une texture sensuelle où semblent se mélanger le corsé du gingembre et la douceur du miel. S’y dessine le portrait intime d’une femme libre, d’une affranchie, qui fait de chaque émotion une offrande, et le gage d’une intransigeante sincérité." www.imanymusic.com/ © Barron Claiborne Née de parents comoriens (d’un père d’Ipwani et d’une mère de Mvuni), mais ayant vécu votre enfance en France et votre jeunesse à New York, comment percevez-vous vos origines comoriennes ? Je les perçois comme miennes. Je ne passe pas la journée à me demander qui je suis. Je le sais et mes origines comoriennes se lisent sur mon visage comme dans mon cœur et dans ma tête. Votre nom de scène signifie « la foi » en Shikomori. Si ce choix se réfère...

Golden Globe voters did it again: a near-perfect spread. “Lincoln” received the most Globe nominations on Thursday, picking up seven. But this Hollywood awards show typically likes to spread its love around — perhaps because that makes for a livelier red-carpet spectacle — so “Argo” and “Django Unchained” were close behind with five nominations apiece. “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Les Misérables” and “Silver Linings Playbook” each received four. In one of the bigger surprises Globes voters plucked a small comedic drama, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” out of awards season obscurity, giving it nominations for best comedy-musical and best actress (Emily Blunt) and actor (Ewan McGregor). The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of about 80 mostly freelance journalists that presents the Globes, even found a way to invite Meryl Streep to its party, handing her a nomination for “Hope Springs.” Golden Globes Analysis of the nominees, more images, reactions and more. Moviedom’s elder state...