Fire swept through a hospital on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia on Wednesday, killing three patients even as others were rescued by neighbors who raced through the flames. Survivors wept for the three men killed at St. Jude Hospital near the small coastal town of Vieux Fort. The ...

Grammy award winning singer Amy Winehouse is on the road to recovery from her drug addiction after an eight-month stay in the Caribbean, her mother said in an interview published on Tuesday. The London-born songstress, who has been plagued with alcohol and drug problems, arrived back in Britain last week from the island of Saint Lucia. Her estranged husband Blake ...

Ruth Padel became the first ever woman Professor of Poetry at Oxford University after beating an Indian poet in an election Saturday which ended an often bitter contest. Padel, a distant relative of Charles Darwin, was elected with 297 votes cast by graduates and academic staff of the prestigious university. Her fellow nominee, Indian poet Arvind Mehrotra, received 129 votes ...

St. Lucia's top tourism official was disappointed British singer Amy Winehouse cut short her performance at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival last week because of heavy rain, but he praised the troubled retro-soul star for bringing buzz to the event. "This has never ...