NEW YORK >> New York and Milan are starting a two-year tourism partnership to encourage travel between the two destinations.

New York tourism officials are in Milan to announce the initiative Monday.

CEO Fred Dixon of NYC & Co., New York’s tourism agency, says the two cities are both centers of business and innovation, and are “perfectly suited” to be partners. The partnership will include promotions in both cities.

About 700 posters promoting New York in winter began appearing in Milan on Friday. Bus shelters promoting Milan will appear throughout New York starting in mid-February.

Museum show spotlights Graham

RALEIGH, N.C. >> A new exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of History chronicles the life of the Rev. Billy Graham in time to celebrate a milestone.

The exhibit, “North Carolina’s Favorite Son: Billy Graham and His Remarkable Journey of Faith,” opens Friday in Raleigh, one day before Graham celebrates his 97th birthday.

The 5,000-square-foot exhibit explores his life as well as a ministry that spanned seven decades. It includes personal memorabilia, interactive displays and multimedia that help bring Graham’s story to life.

Scientists unveil new fossil find

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. >> Paleontologists with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science on Thursday unveiled the first baby Pentaceratops skull ever discovered as hundreds of people lined up to get a look.

Scientists had cut open the giant plaster jacket that protected the skull as it was airlifted out of the desert badlands of northwestern New Mexico and trucked to the museum.

They revealed the shieldlike part of the dinosaur’s skull, some teeth, an arm bone, a rib and what looked like a vertebrae, but museum curator Spencer Lucas said there’s still much work to be done. Now technicians will begin the painstaking work of digging out the fossils from the rock in which they have been encased for some 70 million years.

The process will take many months, but the public will be able to watch from windows that offer a view into the museum’s preparation room.

Hundreds of people, including parents with their children, lined up along the windows during a free public viewing Thursday evening.

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