NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Churchgoers drink and smoke less than adults who spend their Sundays elsewhere but a U.S. study had found it may not be church attendance itself that explains this -- it could be their genes.
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Some 10,000 people gathered at a Irish shrine hoping to witness an apparition of the Virgin Mary on Saturday despite pleas from an archbishop to ignore invitations to the event by a self-proclaimed spiritual healer.
The eulogies, the songs, the crying and the hugging all make David Tseng's funeral virtually indistinguishable from any other such rite on Taiwan -- except he is still alive.
Twenty years after a seismic jolt of history sent it tumbling down, a section of the Berlin Wall has been rebuilt in Los Angeles, offering residents a glimpse of the brutal Cold War frontier that once divided Europe.
The mines and dogs and barbed wire are gone, as are the border guards with orders to shoot to kill, the so-called death strip and, of course, the Berlin Wall itself.
The mines and dogs and barbed wire are gone, as are the border guards with orders to shoot to kill, the so-called death strip and, of course, the Berlin Wall itself.
Shimmering in a tight gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand.
Shimmering in a tight gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand.
Twenty years after a seismic jolt of history sent it tumbling down, a section of the Berlin Wall has been rebuilt in Los Angeles, offering residents a glimpse of the brutal Cold War frontier that once divided Europe.
A stamp that was pulled from circulation the day it was issued because it failed to show Taiwan as part of China fetched a record price at auction in Hong Kong on Sunday.
It was not your usual night at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday, with the White House lit up pumpkin-orange and thousands of little ghosts and goblins trick-or-treating the president of the United States.
It was not your usual night at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday, with the White House lit up pumpkin-orange and thousands of little ghosts and goblins trick-or-treating the president of the United States.
The eulogies, the songs, the crying and the hugging all make David Tseng's funeral virtually indistinguishable from any other such rite on Taiwan -- except he is still alive.
It was not your usual night at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday, with the White House lit up pumpkin-orange and thousands of little ghosts and goblins trick-or-treating the president of the United States.
With spending on luxury goods down across the developed world in the economic crisis, luxury brands are increasingly looking far beyond the chic avenues of New York, London or Paris for revenue.
More than 2,000 children from DC area to trick-or-treat at the White House with the Obamas. It's the ultimate trick-or-treating treasure, that one house on the block that offers the coolest candy and surprises galore.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian high society got an earful of what their riches can obtain this week when a Japanese violinist serenaded them on one of the most expensive violins ever sold at auction.
Thousands of people from Taiwan's gay and lesbian community marched through the streets of Taipei on Saturday to demand recognition of same-sex marriage and equal rights, organisers said.
Five years after Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered by a Muslim extremist in Amsterdam, where half the population is of immigrant origin, the city is grappling with social integration.
Twenty years later it may seem like a foregone conclusion, but one of the chief architects of the fall of Berlin Wall says it faced fierce opposition from both the Soviet military and some Western leaders.
Witches, beware. Mummies, be gone. Halloween may be a celebration of all things creepy and macabre, but a growing number of US communities are shunning traditional ghoulish festivities, seen by some as tainted by association with paganism and the occult.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A major new photography exhibit is built around the idea that the eyes are just as important as the ears for appreciating and understanding rock 'n' roll.
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Tough economic times have hurt Harvard University's public standing in the media over the past nine months, while schools perceived as a safer educational investment have benefited, a research firm said.
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Thousands of Icelanders lined up at McDonald's restaurants to order their last Big Macs before the U.S. fast-food chain abandons the crisis-hit island at midnight Saturday due to soaring costs.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - An enormous robotic figure astride a drill, a sculpture of entwined lovers and the head of American poet Ezra Pound tell the tale of how three artists transformed British sculpture at the start of the 20th century.
MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Italian fashion house Prada is shortening temporary suspensions for some workers by three weeks after orders for its spring/summer 2010 clothes exceeded expectations by 10 percent.
MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Italian designer Giorgio Armani wowed Russian fashion-lovers with dazzling shows in Moscow this week, banking on a recovery for the world's fourth largest luxury goods buyer.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Drug problems among workers in London's financial district have rocketed in the last year because of stresses caused by the recession, according to the founder of a rehabilitation center.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britons feeling the pinch in these hard times can take comfort from the fact that at least they cannot be jailed for owing money these days.
JABAL SAWDA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters Life!) - Saudi Arabia's highest point offers stunning views and a mild climate, away from the scorching desert heat that dominates most of the Gulf Arab state -- but hardly any tourists are around to see it.
HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - It was the kind of opportunity loss-stricken investors probably wished for in the worst months of the financial crisis: getting a bunch of hedge fund managers in a boxing ring and pummeling them.
SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - A controversial exhibition charting life from conception to old age using cadavers has come to Singapore this week -- but without the copulating corpses that caused an uproar in Germany.
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - A rap music video directed by the late Australian actor Heath Ledger was posted on video sharing website YouTube on Friday, nearly two years after he died from an accidental drug overdose.
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - A rap music video directed by the late Australian actor Heath Ledger was posted on video sharing website YouTube on Friday, nearly two years after he died from an accidental drug overdose.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - It seems the financial crisis isn't all doom and gloom: one in four people are glad the world's economy slumped like it did, because it helped them realize their priorities in life, according to a global survey.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A collection of letters written by the flamboyant British poet Lord Byron to one of his closest friends was sold on Thursday for 277,250 pounds ($455,000), far above the expected price, Sotheby's said.
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Bustling and beguiling -- Tokyo is one of the world's biggest, and most influential, cities and a place where old and new sit easily side by side.
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Travelers seeking a quiet place need look no further than the numerous towns around the world that have been abandoned for one reason or another.
DILI (Reuters) - East Timor's struggle against Indonesian occupation may soon become a tidy earner, with the government considering plans to promote key sites of the 25-year fight for independence as part of a tourism campaign.
An Andy Warhol self-portrait hidden in a cupboard for 40 years will reappear at an upcoming auction in New York for more than a million dollars.
Witches, beware. Mummies, be gone. Halloween may be a celebration of all things creepy and macabre, but a growing number of US communities are shunning traditional ghoulish festivities, seen by some as tainted by association with paganism and the occult.
Witches, beware. Mummies, be gone.
Hope that a solution to problematic race relations in the United States has faded a year after Barack Obama was elected the nation's first black president, a poll released Friday has found.
Students are flocking to US universities at record levels, as the recession fuels an enrollment explosion at less expensive two-year colleges, a report said Friday.
South Africa received a record 9.5 million tourists in 2008, up 5.5 percent annually, but is counting on the World Cup to reverse a slowdown felt this year, the tourism minister said Friday.
Inside a small office in Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator, Banzaragchaa Altan-Od fields calls from ship captains and ports around the globe -- an unusual job for someone in a landlocked nation.
Plans to erect a giant staircase to straddle the remains of the Berlin Wall have long been shelved but the city is still an architectural work in progress, 20 years after the hated barrier fell.
Technology and media stars, pundits and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child.
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - People who have a compulsive urge to collect and clutter their homes with junk can partly attribute their problem to genes, according to a British study.
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (Reuters Life!) - After growing up in a Bolivian circus and being confined to a small cage, Simba the lion is getting in touch with his wild side in preparation for a new life in a big U.S. wildlife sanctuary.
