By Ros Krasny BOSTON | Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:48pm EDT BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts opens a large new contemporary art wing this weekend in what curators say reflects a more forward-looking tilt to the city’s arts scene. Anchoring the launch is the temporary exhibit, “Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture,” surveying four [...]
Read MoreBy Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON | Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:40am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – London kicked off the British leg of the fashion calendar on Friday, with designers eager to lift the gloom on the high street with the glitz of the catwalk through some of the edgiest shows in the season. As summer draws [...]
Read MoreLONDON | Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:37pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Whether you call them a restroom, loo, lavatory, toilet, or “the facilities,” they are always an important part of being on the go. With this in mind the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com) have compiled this list of the “World’s Top [...]
Read MoreBy Alexandria Sage PARIS | Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:24am EDT PARIS (Reuters) – The city of glamour, grande cuisine and the ghosts of the guillotined is one of Europe’s most beautiful. Welcoming some 28 million visitors a year, Paris offers everything from some of the most famous museums and restaurants in the world to [...]
Read MoreBy Paula Rogo NEW YORK | Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:55pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Post-vacation blues loom large as 34 percent of Americans who took a summer holiday say they are struggling with melancholy after they return home, according to a new survey. Travel website TripAdvisor, which polled 1,400 Americans, said for 64 [...]
Read MoreBEIJING | Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:48am EDT BEIJING (Reuters) – First it was ping pong, then it was pandas. Now Tokyo and Beijing are turning to pop group diplomacy in an effort to soothe often tense ties. Despite the plethora of political problems between the two countries, China has warmly welcomed Japanese pop group [...]
Read MoreCHICAGO | Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:06pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) – The royal wedding of Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton this spring was one for the history books — and the record books, too. According to the latest edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, released on Thursday, the April 29 ceremony at [...]
Read MoreBy William Maclean LONDON | Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:29am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Writing authoritatively about a spy service is hard for an outsider but Britain’s is a particularly tough case. Fact must be sifted from a big body of popular fiction, much by novelists with an intelligence background including James Bond author Ian [...]
Read MoreBy William Maclean LONDON | Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:29am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Writing authoritatively about a spy service is hard for an outsider but Britain’s is a particularly tough case. Fact must be sifted from a big body of popular fiction, much by novelists with an intelligence background including James Bond author Ian [...]
Read MoreBy Michelle Nichols NEW YORK | Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:41am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Polished sporty styles and neon citrus colors emerged as strong trends at New York Fashion Week, which ends on Thursday, for spring/summer 2012 as consumers look for more versatile fashion. Dubbed urban sport and athletic chic, the designs featured [...]
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