By Jonathon Burch HATAY, Turkey | Fri May 18, 2012 6:30am EDT HATAY, Turkey (Reuters) – With thousands of refugees now taking shelter in Hatay after fleeing violence just across the border in their Syrian homeland, Turkey’s panhandle province has been in the news over the past year for all the wrong reasons. But spend [...]
Read MoreThu May 17, 2012 10:36pm EDT (Reuters) – The old joke that California’s Bay Area is just like a bowl of granola because it is full of flakes and nuts may have to be tweaked slightly. A report released on Thursday found that residents of the major cities ringing the San Francisco Bay are tops [...]
Read MoreBy Leslie Gevirtz NEW YORK | Thu May 17, 2012 6:39pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Greek winemakers are not pricing their wares in drachmas – yet. The winemakers, visiting New York as part of an international promotional tour, doubted Athens would leave the euro-zone even after Fitch Ratings Agency downgraded Greece’s sovereign debt on [...]
Read MoreBy Timothy Pratt LAS VEGAS | Thu May 17, 2012 8:35pm EDT LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A former Nevada state Senator who ran on a Christian family values platform has posed in a bikini as a write-in candidate for the men’s magazine Maxim’s “Hot 100″ contest. The magazine will announce results of the annual contest [...]
Read MoreNEW YORK | Thu May 17, 2012 6:11pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin hasn’t yet figured out how to put the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on the silver screen, but he is certain it’s not going to be a straightforward biography. Sorkin, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of [...]
Read MoreBy Atish Patel NEW DELHI | Thu May 17, 2012 3:20am EDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Seema, a husband and father of two, gets ready for another night of work on the streets of the Indian capital, placing two halves of a yellow sponge ball into empty bra cups. The 33-year-old then plucks out the [...]
Read MoreBy Jin Kyu Kang SEOUL | Thu May 17, 2012 7:12am EDT SEOUL (Reuters) – Unlike his colleagues at a Korean city office, Choi Chang-young dreads the end of each workday, when he is forced to return to his empty, echoing house. “I feel a deep sense of loneliness since neither my wife nor my [...]
Read MoreBy Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY | Thu May 17, 2012 7:58am EDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – If you wanted to admire masterpieces of religious art by Titian, Raphael, Lorenzo Lotto, Guido Reni, Carlo Crivelli and other masters in museums around Italy’s central Marche region, it could cost you a few weeks of time and a [...]
Read MoreBy Jason McLure LITTLETON, New Hampshire | Wed May 16, 2012 2:23pm EDT LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Bad news for waffle lovers. Historic warmth in March slashed this year’s U.S. maple syrup output as much as 40 percent as sugar maple trees, which need freezing temperatures at night to sustain sap production, dried up [...]
Read MoreNEW YORK | Wed May 16, 2012 3:38pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York and Boston may strike many as more intellectual but Alexandria, a small urban area in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C., is the most well-read city in the United States. Alexandria was one of three Virginia cities on the Amazon.com list [...]
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