By Chris Michaud NEW YORK | Wed May 16, 2012 9:58am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Workers whose jobs require them to interact with people in foreign countries say that English is the dominant language of business, according to a new poll. More than one quarter of employees in 26 countries around the world told [...]
Read MoreBy Olivier Fabre TOKYO | Wed May 16, 2012 8:24am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Like many Japanese women, Koyuki Higashi adores Tokyo Disneyland. So it was only natural that she would want to hold her wedding there, as many other couples have done. “My partner and I just love going to Disneyland, so when we [...]
Read MoreGENEVA | Wed May 16, 2012 3:36am EDT GENEVA (Reuters) – A diamond coveted by kings, queens and princes for centuries, used to reinforce alliances between nations and pawned to pay off royal debts sold for 9 million Swiss francs ($9.57 million) at Sotheby’s in Geneva on Tuesday night. The auction house called the “Beau [...]
Read MoreBy Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU | Wed May 16, 2012 3:45am EDT KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A line of diners, holding on to the shoulders of the person in front of them, enters the pitch dark hall at Nepal’s first blind restaurant, which treats guests to food they can smell, touch and taste but not see. The [...]
Read MoreWASHINGTON | Tue May 15, 2012 7:41pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama poked fun at one of sport’s biggest stars at the White House on Tuesday, remarking that British soccer player David Beckham had a knack for combining athletic prowess with commercial appeal. The quip came as the president congratulated Beckham and his [...]
Read MoreBy Susan Heavey WASHINGTON | Tue May 15, 2012 3:46pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jean Coyle, 67, has a new kind of ministry. The former professor had just begun a career as a Presbyterian minister in Virginia when the economic downturn forced her church to let her go in 2007. After that, she found only [...]
Read MoreBy Miriam Arghandiwal KABUL | Tue May 15, 2012 12:09pm EDT KABUL (Reuters) – The morning after the Taliban fell Shakila Naderi shed her head-to-toe burqa, sat behind the wheel of a car for the first time and asked her husband to teach her how to drive. Now Kabul’s only female driving instructor, she teaches [...]
Read MoreMon May 14, 2012 11:24pm EDT (Reuters) – Children face a growing risk from “button” batteries, according to a U.S. study showing a near doubling of emergency room visits in the past two decades as the objects can cause electrical or chemical burns if swallowed. Most of those emergency room trips are due to coin-shaped [...]
Read MoreBy Cathy Yang HONG KONG | Tue May 15, 2012 3:06am EDT HONG KONG (Reuters) – Could a wine glass shaped roughly like a closed tulip blossom revolutionize the savoring of fine vintages by taming the alcohol in the wine? That’s the hope of French luxury crystal glassmaker Baccarat, which recently began sales of its [...]
Read MoreBy Claire Sibonney TORONTO | Tue May 15, 2012 8:20am EDT TORONTO (Reuters) – Basque chef Andoni Luis Aduriz, the culinary conjurer behind one of the top-ranked restaurant in the world, enjoys a good gag as he lets his imagination run wild at Mugaritz, set in the hills outside San Sebastian in northern Spain. An [...]
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