Berlin red light district turns into art hub
Fri, 25 May 2012 13:23:31 -0400

BERLIN (Reuters) - A shabby area of Berlin best known for its curb-crawling prostitutes and drug dealers is recovering some of the Bohemian allure of its glory days in the 1920s as low rents and its...

Hungarian tiger cubs a dream come true for zookeeper
Thu, 24 May 2012 10:12:44 -0400

ABONY, Hungary (Reuters Life!) - As a child, Hungarian zookeeper and owner Tibor Toth dreamed of having lots of animals around him and his life was forever changed the day he petted a tiger cub.

Travel Postcard: 48 hours in eclectic Bucharest
Fri, 25 May 2012 05:13:40 -0400

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Got 48 hours to explore Romania's capital and its eclectic mix of western architectural ideas, eastern imagery, 20th century totalitarian megalomania and buzzing nightlife?

Crisis-hit Europeans freeze summer holiday plans
Thu, 24 May 2012 14:58:11 -0400

MILAN (Reuters) - Europeans are putting holiday plans on the back burner this summer as the crisis hits "sun belt" economies in Greece, Spain and Italy, a study showed on Thursday.

Greek burglars cash in as savers flee banks
Thu, 24 May 2012 11:22:22 -0400

ATHENS (Reuters) - Andreas and Emilia Karabalis, who are both 80, feared their bank in Greece would collapse, so they withdrew their 80,000 euros ($100,000) savings and stashed it at home for safety.

Story by Pultizer Prize winner serialized on Twitter
Fri, 25 May 2012 13:00:40 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialized in 10 installments on Twitter, according to the magazine.

Book Talk: Author explores Jewish sect she left
Thu, 24 May 2012 07:49:40 -0400

TOKYO (Reuters) - Like the characters of her book, Anouk Markovits grew up inside the strict Satmar Hasidic Jewish sect, where reading novels was frowned upon and she was expected to wed in an...

Bounty hunter on the trail of Arab Spring loot
Thu, 24 May 2012 08:56:34 -0400

GENEVA (Reuters) - Growing up in Africa, he used to hunt buffalo, a passion that still serves Geneva-based lawyer Enrico Monfrini well. His dogged pursuit of ill-gotten assets has made him the...

Church of England nears vote on women bishops
Thu, 24 May 2012 15:22:51 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England paved the way on Thursday for a final vote on women bishops to go ahead in July, but supporters angry at last-minute concessions to traditionalists who favour...

Dig "proves" Bethlehem existed centuries pre-Jesus
Wed, 23 May 2012 07:33:50 -0400

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli archaeologists said on Wednesday they had discovered the first physical evidence supporting Old Testament accounts of Bethlehem's existence centuries before the town...