Reuters: Lifestyle

Italians want crucifixes to stay in classrooms: poll

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:44:02 -0500

ROME (Reuters) - Some 84 percent of Italians oppose a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that crucifixes should be removed from Italian classrooms, according to a poll on Sunday.

Brazil student expelled after row over short dress

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:16:12 -0500

SAO PAULO (Reuters Life!) - In Brazil, famed for its tiny bikinis and carefree attitude, a university student has been expelled after violent protests by students outraged at the short outfit she wore on campus.

Quarter of people say capitalism fatally flawed

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:06:34 -0500

LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly a quarter of people across 27 countries worldwide believe free market capitalism is fatally flawed, according to a poll published on Monday to mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Poor health puts older workers off staying: study

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:02:28 -0500

LONDON (Reuters) - Working conditions must be improved for older people if governments and companies are to persuade them to continue contributing to economic growth into their old age, according to Swedish and British scientists.

Yoko Ono looks back on early activism

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:29:10 -0500

NEW YORK (Reuters) - No one knows better than Yoko Ono how far celebrity activism has come in the last 40 years.

Man makes living by selling the shirt on his back

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:51:18 -0500

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso.

Miss England gives up crown over brawl reports

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:34:21 -0500

LONDON (Reuters) - Beauty pageant winner Miss England gave up her title on Friday after reports she had been involved in a nightclub brawl with another beauty queen.

Oxford's revamped Ashmolean can now "do drama"

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:59:48 -0500

OXFORD, England (Reuters Life!) - T.E. Lawrence's Arab dress, an entire Japanese tea house and the best Aegean history collection outside Greece will be star exhibits when Britain's oldest public museum re-opens on Saturday.

Agassi asks for compassion for drug use

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:54:41 -0500

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andre Agassi, mired in controversy after admitting to using crystal meth, pleaded for compassion from his critics in a television interview that will be broadcast on Sunday in the United States.

Louvre plays home to Apple's first French store

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:42:05 -0500

PARIS (Reuters) - Computer giant Apple Inc will open its first French store beneath the Louvre museum on Saturday just two weeks after Microsoft opened a theme cafe to promote its Windows 7 software.