Reuters: Lifestyle

"Cash for Clunkers" wins over U.S. drivers, dealers

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:47:19 -0400

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Having driven the equivalent of six smoke-belching laps of the planet, Tony Metzler figured his aging Chevrolet Blazer SUV would not make a good trade for a new car. Until now that is.

Pittsburgh aims to strut its stuff at G20 meeting

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:17:18 -0400

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Pittsburgh is hoping the world's most powerful leaders will see more than the city's quaint funicular trains and picturesque rivers when they meet here in September.

With demand on the rocks, U.S. airlines offer sales

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:11:28 -0400

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. airlines, plagued by slumping business travel demand, may face lean bookings in the late summer and early fall, and some carriers hope fare sales will spur enough leisure travel demand to fill the gap, experts said on Thursday.

Black Americans turn to DNA to trace African roots

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:22:17 -0400

ATLANTA (Reuters) - To get a sense of the pain many black Americans feel about their broken connection to Africa, just listen to the cries of joy when the divide was bridged by blacks who used DNA to trace their roots to a specific country:

French tourists seen as world's worst: survey

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:06:55 -0400

PARIS (Reuters Life!) - French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as bad at foreign languages, tight-fisted and arrogant, according to a survey of 4,500 hotel owners across the world.

Just A Minute With: Catherine Hardwicke after "Twilight"

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:01:45 -0400

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - With last year's surprise box office smash hit "Twilight," Catherine Hardwicke had the biggest U.S. opening weekend ever, $69.6 million, for a female director of a Hollywood movie.

Russian rail wants to remove Lenin from station name

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:08:09 -0400

MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Russia's railway monopoly triggered a row with Communists when it announced a proposal to strip the name of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, from one of Moscow's train stations.

Rio brothers living on the edge

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:04:04 -0400

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Two brothers are giving a new artistic meaning to "hanging out" as they eat, read and sleep on the side of a building in a bustling part of Rio de Janeiro -- to the bemusement of passers-by.

Drug lord's escaped hippo sighted in Colombia

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:12:57 -0400

BOGOTA (Reuters) - A hippopotamus that escaped three years ago from a zoo built by the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been spotted living in the wild near the Magdalena river, according to a local magazine.

Artist sells his life after bust-up with girlfriend

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:35:56 -0400

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A British artist has decided to sell everything except the clothes on his back after a break-up with his girlfriend.