Category: Lifestyle

(This Jan. 19 story corrects spelling of Gudnadottir and of Todd) BERLIN (Reuters) – Golden Globe-winning Icelandic musician Hildur Gudnadottir, 37, usually lives a quiet life in Berlin, but is about to see a lot more of Los Angeles’ red carpets as nominations come flooding in for her score for Todd Phillips’ film “Joker”. On…

UYO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Michael Sunday is delighted, if a little stunned, as he admires his new right hand: a silicone glove-like prosthetic meant to help him return to normal life after he lost three fingers in a car accident a year ago. The prosthetic has a hyper-realistic feel and, unusually, is dark in color,…

PARIS (Reuters) – Sleek double-breasted suits, luxurious patterns and silky fabrics mingled to celebrate tailoring in a timeless menswear collection at the Christian Dior catwalk in Paris on Friday. For one of the most anticipated shows of the week, Dior erected a gigantic tent in the middle of Place de la Concorde, overshadowing its Egyptian…

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Three centuries-old pre-Columbian sculptures that since the 1970s had been in Germany have been returned to Mexico voluntarily, officials said Thursday, the latest repatriation of cultural antiquities that has recently been gaining steam. The clay artifacts each feature sculpted faces and hail from ancient Mexican cultures that flourished in the present-day…

KABUL (Reuters) – Fahima Mirzaie set up a dance school for women in the Afghan capital last year, hoping to help her students fight depression and find inner peace in a war-torn country where dancing is widely considered taboo. Some 20 young Afghan women have signed up for classes to learn “Sama” – a dance…

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi, who has said he will take paternity leave here in a rare move for a Japanese man, announced on Friday the birth of his first child: a boy. Koizumi, son of charismatic former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi and seen as a future leader himself, said on Wednesday…

PARIS (Reuters) – The flagship restaurant of celebrated French chef Paul Bocuse, who died nearly two years ago, has lost its coveted Michelin three-star rating for the first time in over five decades. Bocuse combined a passion for food with a nose for self-publicity that brought him fame and fortune beyond his native France. “Although…

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – While drinking in a nightclub in Mozambique in 2015, Kamal Moukheiber had an idea: a luxury cigar made not in Cuba, but in southern Africa. The Lebanese former banker glanced at a customer puffing at what looked like an imported cigar and thought: “What’s wrong with Africa producing cigars?” “Africa has been…

PARIS (Reuters) – Structured suits ruled the runway at Louis Vuitton’s fashion show in Paris on Thursday, as menswear designer Virgil Abloh opted for a sharp dresscode in his version of heaven, parading models through a decor of blue skies and fluffy white clouds. Called “Heaven on Earth”, the collection marked a further shift away…

HAVANA (Reuters) – New Orleans and Cuban brass musicians paraded joyously through Havana on Wednesday as part of the city’s annual jazz festival and in defiance of the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken U.S.-Cuba relations. On a warm, blue-skied Caribbean day, passers-by joined in the conga or danced on the balconies above as the trumpeters,…