Category: Lifestyle

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The mayor of the Chile’s Easter Island territory conceded on Monday that the British Museum might be a better home for a massive native Polynesian statue taken by British seamen 150 years ago. Pedro Edmunds Paoa said Easter Island had a “thousand” of its iconic statues, known as the Moai, “both buried,…

MILAN (Reuters) – An opera based on the 5th century conquest of Italy drew wild applause on the opening night of La Scala’s 2018-19 season on Friday – not least for President Sergio Mattarella. It was the first time Mattarella, who took office in February 2015, had attended the prestigious first night of shows at…

(Reuters) – U.S. singer Beyonce will perform at the wedding of the daughter of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, along with Bollywood stars, and guests will be flown in on 100 chartered flights in lavish marriage celebrations. Isha Ambani, 27, will marry Anand Piramal, 33, in the financial capital of Mumbai on Tuesday, but the…

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – As if delivering presents to all the world’s 2 billion children while in charge of nine reindeer and a flying vehicle, squeezing down chimneys and entering strangers’ houses weren’t enough, Santa Claus has to contend with a new risk – feeding sharks. The Tropicarium Aquarium in Budapest prepared a festive surprise for…

LONDON (Reuters) – Hattie, Tina and Melvin played a different kind of game of fetch on Thursday when the canines took to a London court for the opening of the Champions Tennis tournament – working alongside ball boys and girls. Arriving on court to the sound of the song “Who Let the Dogs Out”, the…

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) – Most weeks, Roman Redman does a few extra hours in the kitchens of his ribs and burger joint in Saint Petersburg to cook for a less hipster clientele: the city’s poor and homeless. The traditional meat and cabbage soup is ladled into big flasks and driven by volunteers to places around…

BEIJING/JIAXING, China (Reuters) – Several times a week, kung fu teacher Ren Ruzhi enters a ring to spar with a bovine opponent around five times his weight and capable of killing him. Ren’s mixing of martial arts and bullfighting worries his mother, but the 24-year-old has never been hurt. Besides, he says, grappling with a…

LONDON (Reuters) – Architects swapped traditional building materials for sugar and spice to create an edible gingerbread city of the future at London’s V&A Museum, to show that urban planning can be fun, and tasty. The annual exhibition, which runs from Dec. 8 to Jan. 6, showcases buildings by architects, designers and engineers who had…

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A charitable foundation set up by toymaker Lego has granted $100 million to the not-for-profit group behind hit TV show “Sesame Street” to help provide educational toys to children affected by the Rohingya and Syrian refugee crises. The children will receive storybooks, games, videos and puzzles featuring Sesame Street’s popular puppets, the…

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Comedian Kevin Hart will host next year’s Oscar ceremony for the first time, the “Ride Along” actor said in an Instagram post on Tuesday. “I am so happy to say that the day has finally come for me to host the Oscars,” Hart wrote. The Academy Awards are the film industry’s…