Arts and Living
Ukraine’s topless fighters plot to storm the Euros
By Richard Balmforth KIEV | Mon May 21, 2012 10:51am EDT KIEV (Reuters) – Anna darts gleefully around the two sparsely-furnished rooms situated through an archway off a steep street that climbs up from Kiev’s Independence Square. She is a general showing off her new headquarters. “This is going to be our training room for [...]
Japan train with "rice balls" to sharpen soccer skills
TOKYO | Mon May 21, 2012 1:12am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan have come up with a novel way of preparing themselves for this year’s London Olympic men’s soccer tournament – training with odd-bouncing triangular ‘rice balls.’ The balls, shaped like the traditional Japanese ‘onigiri’ rice ball wrapped in seaweed, were fired at goalkeepers during [...]
Paris exotic dancers strike, say wages "miserable"
Wed May 16, 2012 12:39pm EDT * Dancers say are asked to work 24 days per month * Cabaret says takes wellbeing of dancers seriously PARIS (Reuters) – Topless dancers at the renowned Crazy Horse night club in Paris have gone on strike, saying they are not being paid enough to take the shirts off [...]
Cloak and dagger world of spies exposed in NYC show
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK | Fri May 18, 2012 1:24pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – The mysterious cloak and dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heros and villains are exposed in a new exhibition, the first to be sanctioned by U.S. intelligence agencies. “Spy, the Secret World of Espionage,” which opens at [...]
Italy "dog and cat tax" muzzled after uproar
ROME | Fri May 18, 2012 3:23pm EDT ROME (Reuters) – A proposal to levy a tax on cats and dogs that stunned Italy on Friday turned out to be all bark and no bite after a wave of popular anger saw it withdrawn on the same day it was made public. Italy was abuzz [...]
