Wanted: A dog to marry Lucky and help others in need

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:49:51 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a midtown Manhattan hotel, a very special bride-to-be named Lucky, decked out in a frilly pink dress, recently celebrated her impending nuptials with friends over champagne,...

Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Hatay, Turkey

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:17:35 -0400

HATAY, Turkey (Reuters) - With thousands of refugees now taking shelter in Hatay after fleeing violence just across the border in their Syrian homeland, Turkey's panhandle province has been in the...

Travel Picks: Top 10 graduate destinations

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:46:00 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - You're in the final phase of revision before exams and the glorious release from academia. Soon it will be time for graduates to celebrate the successful completion of their...

Fiat's Elkann gets behind the wheel for Mille Miglia

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:06:48 -0400

BRESCIA, Italy (Reuters) - John Elkann, the media-shy chairman of one of the world's biggest car companies, got behind the wheel and demonstrated his driving skills on Thursday in Italy's legendary...

LVMH looks to burnish Vuitton mystique and buoy sales

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:55:29 -0400

PARIS (Reuters) - French luxury giant LVMH is struggling to retain its image as exclusive and high-end creators of $10,000 alligator handbags and goat-lined fur coats, while opening enough stores and...

Italian university switches to English for success

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:39:17 -0400

MILAN (Reuters) - Italians do it better. At least that's what the T-shirts say. The problem is in what language?

Kenya's 2012 tourism earnings to dip on euro crisis, attacks

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:10:24 -0400

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's white sandy beaches look set to have fewer visitor footprints meandering over them this year.

Storied battleship making final port call in Los Angeles

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:51:59 -0400

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the perilous Atlantic waters to a historic meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in the...

Scottish jewelry show commemorates Norway tragedy

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:58:38 -0400

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The 77 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway last year have been commemorated in a display of specially commissioned jewelry which opened on Friday at the National...

Sorkin says Jobs movie won't be straight biography

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:47:09 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin hasn't yet figured out how to put the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on the silver screen, but he is certain it's not going to be a straightforward...