Notorious Belfast prison reinvented as distillery
By Ian Graham BELFAST | Thu May 17, 2012 12:39pm EDT BELFAST (Reuters) – A notorious Belfast prison that held Irish Republican Army inmates during the worst of the city’s sectarian strife is to be transformed into a Whiskey distillery as Northern Ireland tries to reinvent itself and its struggling economy. A wing of the [...]
Treasures of Italy’s Marche region on show at Vatican
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY | Thu May 17, 2012 7:58am EDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – If you wanted to admire masterpieces of religious art by Titian, Raphael, Lorenzo Lotto, Guido Reni, Carlo Crivelli and other masters in museums around Italy’s central Marche region, it could cost you a few weeks of time and a [...]
Virginia, Florida have most well-read cities in US: poll
NEW YORK | Wed May 16, 2012 3:38pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York and Boston may strike many as more intellectual but Alexandria, a small urban area in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C., is the most well-read city in the United States. Alexandria was one of three Virginia cities on the Amazon.com list [...]
English the preferred language for world business: poll
By Chris Michaud NEW YORK | Wed May 16, 2012 9:58am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Workers whose jobs require them to interact with people in foreign countries say that English is the dominant language of business, according to a new poll. More than one quarter of employees in 26 countries around the world told [...]
Afghan woman pushes for rights from behind the wheel
By Miriam Arghandiwal KABUL | Tue May 15, 2012 12:09pm EDT KABUL (Reuters) – The morning after the Taliban fell Shakila Naderi shed her head-to-toe burqa, sat behind the wheel of a car for the first time and asked her husband to teach her how to drive. Now Kabul’s only female driving instructor, she teaches [...]