PARIS (Reuters) – Paris’ famed Moulin Rouge cabaret, the Louvre museum and the Eiffel Tower were among top tourism landmarks that closed their doors on Friday after the government banned gatherings of more than 100 people to curb the spread of coronavirus. The... More »
GHARBEYA, Egypt (Reuters) – An Egyptian masseur plays with fire to relieve his clients’ muscle pain at his spa in the Nile Delta governorate of Gharbeya. Abdel Rehim Saeid, 35, applies the ancient Pharaonic technique, known as the “fiery towel” by starting wit... More »
CAIRO (Reuters) – Alaa al-Habashi was looking for ingredients for a Ramadan feast when he stumbled on an Ottoman-era mansion being used as a slaughterhouse and butcher’s shop in Cairo’s historic Islamic district. “I was blindsided by the beauty,” the U.S.-trai... More »
CAIRO (Reuters) – Alaa al-Habashi was looking for ingredients for a Ramadan feast when he stumbled on an Ottoman-era mansion being used as a slaughterhouse and butcher’s shop in Cairo’s historic Islamic district. “I was blindsided by the beauty,” the U.S.-trai... More »
MADRID (Reuters) – One of Madrid’s hidden cultural gems, up to now only accessible to private guests or art aficionados willing to endure a near three-year waiting list, the neoclassical Palace of Liria will open its doors to the general public from Sept. 19. ... More »
(This December 17 story corrects spelling of surname “Kamara” in eighth paragraph.) By Hereward Holland NAIROBI (Reuters) – Why don’t chickens fly? When did the moon learn to be kind? Those and other mysteries were unraveled by dozens of African storytellers i... More »
A floor mosaic from one of Roman Emperor Caligula's opulent private ships, which was stolen after World War Two, is on its way back to Italy from the United States where it has been recovered from a private collection. More »
FILE PHOTO: People walk past a row of Volkswagen e-Golf cars during the company’s annual news conference in Berlin, Germany March 13, 2014. Picture taken March 13, 2014. When Volkswagen boss Matthias Mueller vowed to reform the carmaker after its emissions sca... More »
A runner falls in front of a pack of bulls during the fourth running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Susana Vera Two people suffered minor injuries but none were gored on Monday on the fourth day of t... More »
A 1913 painting by Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner that was seized by the Nazis as “degenerate art” will remain in a Ludwigshafen museum after the German government and others paid 1.2 million euros to the heir of the painting’s original owner. More »
A girl walks in front of a graffiti painted on the wall of a house located inside the 15th-century complex built by Mameluk Sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbey, in Cairo’s City of the Dead, Egypt February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh On a winding road leading int... More »
Egypt will restore hundreds of coffins dating back thousands of years to the time of the pharaohs as part of a joint American-Egyptian project to document and preserve one of the world’s oldest civilizations, a director of the project said on Tuesday. More »
Mohamed Hagras, 31, performs the ‘Beard of Bee’ before the upcoming Egyptian Agricultural Carnival of Beekeeping in his farm at Shebin El Kom city in the province of Al- Al-Monofyia, northeast of Cairo, Egypt November 30, 2016. Picture taken November 30, 2016.... More »
Boys play a mini soccer game during an event for traditional games at a school in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 1, 2016. Picture taken October 1, 2016. REUTERS/Iqro Rinaldi An increasing number of Indonesians are taking a stand against digital games like Pokemon... More »
SEOUL Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips, announced on Thursday that it plans to adopt a corporate culture akin to a startup, seeking to become more nimble as growth slows. Samsung’s executives wil... More »
