Archive for October, 2009

Top 10: Celebrities Who Need Moustaches

Friday, October 30th, 2009


Whether it's to make them more manly or just plain badass, these 10 celebrities are in dire need of moustaches.

Prada shortens temporary layoffs as orders rise

Friday, October 30th, 2009

MILAN (Reuters Life!) – Italian fashion house Prada is shortening temporary suspensions for some workers by three weeks after orders for its spring/summer 2010 clothes exceeded expectations by 10 percent.

Giorgio Armani courts Russians with dazzling shows

Friday, October 30th, 2009

MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) – Italian designer Giorgio Armani wowed Russian fashion-lovers with dazzling shows in Moscow this week, banking on a recovery for the world’s fourth largest luxury goods buyer.

Big rise in London City workers’ drug problems

Friday, October 30th, 2009

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Drug problems among workers in London’s financial district have rocketed in the last year because of stresses caused by the recession, according to the founder of a rehabilitation center.

Thank heavens for the downturn? Some people think so

Friday, October 30th, 2009

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – It seems the financial crisis isn’t all doom and gloom: one in four people are glad the world’s economy slumped like it did, because it helped them realize their priorities in life, according to a global survey.

Hedge funds outperform at Hong Kong "fight night"

Friday, October 30th, 2009

HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) – It was the kind of opportunity loss-stricken investors probably wished for in the worst months of the financial crisis: getting a bunch of hedge fund managers in a boxing ring and pummeling them.

Eerie debtors’ jail stars in London Museum revamp

Friday, October 30th, 2009

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Britons feeling the pinch in these hard times can take comfort from the fact that at least they cannot be jailed for owing money these days.

No sex for dead bodies at Singapore’s Body Worlds show

Friday, October 30th, 2009

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) – A controversial exhibition charting life from conception to old age using cadavers has come to Singapore this week — but without the copulating corpses that caused an uproar in Germany.

Heath Ledger music video debuts 20 months after his death

Friday, October 30th, 2009

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – A rap music video directed by the late Australian actor Heath Ledger was posted on video sharing website YouTube on Friday, nearly two years after he died from an accidental drug overdose.

Poet Lord Byron’s letters to friend sell for $455,000

Friday, October 30th, 2009

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – A collection of letters written by the flamboyant British poet Lord Byron to one of his closest friends was sold on Thursday for 277,250 pounds ($455,000), far above the expected price, Sotheby’s said.