Archive for December, 2011
Sweet, sparkly Moscato pops with celebrity props
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES | Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:19pm EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hip-hop artists sing about it, a famous housewife sells it and the wine world is abuzz about Moscato, a sweet, lightly fizzy drink that is the biggest thing to hit the wine business since White Zinfandel. Hip-hop artist Kanye [...]
Screen queen, golf kings get royal honors
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON | Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:01pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – After playing the mother of Queen Elizabeth in “The King’s Speech,” actress Helena Bonham Carter will take part in a real-life royal performance when she receives an honor from the monarch herself. The actress is among close to 1,000 people from [...]
Author has no claim to Ghost Rider character: judge
NEW YORK | Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:34pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) – The rights to Ghost Rider, the motorcycle riding comic book hero whose skull is engulfed in flames, belong to Marvel Comics and not to the writer who dreamed him up, a U.S. judge ruled. Ghost Rider’s first Marvel Comics appearance as a [...]
Monuments vanish, power cut as metal thieves stalk UK
By Mohammed Abbas LONDON | Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:55am EST LONDON (Reuters) – For years a bronze statue of Alfred Salter sat on a bench looking out on a quiet bend of the River Thames, a memorial to a doctor who dedicated his life to a London district once infamous for Dickensian levels of [...]
Americans to travel farther, spend more in 2012
By Dorene Internicola NEW YORK | Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:03am EST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shaky economy notwithstanding, Americans intend to travel farther and spend more in 2012, according to a nationwide poll. Long-haul bookings to Europe, Asia and Australia are up in 2012, comprising 11 of the top 20 destinations for U.S. travelers, [...]
