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  • Old Masters sales soar despite global woes

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 3:44 pm ET  
    Auctioneer Claudia Steinfels brings down the gavel during a Sotheby's... Reuters

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sotheby's hopes that the fervent mood at an auction this week in London of important Old Master paintings will travel overseas when several rare art works will be auctioned next month. Full Story »

  • Sawyer move to evening alters TV news landscape

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 3:25 pm ET  
    Journalist Diane Sawyer moderates a panel discussion at the Clinton... Reuters

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Diane Sawyer is changing the landscape of American broadcast television news and is likely hoping history won't repeat itself when she becomes the second woman to solo anchor a major evening news program. Full Story »

  • Club Med moves upmarket strategy into China

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 12:46 pm ET  

    PARIS (Reuters) - France's Club Med aims to drive forward its shift upmarket next year with plans to enter China, after its new strategy helped fiscal 2009 profit at its holiday villages inch higher despite the economic downturn. Full Story »

  • DNA tests could solve mystery of Caravaggio's death

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 11:49 am ET  
    A gallery attendant poses for photographers as he stands next... Reuters

    ROME (Reuters Life!) -The mystery surrounding the death of Baroque master Caravaggio may soon be resolved thanks to new DNA tests -- as long as the right body can be found. Full Story »

  • Chinese opera face-changing: it's a kind of magic

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 11:42 am ET  
    A combination photo shows an actor performing face-changing with... Reuters

    CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese performer He Hongqing can change his facial expressions, and make up, on stage in a flash, but it's not due to skills learned at drama school. Full Story »

  • France hands back fragments of Egyptian murals

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 11:06 am ET  

    PARIS (Reuters) - France handed back four fragments of an ancient tomb mural to Egyptian antiquities authorities on Friday and President Nicolas Sarkozy will return the fifth piece next week, the French culture ministry said. Full Story »

  • Museums coming to life in rebuilt Chechnya

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 11:04 am ET  
    Adam Satuyev, founder of the "Donde-Yurt" ethnographic... Reuters

    URUS-MARTAN, Russia (Reuters Life!) - Clad in a shaggy white ram's wool hat and sporting a matching beard, museum founder Adam Satuyev says tiny Chechnya is undergoing a cultural revival after decades of war. Full Story »

  • Cheesy French calendar promotes farm-fresh fromage

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 11:01 am ET  
    Pieces of French Roquefort blue cheese are displayed in a shop... Reuters

    PARIS (Reuters Life!) - They are soft, round and all in the best possible taste - the cheeses that is, not the pin-up girls promoting them. Full Story »

  • Holidays without hassles in destination clubs

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 10:23 am ET  

    NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Having lived in Europe and the United States and with family in England, British-born Emma Campbell and her husband were toying with the idea of buying a second home but couldn't decide where. Full Story »

  • It's the thought that counts -- even in January

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 8:27 am ET  

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Large numbers of cash-strapped British shoppers are thinking of putting off buying their Christmas presents until January when the sales kick in, according to a survey on Friday. Full Story »

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