By Leslie Gevirtz NEW YORK | Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:02am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – In a bid to reverse a decade-long slide in sales, some producers of Port wine have gone pink. They have given the sweet red or amber colored Portuguese fortified wine, which is traditionally sipped as an accompaniment to the [...]
By Ethan Bilby LONDON | Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:26pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Greeted by a fanfare of trumpets and guarded by men in plumed helmets, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth celebrated 60 years on the throne with an address to parliament in the medieval hall where one of her distant predecessors was sentenced to death. [...]
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES | Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:28pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Starbucks Corp opened the first store in its new Evolution Fresh juice bar chain on Monday, its biggest move outside coffee aimed at boosting the company’s position in the $50 billion health food sector. The juice bar business is, [...]
By Adam Tanner CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts | Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:29pm EDT CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) – Media executive Oscar Gomez Barbero gave a bleak assessment of his work-life balance. “I feel compelled to be constantly in touch with my work, including weekends and holidays, but you learn to live with this situation,” said Barbero, the [...]
By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING | Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:35am EDT BEIJING (Reuters) – For nearly two hours on Sunday, dissident artist Ai Weiwei was able to maintain a Twitter-like microblog account, briefly raising hopes the Chinese government had relaxed some of its tight control over online expression. Ai’s first microblog post said: “Testing. Ai [...]
