BRESCIA, Italy | Thu May 17, 2012 3:42pm EDT BRESCIA, Italy (Reuters) – John Elkann, the media-shy chairman of one of the world’s biggest car companies, got behind the wheel and demonstrated his driving skills on Thursday in Italy’s legendary four-day Mille Miglia rally race. The 36-year-old head of Fiat, which now control Chrysler and [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts | Thu May 17, 2012 12:14am EDT CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday named Rafael Reif, an electrical engineer born in Venezuela who has been the university’s provost since 2005, as its 17th president. Reif, 61, replaces Susan Hockfield, the first female president of MIT, who announced in [...]

By Atish Patel NEW DELHI | Thu May 17, 2012 2:02am EDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Seema, a husband and father of two, gets ready for another night of work on the streets of the Indian capital, placing two halves of a yellow sponge ball into empty bra cups. The 33-year-old then plucks out the [...]

By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES | Wed May 16, 2012 6:39pm EDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Britney Spears hasn’t even taken her seat as the new judge of “The X Factor,” but the pop icon is already getting a lesson in the media glare of live, talent show television. Spears had barely wrapped up an [...]

By Miriam Arghandiwal KABUL | Tue May 15, 2012 12:09pm EDT KABUL (Reuters) – The morning after the Taliban fell Shakila Naderi shed her head-to-toe burqa, sat behind the wheel of a car for the first time and asked her husband to teach her how to drive. Now Kabul’s only female driving instructor, she teaches [...]