Britons gather at dawn to remember Diana 20 years after her death

LONDON (Reuters) - Fans of Princess Diana gathered at dawn at the gates of Kensington Palace on Thursday to celebrate the life of a woman who transformed Britain and its royal family when she died 20...

Bees on the roof are all the buzz in Slovenia's capital

LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - When you visit the main congress center in Slovenia's capital you may get more that the usual conference: how about a jar of honey?

Revelers hurl tomatoes in Spanish festival amid higher security

BUNOL, Spain (Reuters) - More than 20,000 revelers threw 160 tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes at each other in Spain on Wednesday in an epic, annual food fight known as the "Tomatina".

Lost in Translation: Thailand offers course for women who marry foreigners

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is offering a free course to help Thai women cope with the highs and lows of interracial marriage and avoid potential scams or falling victim to human trafficking when...

The bells, the bells: Notre-Dame's crumbling gargoyles need help

PARIS (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Paris is on a 100 million euro ($120 million)fundraising drive to save the crumbling gargoyles and gothic arches of the storied Notre-Dame cathedral.

A mammoth engineering feat, Scotland's third Forth bridge is ready to open

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The Queensferry Crossing, the third bridge in as many centuries to link Edinburgh and the north of Scotland over the River Forth, was formally completed on Monday, concluding...

LVMH looking to turn historic Paris grounds into theme park

PARIS (Reuters) - Luxury goods giant LVMH is to lead a 60 million euros ($72 million) plan to turn the capital's 157 year-old Jardin d'Acclimatation into one of France's top three amusement parks.

At Maltese festival, climbing the greasy pole is part of the fun

ST JULIAN'S, Malta (Reuters) - For more than a century, locals in the small Maltese town of St Julian's have celebrated their patron saint by running up a steeply angled log, smeared with lard,...

London's Notting Hill Carnival remembers Grenfell Tower fire

LONDON (Reuters) - Notting Hill Carnival, the biggest street party in Europe, fell silent for a minute on Sunday to remember the more than 80 people who were killed in June in an apartment block fire...

For tsar's great-grandson, Russia needs a strong leader

ZURICH (Reuters) - A century after the October Revolution that ended his family's three-century reign of Russia, Hans Georg Yourievsky believes the country needs a tough leader.

Revelers hurl tomatoes in Spanish festival amid higher security

BUNOL, Spain (Reuters) - More than 20,000 revelers threw 160 tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes at each other in Spain on Wednesday in an epic, annual food fight known as the "Tomatina".

Lost in Translation: Thailand offers course for women who marry foreigners

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is offering a free course to help Thai women cope with the highs and lows of interracial marriage and avoid potential scams or falling victim to human trafficking when...

The bells, the bells: Notre-Dame's crumbling gargoyles need help

PARIS (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Paris is on a 100 million euro ($120 million)fundraising drive to save the crumbling gargoyles and gothic arches of the storied Notre-Dame cathedral.