Ali's legend floats like a butterfly through a hometown festival

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - A celebration of Muhammad Ali's life continued on Wednesday in the late boxing champion's hometown of Louisville, where a daylong "I Am Ali" Festival passed his legend on...

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Costumes and a proposal as 'Warcraft' comes to China

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Hundreds of "Warcraft" fans celebrated the release of a new film based on the popular video game in Shanghai on Tuesday night, with costumes as well as a marriage proposal.

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New fossils may settle debate over 'Hobbit' people's ancestry

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils unearthed on the Indonesian island of Flores may resolve one of the most intriguing mysteries in anthropology: the ancestry of the extraordinary diminutive human...

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At Ramadan, migrants in Europe dream of family and comfort food

BERLIN/BASTAD, Sweden/ATHENS, (Reuters) - As Ramadan began in Germany on Monday, Syrian asylum seeker Khairallah Swaid said he would pray for a reunion with his wife, who is stranded at a camp in...

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Chicago zoo's baby camel 'Alexander Camelton' a social media star

(Reuters) - A month-old Bactrian camel named Alexander Camelton at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo has become a social media star.

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More to Jamaica than 'anti-gay Gestapos': Man Booker winner Marlon James

TREASURE BEACH, Jamaica (Reuters) - Living as a closeted gay man in Jamaica drove novelist Marlon James to such despair that he once wrote he knew he had to leave "in a plane or a coffin."

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London art gallery showcases Calais migrant stories

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When British art curator Sue McAlpine first visited makeshift migrant camps in Calais on Frances's northern coast, the sight of families living in muddy tents...

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