Bristol skies lit up by hot air balloons at annual fiesta

The night sky in Bristol was lit up by hot air balloons on Thursday as part of the city's annual four-day International Balloon Fiesta.

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'Life worth more than Pokemon,' Venezuela gamers told

CARACAS (Reuters) - A Pokemon Go player hides his cellphone in the carved out pages of a 19th-century French novel, hoping to avoid criminals on Venezuela's notoriously dangerous streets.

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My grandmother’s last months

MILAN (Reuters) - My grandmother's life and mine overlapped for 27 years. I always called her "Nonna."

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Tiny bead from Bulgaria may be world's oldest gold artifact

YUNATSITE, Bulgaria (Reuters) - It may be just a tiny gold bead - 4 mm (1/8 inch) in diameter - but it is an enormous discovery for Bulgarian archaeologists who say they have found Europe's - and...

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Gay Qatari's article provokes backlash over World Cup 'values'

DOHA (Reuters) - An opinion article about life as a gay Qatari has stirred debate about the limits of tolerance in the conservative Gulf Arab country which is due to host the 2022 soccer World Cup.

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Mystery magic spells unearthed with ancient skeletons in Serbia

KOSTOLAC, Serbia (Reuters) - Archaeologists are trying to decipher magic spells etched onto tiny rolls of gold and silver that they found alongside skeletons of humans buried almost 2,000 years ago.

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Lion that bit worker in Canada zoo is spared, back on view

TORONTO (Reuters) - A lion that bit a Canadian zoo keeper on Monday and fractured one of her vertebrae will not be killed and will stay at the zoo where the public can view it, a zoo official said on...

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