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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Prince Charles, Britain's heir-to-throne, has a woolly idea or two about how vintage clothes, recycling and the fashion industry can help protect the planet.
BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A German company that fired a man for the theft of 1.8 euro cents (two U.S. cents) worth of electricity had no grounds for sacking him, a court ruled, dismissing the firm's appeal against his reinstatement.
MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana will stop the distribution of its two main lines at London shopping temple Selfridges after reports of a dispute over space in the department store chain, the designers said on Thursday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed the case against a former U.N. employee accused of biting a U.N. security guard after complaining of nepotism at the world body.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters Life!) - Forty new paintings by American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan go on show this weekend in Denmark, but museum-goers will hardly find "Blowin' in the Wind" or references to other famous lyrics in the pictures.
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Canadian parents are more lenient with their children than mothers and fathers in France and Italy, according to a new study.
BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A German girl who wanted to avoid the hassle of house-hunting in Berlin and meet new people plans to sleep on a different stranger's sofa every night for the duration of her stay -- 90 days.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - Police arrested an 82-year-old man after he bit and kicked officers who had arrived to mediate in a dispute with a neighbor over a domestic pet.
NANTES, France (Reuters Life!) - French police who stopped a 79-year old man Wednesday discovered that he had been driving without a license for nearly 60 years.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scotland's government announced on Thursday that its planned minimum price for alcohol would be set at 45 pence per unit, meaning a bottle of wine would cost at least 4.23 pounds ($6.52) and a bottle of whisky 12.60 pounds.
BURBANK, California (Reuters) - A booming market of tweens is changing the landscape of online games.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - With Japan suffering its worst heatwave since records began in 1898, haunted houses or "obake yashiki" are doing a roaring trade as the traditional summertime venues to cool off.
BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org (http:\\www.hbr.org). Any opinions expressed are not endorsed by Reuters.
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - A school principal has come under fire after making his primary school students replace a "gay" Kookaburra sitting in an old gum tree with a "fun" bird in the classic Australian song.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Scandinavian airline SAS is planning the world's first same-sex wedding in the air.
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - An intact Roman lantern made of bronze, believed by experts to be the only one of its kind in Britain, has been unearthed in a field by a metal-detecting enthusiast.
LONDON (Reuters) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday he could have not have imagined what he called the "nightmare" that unfolded in Iraq but still did not regret joining the U.S.-led invasion.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A British airplane en route to Poland was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany after a 56-year-old woman spilled a hot cup of tea on herself, German police said on Wednesday.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The chattering line of Brazilians, many straining under the weight of their duty-free bags, stretched back hundreds of feet after a recent Monday night flight from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro.
DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair will sign copies of his memoir in Dublin on Saturday but customers can forget about getting a personal dedication or even a photograph from the author.
GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters Life!) - Plans to build a casino on the edge of America's most famous Civil War battlefield have sparked a modern-day battle that resonates beyond southern Pennsylvania.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece banned smoking in all indoor public places again on Wednesday in yet another effort to persuade Europe's heaviest smokers to kick the habit.
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - For many people, the city of Bangalore, also known as Bengaluru, conjures up an image of a metropolis that plays host to the headquarters of some of the world's biggest software companies.
VENICE (Reuters) - If you thought that the world's biggest architecture show would be about buildings, this year's Venice Architecture Biennale has a few surprises in store.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - A number of Dutch colleges are considering legal action against the publisher of a move-in guide for new freshmen, after the company included an ad recruiting students for jobs as online sex workers.
JAKARTA (Reuters Life!) - The Indonesian branch of the Buddha Bar, an international chain of upmarket bars, has been ordered to close because its name caused distress to Buddhists, local media reported on Wednesday.
BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org (http:\\www.hbr.org). Any opinions expressed are not endorsed by Reuters.
BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Villagers in eastern China has been forced by the country's unbending bureaucracy to change their family name as the character is so rare it cannot be typed.
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Some hotels use luxurious spas or spectacular views to attract guests but one hotel in Japan boasts a unique attraction in its star room -- a large, built-in train set.
