However, that doesn’t necessarily extend to the drinks – at the bar, the objective is to make guests feel comfortable, even as they push limits at the poker table.There is no ‘iconic’ drink in Las Vegas, says resident mixologist Patricia Richards. The world visits Las Vegas, so people like things that are familiar, or somewhat [...]

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.Most companies want to be the best at what they do. But in the vast majority of business, there is no such thing as the best. Trying to [...]

Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the sole, consensus candidate, billed the vote as a way to move on after months of protests against Saleh’s rule, but the president’s sons and nephews still command key army units and security agencies.Elections are the only exit route from the crisis which has buffeted Yemen for the past year, [...]

The government tried, in the name of austerity imposed by international lenders, to force the end of Tuesday’s public holiday but the country effectively shut down all the same as the Portuguese refused to go without their pre-Lent FestiVals.In Lisbon, streets were quiet and many shops and offices were empty, apart from government ones.Carnival parades [...]

U.S. helicopters fired flares to try to break up as many as 2,000 demonstrators who massed outside several gates to the base, chanting anti-foreigner slogans and throwing stones.Roshna Khalid, the provincial governor’s spokeswoman, said copies of the Muslim holy book had been burnt inside Bagram airbase, an hour’s drive north of the capital Kabul, citing [...]

U.S. helicopters fired flares to try to break up as many as 2,000 demonstrators who massed outside several gates to the base, chanting anti-foreigner slogans and throwing stones.Roshna Khalid, the provincial governor’s spokeswoman, said copies of the Muslim holy book had been burnt inside Bagram airbase, an hour’s drive north of the capital Kabul, citing [...]

The bombardment rained down as International Committee of the Red Cross officials tried to negotiate a pause in the fighting to allow them to bring aid to civilians suffering in horrendous conditions after 18 days of attacks on Homs.In Damascus, security forces opened fire on demonstrators overnight, wounding at least four, activists said, in the [...]

Although, a cradle of talent which has produced such stars as Stella McCartney, McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Paul Smith, London’s place on the fashion map has always been squeezed between New York and its European cousins in Paris and Milan. Mostly, it was considered a place to find emerging designers.We used to come here and [...]

Having seen last year how Somali pirates treat their captives, the 61-year-old is in no hurry to experience it again.It was hell on earth, he told Reuters by telephone from his home in the Croatian port of Dubrovnik.The number of ships seized in the region by Somali pirates fell last year, industry data shows, but [...]

There is a deal. (Khader Adnan) will stop his hunger strike. They will not extend his administrative detention and he will be free on April 17, an Israeli Justice Ministry spokeswoman said.Issa Qaraqe, the Palestinian minister of prisoner affairs, confirmed Adnan would be released on that date and end his hunger strike now.Adnan, 33, has [...]