Reuters - British actress Kate Winslet lead the pack of People magazine's 10 best-dressed women of 2009, with U.S. first lady Michelle Obama chosen for "best accessible glamour."
Reuters - Sweden, home to a "smorgasbord" that includes items such as meatballs and pickled herring, said Monday it wants to put itself on the gourmet food map with a plan to become "Europe's new culinary nation."
Reuters - A power outage has knocked out the lights and services in a small Angolan town for two months, a local official said on Tuesday, despite the country's multi-billion dollar investments in new hydro-power projects. The outage was caused by a generator malfunction in the town of Quipeio, about 70 km (45 miles) south of the city of Huambo, said Frederico Saude, a local administrator, adding that authorities were still trying to fix the problem.
Reuters - A group of schoolchildren who reared a lamb from birth and named it Marcus has overridden objections by parents and rights activists and voted to send the animal to slaughter.
Reuters - A drunk French teenager narrowly escaped death on Sunday after falling asleep on a railway track and slumbering undisturbed as a high-speed train roared over him, police said.
Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spain's King Juan Carlos appeared to have put their dramatic public spat of 2007 well behind them when they met on Friday, even sharing a joke about the monarch's recently grown beard.
Reuters - German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions.