Category Archives: Lifestyle
Visitors tiptoe through the tulips in Dutch virus test
LISSE, Netherlands — Finally, after bleak winter months of a coronavirus lockdown, springtime shoots of hope emerged Friday as restrictions were relaxed at a Dutch flower garden and other public venues. Under a government-approved pilot scheme, the wor...
Hackers, glitches mar France’s mass return to online school
PARIS — French children, parents and teachers are battling with internet connection problems across the country after an abrupt nationwide switch to online learning saturated networks and embarrassed the government. Paris prosecutors opened an investig...
Vaccine passports are latest flash point in COVID politics
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans portr...
Italy may be in Easter lockdown, but the party’s on at sea
Italy may be in a strict coronavirus lockdown this Easter with travel restricted between regions and new quarantines imposed. But a few miles offshore, guests aboard the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship are shimmying to Latin music on deck and sipping
The Dutch went first in 2001; who has same-sex marriage now?
AMSTERDAM — Twenty years ago, just after the stroke of midnight on April 1, the mayor of Amsterdam married four couples in City Hall as the Netherlands became the first country in the world with legalized same-sex marriages. "There are two
Pandemic’s third wave hits people in their 20s, 30s, with more illness, and blame
TORONTO — Working age Canadians have been hit hard by the escalating pandemic, and now they're drawing a significant chunk of the blame, too. British Columbia Premier John Horgan and Quebec Premier Francois Legault have been among those to suggest incr...
Better guidance – not shaming – needed around outdoor COVID-19 risk, experts say
Images of friends sitting spaced out on a backyard patio table, or chatting on opposite ends of a park bench are part of a new COVID-19 ad campaign from Britain's National Health Service. The message? If you're going to socialize,
Spanish resorts languish while Madrid hosts Europe’s parties
MADRID — In Madrid, the real party starts at 11 p.m. after the bars close — and curfew kicks in. That's when young, polyglot groups of revelers from Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and, most noticeably, France, join their Spanish contemporaries in
Snowboarders escaped monster avalanche, but not the law
DENVER — Tyler DeWitt and Evan Hannibal were slowly making their way down a windswept slope during a backcountry snowboarding excursion in Colorado last spring when the shallow snow beneath them shifted and broke loose. “Avalanche!” shouted DeWitt. Han...
Research raises questions over delayed second vaccine doses for seniors
TORONTO — More questions are being raised about how long second shots of the COVID-19 vaccine can be delayed for seniors and other immunocompromised people. The federal body that advises how vaccines be deployed said Thursday it's reviewing a Vancouver...
