By Philip Baillie LONDON | Fri Feb 3, 2012 12:34pm EST LONDON (Reuters) – London in the 21st century is not all that different from the heaving Victorian metropolis forever preserved in the novels of English writer Charles Dickens, whose 200th birthday is next week. Fans of Dickens can still walk the same streets of [...]

By Marton Dunai FARKASLYUK, Hungary | Thu Feb 2, 2012 11:52am EST FARKASLYUK, Hungary (Reuters) – For 20 years, Jozsef Bari used to drive his bulldozer out onto the spoil bank every day, leveling and smoothing the spoil from a nearby coal mine in this remote northeast corner of Hungary. On Thursday he went there [...]

By a Reuters staff reporter YANGON | Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:00am EST YANGON (Reuters) – Property agent Kyaw Saw leafs through a thick pile of real-estate listings in Myanmar’s faded commercial capital, Yangon. “Our customers used to be all people from the east — from China, Taiwan and Japan,” said the portly businessman. That’s [...]

NEW YORK | Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:42am EST NEW YORK (Reuters) – Now that we are nearly at the end of the first month of 2012, it’s time to consider new places to explore this year, which is why online travel consultant TripAdvisor (www.tripadvisor.com) has offered a list of its top 15 destinations on [...]

By Jon Herskovitz and Lisa Laventure JOHANNESBURG | Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:23am EST JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The first blow to Martha Netshiozwe’s future came when her parents died of AIDS. The second came when she ran out of money and had to drop out of a South African high school. Netshiozwe, 23, is a [...]