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Travel Picks: Top 10 unusual holiday homes for rent

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - For holidaymakers looking for homes away from home, with a twist, travel website TripAdvisor (http://www.tripadvisor.com) has come up with a list of the world's quirkiest vacation rental homes.

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Minimize risks of retirement

WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - Retirement is full of risks. There's the risk of sickness and needing expensive care, or of running out of money or of being divorced or widowed.

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Months of work for 10 minutes: Putting on a fashion show

MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Minutes to go until showtime, and the cool calm that was has turned into a manic frenzy as stylists, makeup artists and hairdressers add the final touches to the models about to strut down the catwalk.

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Rich African gives new clues to Roman Britain

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Tests on the skeleton of a rich 4th century Roman woman found in Britain reveal she was of black African ancestry, a discovery experts said proved the island's multi-cultural origins were much earlier than thought.

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Hollywood North readies for Bollywood West role

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. (Reuters) - Hollywood North is auditioning for the role of Bollywood West.

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Russia's influence on Picasso feted in Moscow

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's influence on Pablo Picasso was celebrated at a new Moscow exhibit on the Spanish painter, sculptor and co-founder of the Cubism movement.

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Affinity travel: The broad trend in niche tours

Whether it's Zumba or food, wine tasting or volley ball, exotic locales or family reunions, there's likely a vacation that caters to it.

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Boozy ape sent to rehab

MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday. An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.