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DURRES, Albania (Reuters) – As singing boomed among the apartment buildings of Albania’s seaside town of Durres, families took to their wrought-iron balconies, clapped in the windows and danced on the rooftops. Albanian people react as a singer performs during … Continue reading Dancing on the rooftops as lockdown concert lifts spirits in Albania
A Fiaker horse carriage is on its way to deliver food packages during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Vienna, Austria April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger VIENNA (Reuters) – Under coronavirus lockdown, one aspect of modern Vienna might look familiar … Continue reading With no tourists, Vienna’s horse-drawn carriages deliver lockdown meals
TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese sake brewery has warned against binge drinking at home as more Japanese are expected to hunker down indoors after the government stepped up calls for people to stay at home to stop the spread of … Continue reading Go easy on the sake when stuck at home, Japanese brewer cautions
LAGOS/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – In a dark ground-floor room in Lagos, dressmaker Kemi Adepoju gazes at a pile of dresses she has made but which cannot be collected due to the lockdown in force to slow the spread of the new … Continue reading Lockdowns: Saving lives, but ruining livelihoods in Africa
Circus clown Tanja Selmer performs for seniors at their retirement home, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Jueterbog, south of Berlin, Germany, April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch BERLIN (Reuters) – A group of clowns who usually … Continue reading Playing to the balcony: clowns entertain German seniors in isolation
WARSAW (Reuters) – A priest in Poland has started taking confession from the faithful in the parking lot of his church in the Polish capital Warsaw, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts one of the most hallowed rituals for Roman Catholics … Continue reading Priest takes ‘drive-in’ confessions as coronavirus spreads in Poland
LIER, Belgium (Reuters) – Belgian chef Nils Proost did not sit back when coronavirus restrictions forced the closure of his restaurant. He is now one of 30 top cooks serving meals to health sector workers across the country. “My sister-in-law … Continue reading With doors closed for coronavirus, Belgian chefs cater for hospitals
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s MAV Symphony Orchestra is taking its music to the streets of Budapest to lift the spirits of residents quarantined in their homes amid the coronavirus pandemic, and it appears to be working. A resident of a … Continue reading Hungarian orchestra cheers locked down Budapest with drive-by music
TOKYO (Reuters) – Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home. The robots, dubbed “Newme” by … Continue reading Robots replace Japanese students at graduation amid coronavirus
FILE PHOTO: Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli poses after a news conference about his work with UNESCO programme “Voices of the World” in Paris, France, November 13, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau MILAN (Reuters) – Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli, one of … Continue reading Opera star Bocelli to sing from empty Duomo in Milan on Easter Sunday
Bryan Regnier is seen with his dogs Sky, a Chihuahua and T’ouva, a mix between Malinois and Groenendael, in Wavre, Belgium April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman PERWEZ, Belgium (Reuters) – A Belgian animal shelter that saves 1,600 abandoned and mistreated … Continue reading Pet adoptions jump for Belgian animal shelter in virus lockdown
LISBON (Reuters) – Parish priest by day, DJ by night: Guilherme Peixoto is not your typical cleric. Roman Catholic Priest Guilherme Peixoto conducts a Facebook Live transmission inside a church at Laundos, a civil parish in Povoa do Varzim, northern … Continue reading Portuguese priest DJs his way through coronavirus crisis
