LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) – An internal memo at Yahoo Inc
introducing a ban on working from home has sparked a
debate on whether remote working leads to greater productivity
and job satisfaction or kills creativity and is just a chance to
slack off.

Working remotely has become commonplace due to technology
and has been welcomed particularly by people with young families
or those facing long and expensive commutes.

LONDON (Reuters) – Flamboyant and wild, Adam Ant stormed the British pop scene in the 1980s dressed as a pirate and highwayman, but crashed out of the music world in 1995, exhausted and battling mental illness.

The British singer/songwriter spent these years raising his daughter and in and out of psychiatric care with bipolar disorder before slowly re-emerging with concerts leading to the release this year of his first album in 18 years.

LONDON (Reuters) – Flamboyant and wild, Adam Ant stormed the British pop scene in the 1980s dressed as a pirate and highwayman, but crashed out of the music world in 1995, exhausted and battling mental illness.

The British singer/songwriter spent these years raising his daughter and in and out of psychiatric care with bipolar disorder before slowly re-emerging with concerts leading to the release this year of his first album in 18 years.

LONDON (Reuters) – The world of opera, faced with budget cuts and wanting to raise appreciation of opera, has launched its own annual international awards, unveiling a shortlist of finalists in 23 categories.

The Operas, which will be presented at a ceremony in London on April 22, are the brainchild of Opera Magazine and British businessman Harry Hyman.

LONDON (Reuters) – Turbo-charged parents still running their university-aged children’s schedules, laundry and vacations could be doing more harm than good with a study on Wednesday showing these students were more likely to be depressed and dissatisfied with life.

Researcher Holly Schiffrin from the University of Mary Washington in Virginia found so-called helicopter parenting negatively affected college students by undermining their need to feel autonomous and competent.

LONDON (Reuters) – A review belitting award-winning British novelist Rachel Cusk’s memoir of her bitter divorce as “poetic whimsy and vague literary blah” has won an annual prize for most competently trashing a literary work.

The “Hatchet Job of the Year”, run by British literary criticism website The Omnivore, was set up to promote integrity and wit in literary journalism and is awarded to the “angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review”.

LONDON (Reuters) – A review belitting award-winning British novelist Rachel Cusk’s memoir of her bitter divorce as “poetic whimsy and vague literary blah” has won an annual prize for most competently trashing a literary work.

The “Hatchet Job of the Year”, run by British literary criticism website The Omnivore, was set up to promote integrity and wit in literary journalism and is awarded to the “angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review”.

LONDON (Reuters) – German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk have always aimed to combine music and art so performing at London’s Tate Modern was the ideal venue for them after three years of planning.

Kraftwerk took over the 800-capacity Turbine Hall at the art gallery on Wednesday to play the first of eight consecutive shows, each focused on a different album, starting with “Autobahn” from 1974 and ending with “Tour de France” from 2003.

LONDON (Reuters) – Actress Mariel Hemingway hopes going public in a documentary about the curse that has plagued her family will finally dispel any mystery around their battles with addiction and raise awareness about mental illness.

For years, Hemingway ignored the drinking, addiction and mental illness that coursed through her family, leading several relatives to take their own lives.

LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Celebrity chef Delia Smith, who
was inspired by the awfulness of British food, has decided to
quit television, saying entertainment had overtaken education in
modern cookery shows.

Smith, 71, the UK’s best-selling cookery author with more
than 21 million copies sold, told fans at a trade show that she
was leaving TV after about 40 years to focus on a new venture,
the Delia Online Cookery School.