Fashion aficionados basked in strong late summer sunlight Saturday as runway shows and presentations picked up speed at London Fashion Week.
Montreal, the Canadian city that spawned the global juggernaut Cirque du Soleil, has once again reimagined the circus, this time tapping into the rich animation and video game production talent found in the Quebec metropolis.
South Korean workers fed up with bullying are being increasingly emboldened by a new tougher labor law to secretly record alleged abuse or harassment by their bosses, boosting sales of high-tech audio and video devices.
Gary Kelly and Bruce Munro, reforming drug users from Glasgow, count themselves lucky. They have survived the kind of lethal addictions to substances that have left Scotland with the highest drug-related death rate in the European Union, according to official Scottish statistics.
On October 1st, Nigerians all over the world celebrate their independence from British rule, and the Nigerians of Lebanon were no different as they filled the...
Eleven more women have accused Spanish opera star Placido Domingo of sexual misconduct, allegations that the leading tenor described Thursday as “riddled with...
The longest queues at the Venice Film Festival have not been to see Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt or Scarlett Johansson.
Germans Wednesday celebrated 70 years of the currywurst, a Berlin specialty of sliced sausage smothered in curry powder and ketchup, as they celebrated its...
Two Americans and a Briton won the 2019 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen...
Time to raise a glass to better gut health?
Souraya’s credo may be “the fashion democracy,” but slipping into one of its sequined, feathered gowns is not for the faint of heart.
The smell of Cuban cigar smoke is what hits you first.
Government, enterprise, and technology pioneers discuss gearing up for 5G expansion, the burgeoning ecosystem for AI innovation, and support for local...
Three researchers on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the development of lithium-ion batteries, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
The idea of starting a Russian choir in rural Australia began as a vodka-fueled lark, but five years on a rag-tag bunch of farmers, lawyers and laborers have...
It’s going to be a cruise to nowhere, but that will be just fine with die-hard “Star Wars” fans.
When you shop for a new sofa or another piece of furniture, it’s not hard to envision how it might look in your living room.
Crowds of children bustle around chessboards in Nigeria’s Lagos, figuring out their next moves as part of a project that aims to bring hope in one of the...
Five years ago, for her 27th birthday, Lorelei Bandrovschi gave up drinking for a month on a dare.
A bartender asks Gavin Smith whether he fancies a citrus pale ale or Kolsch-style lager at the Newman Arms - a London pub dating back to 1730.
Vienna has held off Melbourne to retain the top spot on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index for 2019, further strengthening its...
Atop a string of green mountains in Saudi Arabia, a monthlong festival drew a medley of yoga enthusiasts, extreme adventure seekers, tourists and traditional...
Equipped with powerful magnets, history enthusiasts and environmentalists scour France’s rivers, pulling out bits of scrap metal, bikes, scooters and the odd...
Germany’s first giant panda cubs have been born and their mother, Meng Meng, is doing a wonderful job looking after the pink twins who bear no resemblance to...
Tokyo was named the world’s safest city Thursday by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in an index ranking cities’ ability to handle everything from climate...
A century after Germany’s monarchy was abolished, some of its blue-blooded descendants are riding back into battle to reclaim what they see as their royal...
If death is the great equalizer, South Africa’s designer graveyards look like one of the best ends on offer.
Holidaymakers splash in the turquoise waters of the Rosignano Solvay beach in Tuscany and laze on its pristine white sands - most of them fully aware that the...
A team of scientists in the U.S. have managed to reproduce coral in a lab setting for the first time ever, an encouraging step in the race to save “America’s...
In the sleepy Cuban fishing village of Cojimar that inspired Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” locals say they are struggling to catch fish.
Sharks appear to be getting an image makeover as countries move to restrict trade in several species of the oceans’ top predator in a push to extend more...
Clunky games consoles with blobby pixels might not be the latest thing - but they’re still cool even if you’re no longer at school.
Among countless stands of car manufacturers, software developers and engineering universities at Cologne’s video games convention, the sight of fatigue-clad...
Hidden under a lush green canopy of boreal forest in southeastern Canada are 80 fully stocked tents featuring feather beds, silk sheets, electric lighting,...
When one of the world's leading tobacco companies commits to designing a smoke-free future, heads must stop and turn.
In the searing heat of Dubai, some of the world’s top racehorses are being swathed in freezing nitrogen mist to boost their performance.
Cubans and beards have gone hand in hand, or cheek by jowl, since the days of Fidel Castro’s revolution, but after falling out of favor, facial hair is back -...