On any night in Hongu there is likely to be only one cafe operating, thank the gods for Miya Sushi and its magnificent ...

In Japan, there's an interesting reason some green traffic lights look blue and why locals may even refer to the "go" light ...

Let’s take a walk. Walking is to us what flying is to birds – ascent. We don’t have wings but we have legs, and minds that can soar higher than any bird. That walking is good for the body everybody ...

It’s not the first time that my son has vanished into thin air at the first whiff of wilderness. Last time, he was swallowed for hours in a dismal shroud of mist ascending Ben More on the Isle of Mull ...

Travel, the saying goes, broadens the mind. But it's not just the act of travelling itself - it's the planning too.

The Tudor farmhouse has been in the octogenarian’s family since the 1400s — now it’s a glorious riot of high and low, where ...

Meanwhile, up close, on every surface hum endless hypnotic patterns: from arabesque and geometric algorithms on majolica tiles and carvings on heavy maplewood doors to – nearby at old caravanserai ...

CHRISTIANITY today is the world’s largest faith — embraced by more than 2 billion people. From open democracies to closed regimes, every continent has been touched by its influence. Yet Christianity ...

Only one horror film has ever terrorised me so completely that I didn’t sleep at all the night after watching it. It’s at number 37 on the top 50 below, which is an attempt to sort almost 130 years of ...

Opening with Isabel Coixet’s well-reviewed Italian drama “Three Goodbyes,” closing with “Always Winter,” the latest from Goya best picture winner David Trueba, and regaled by works by two of Spain’s ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of ...

Sumo wrestlers posed outside London’s Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, with the sounds of city traffic providing the backdrop ahead of the opening bouts of a five-day tournament. The event marks the ...