KATHMANDU: The first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Mount Everest returned from the mountain on Tuesday pledging to dedicate the rest of his...
KATHMANDU: The first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Mount Everest returned from the mountain on Tuesday pledging to dedicate the rest of his...
Kathmandu: When Norwegian climber Kristin Harila stepped onto the summit of Cho Oyu this month she became the fastest woman to climb all...
M'hamid El Ghizlane, Morocco: In a Moroccan oasis town on the edge of the Sahara, nomads in turbans and tunics are thwacking a...
New York: As people brace for the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence on jobs and everyday living, those in the world of audio...
Ostend, Belgium: Visitors to Belgium's coast are having to get used to North Sea visitors not seen for a while -- dozens of...
Paris: Video game fans around the world flocked to shops on Friday to get their hands on the new edition of "Zelda", one...
Geneva: Christie’s auction house plans to sell the entire collection of 700 jewels, belonging to an Austrian billionaire whose German husband made his...
NEW YORK: Doe-eyed dachshunds, push-faced French bulldogs and other nonsporting breeds circle the hallowed rings. A Bracco Italiano receives a jowl massage. Spaniels...
New York: The next novel from million-selling author Kristin Hannah is a war story set in the 1960s. St. Martin's Press announced Tuesday...
NEW YORK: The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded on Monday to two class-conscious novels: "Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver’s modern recasting of the...
Zaandam, Netherlands: Every morning for the last 42 years, Piet Kempenaar has cast a careful eye over the Dutch sky before releasing a...
Stockholm:Using dozens of cameras set up throughout Sweden's massive forests, weeks-long live broadcasts of elk and other wild animals, or just as often...
Farmingdale, United States: Caitlyn Blanco realized early on that there was no ready template to follow in her quest to become a professional...
Karachi: When Ahmed Rabbani ran out of paint to satisfy his artistic yearnings during 20 years of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, he turned...
Apple Inc. is betting on Korean web comics to give a jolt of life to its Books app. The Cupertino, California-based firm signed...
Tokyo: Like most 10-year-olds in Japan, Maholo Terajima enjoys baseball and video games, but recently his schedule has also included lessons in swordfighting,...
WASHINGTON: Widespread loneliness in the US poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of...
Harare: Pick a portrait of yourself, have the picture hand-carved on a gravestone of your own design -- and pay for the monument...
