Lifestyle

The Ak-Suu Transverse trail, or AST, explores some of the most beautiful stretches of the Kyrgyz Tien-Shan. It was once only tackled by hardcore hikers willing to haul heavy packs stuffed with days’ worth of tents, food and clothing.

Stretching up 52 metres into the sky, Antalya’s Land of Legends stands around the height of a 16-story apartment building.

A dozen Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks collectively valued at almost half a billion U.S. dollars are going up for auction after sitting unseen for decades in a fabled private collection in South America.

Some meals begin long before the first plate is served. They may start on a mountain road climbing through a remote valley, on board a ferry crossing an unfamiliar sea, or with a flight taken largely because a remarkable table waits at the other end.

An 11-year-old chess prodigy has become the youngest woman grandmaster of all time, after a strong performance at the 46th Chess Olympiad.

One day in 2008, when she was in her early 20s, Jaimie Krems stumbled across Gchat messages between one of her closest friends and her housemate. They’d been written on her own computer, which her housemate had borrowed, and it turned out the two had been talking all about her.

A North Bay woman is sharing the story of how she lost 130 pounds, a weight-loss journey she says took years and required the support of family and friends.

A baby has been born on the remote Scottish island of North Ronaldsay for the first time in more than three decades.

A two per cent fee on a few thousand dollars in investments might not seem like a big deal when you’re building your wealth and seeing your portfolio grow.

Gucci has begun selling new luxury sneaker models labeled “Made in China,” a break with its Italian manufacturing tradition that some industry watchers say could undermine the brand’s high-end image as it races to win back middle-class shoppers.

The typical age a person in the U.S. starts a master’s program is 33, but one Long Island teenager is about to shatter that timeline.

An ancient wall discovered beneath Paris was described as a 'major breakthrough' on Wednesday by France’s culture ministry, with the archeological find possibly confirming the location of the city’s original settlement.

More than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean got an official nod on Wednesday from the Oxford English Dictionary.

It’s been a prison, a citadel, an imperial treasury and desolate ruin. Now a multi-stage restoration project is bring new visitors to the museum and cultural centre at Yedikule Fortress.

Most bus passengers know how annoying it is when a fellow commuter blasts music or has a loud conversation on speakerphone.