KANAZAWA, Japan: A box of six premium shiitake mushrooms, weighing about 500 grams in total, fetched a record 350,000 yen (about $2,200) during...
KANAZAWA, Japan: A box of six premium shiitake mushrooms, weighing about 500 grams in total, fetched a record 350,000 yen (about $2,200) during...
OKAYAMA: The Manekineko Art Museum in Okayama City is Japan's first museum to especially exhibit beckoning cats, which are said to bring good...
New York: From "A Farewell to Arms" to the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor, thousands of artistic works will enter the public domain...
Doha, Qatar: As 2024 comes to a close, Hamad International Airport (HIA) marks a significant milestone—its 10th anniversary. The World's Best Airporthas earned...
The violin’s quaver steadied and swelled through the gloomy concrete staircase, escaped through the wire mesh and soared over the packed-dirt playground before...
Washington: Santa Claus has no need to worry about recent mystery drone sightings over New Jersey, a US Air Force general said Tuesday,...
London: With its twinkling Christmas fairy lights and nostalgic array of vintage toys, the window of one London "shop" never fails to enchant...
As soon as we booked the Eurostar from London to Paris, my two friends and I began scouting the most important element of...
During her time as a high school teacher, Alison Pappavaselio says she saw firsthand the negative impacts of unfettered technology access. When the...
Paris: They don't advertise and they are largely unknown to the general public but niche perfumes are able to command prices of hundreds...
Jakarta: In the mid-19th century, Dutch colonial officials climbing an Indonesian volcano spotted an ancient statue meant to serve as protection against misfortune,...
A few years ago, Sophie Kihm, a baby name expert and consultant in Chicago, was working with an expectant mother to curate a...
In 2019, Lauren Asher began watching the first season of the Netflix docuseries "Drive to Survive.” The show - which chronicles the globe-trotting,...
Belo Horizonte, Brazil: Lacador, a small establishment in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, has got its uptown funk on following a surprise...
Lisbon: Salt cod has long been a national staple in Portugal, where it is said there are as many recipes for this humble...
Síkinos, Greece: Outside the school of one of Greece's smallest inhabited islands, Sikinos, two massive trucks have braved an eight-hour sea voyage to...
Tokyo: Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami told his alma mater Tuesday that he was far from being a model scholar, as he collected...
As a boy, Bruce Pascal reveled in testing the limits of his Hot Wheels. He might squeeze a firecracker into one of the...
