Dubai: A rare gold watch once owned by Egypt's King Farouk is expected to fetch $400,000 to $800,000 when it auctions this week...
Dubai: A rare gold watch once owned by Egypt's King Farouk is expected to fetch $400,000 to $800,000 when it auctions this week...
PARIS: Alain Robert, sometimes known as the "French Spiderman" for climbing skyscrapers world worldwide, is still defying gravity at the age of 55....
Lyon, France: The fossilised skeleton of an unidentified type of dinosaur is set to be auctioned in Paris in June, and could fetch...
Singapore is the world’s most expensive city for the fifth straight year in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Worldwide Cost of Living report,...
London: The world-famous British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who died on Wednesday at the age of 76, was known as much for his...
Melbourne: Decked out in brightly-coloured costumes and watched on by thousands of cheering spectators, competitors carrying homemade flying devices leapt off a platform...
Islamabad: Engulfed in a blizzard at 6,000 metres, Denis Urubko screamed into the vast darkness on Pakistan's "killer mountain" -- then, through the...
Sydney: A message in a bottle written 132 years ago and found on an Australian beach by a group of walkers including the...
COLUMBUS: After 10 years in hotel management, Khaled Bahgat grew accustomed to defusing tense situations involving out-of-control banquet hall parties. Often, he had...
Paris: French fashion brand Lacoste on Wednesday swapped the crocodile logo on its shirts for the first time in its history for 10...
Hong Kong: An extremely rare Qing Dynasty bowl -- one of only three known to exist -- is expected to fetch US$25.6 million...
Karachi, Pakistan: When British colonial rulers hastily left South Asia at Pakistan's painful birth in 1947, the ensuing chaos and violence meant little...
New York, Published 12 years ago, best-selling and Pulitzer-prize winning book "The Looming Tower" remains a definitive account of US intelligence failures that...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., James Dean's cherry-red jacket from "Rebel Without a Cause" is expected to bring up to $600,000 when it goes...
New Delhi: Picking perfumes can be hard. Be specific beforehand to save time while choosing fragrance notes, say experts. Abdulla Ajmal, Consulting Perfumer...
Sydney: A small Australian town that claims to have created the mullet, the "short on top and sides but long at the back"...
Cernosice, Czech Republic: The toy cars, double-deckers, stuffed toys and pillows on his bed are meticulously ordered into neat rows, but Matej Hosek...
Ile-Ife, Nigeria, She's been described as "the African Mona Lisa", the subject of a long-lost series of three paintings by the artist considered...
