Lifestyle

News Hour: Luxury good maker LVMH said its Louis Vuitton brand had ceased all trading with Vietnamese farms which animal rights activist group Peta alleged mistreated crocodiles, whose skins are used to make handbags and other...

News Hour: Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall opens on Wednesday, delivering one of Germany’s most prestigious 21st century cultural projects – albeit some seven years late and busting its budget. The new landmark, with a red-brick base...

News Hour: Swedish archaeologists have unearthed a dozen burial sites near the southern city of Aswan that date back almost 3,500 years to the New Kingdom era of ancient Egypt, the Antiquities Ministry said on Wednesday....

News Hour: “You’re OK, you’re OK,” Lola Webber, a campaign manager with the Humane Society International (HSI), whispers to a lab-mix puppy, cradling her in a jacket as dozens of dogs bark in nearby cages. The...

News Hour: Paris plans a major boost to its cycling infrastructure and will ban cars from outside the Louvre museum as it steps up its fight against traffic pollution, the mayor said on Sunday. Socialist mayor...

News Hour: About a million and a half barefoot Philippine devotees praying for miracles joined a procession on Monday for a black statue of Jesus Christ being paraded through the old commercial center of the capital,...

News Hour: A collection of handwritten notes by the late Princess Diana, one of which reveals that her younger son Prince Harry was constantly in trouble at school, went under the hammer on Thursday, selling for...

News Hour: Only a year ago, this stretch of the Ciliwung river in Indonesia’s capital was foul-smelling and clogged by a thick layer of floating plastic and other trash. Now, after a clean-up involving hundreds of...

News Hour: Street artist Pegasus has paid tribute to George Michael with a mural of the Wham! singer, who died on last Sunday aged 53. The artwork near a graffiti park in Shoreditch, in east London,...

News Hour: Hundreds of dogs and their owners took part in the sixth annual San Perrestre dog race in Madrid on Friday to raise awareness of pet adoption and abandoned animals. The race was organized by...