Lifestyle

News Hour: Bored with palm-fringed beaches and turquoise seas? Then the gigantic oil platforms of the North Sea beckon. The first ever “rig-spotting” cruise just ended off the coast of Norway, and those onboard the four-day...

News Hour: Traditional mud brick tower houses have always been a source of pride to Yemenis, and over a year into a devastating civil war, they are also providing some much-needed jobs in the ancient capital...

News Hour: Dutch men and Latvian women are the planet’s tallest people but Iranian men and South Korean women have grown the fastest in the last century, according to the largest ever study of height around...

News Hour: China’s state television CCTV broadcast footage showing a tiger attacking a woman at a Beijing wildlife park on Saturday (July 23), in an incident that left one dead and one injured. CCTV broadcast surveillance...

News Hour: To some it may be an imagined sport, but for the players at the Quidditch World Cup on July 24, the competition was very real. The sport played by young witches and wizards in...

News Hour: Security concerns after killings in Germany, coupled with Islamic elements in a new production of Richard Wagner’s opera “Parsifal”, created a nervous opening for the annual festival dedicated to the composer in Bayreuth on...

News Hour: Britain’s Prince Harry has spoken about how he regrets not talking sooner about the impact of the death of his mother, Princess Diana. Diana died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, when...

News Hour: Cuba may be one of the world’s least connected countries but that is not stopping the Japanese subculture of animated movies, manga comics and video games from spreading feverishly among its youth. More than...

News Hour: Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov has landed safely in a field on a private property in West Australia after setting a world record for circumnavigating the world solo in a hot air balloon. The 64-year-old...

News Hour: Hungry diners queued up at a small, modest street food stall in Singapore on Friday to get a taste of the restaurant’s local delights worthy of a coveted Michelin star. Hong Kong Soya Sauce...