Culture

News Hour: Polish and German treasure hunters have started digging at a site in southwest Poland where they believe a Nazi-era train rumoured to have gone missing is hidden – despite the scepticism of experts. Andreas...

News Hour: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have agreed that women should be banned from wearing the face veil in schools and universities and while driving, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Friday. The move...

News Hour: Arnold Schwarzenegger says being a bodybuilding champion, movie star and governor of California is not enough – he wants people to be fit too. Schwarzenegger was unveiling the inaugural Arnold Classic Asia Multi-Sport Festival...

News Hour: Treasure-hunters said on Wednesday they were optimistic they would find a Nazi-era train believed to be hidden underground in southern Poland as they launched a second day of excavations. According to folklore, the train...

News Hour: Peeping out from her mother’s arms, Embe, a Francois’ Langur, makes her debut at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo where she was born on July 21, in what conservationists hailed as great news for one of...

News Hour: Organizers of the world’s biggest beer festival, Munich’s Oktoberfest, have raised security after Islamist attacks in Germany last month, including banning rucksacks, introducing security checks at all entrances and erecting fencing. Drawing some 6...

News Hour: In a country where some 200 breweries produce well over 1,000 different beers, surely no one is considering brewing their own? Wrong. The Belgian Home-brewers Association, set up in June, already has 60 members...

News Hour: To bid or not to bid. That is the question when the auctioneer sternly warns: “You are about to lose the car.” Crunch time. Whether you are bidding for a $22 million Ferrari, a...

News Hour: “We call on God to bless all these cars and the people who bring them here,” intones the Most Rev. Richard Garcia of the Catholic diocese of Monterey, Calif. “He has blessed us to...

News Hour: For comics at this year’s Edinburgh festival, Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has been a blessing and a curse. “I would like to thank the political establishment for giving me the opportunity...