"Spaghetti didn't originate in Italy. It was introduced to the country by Arab traders in the 8th century. The Italians ...

Photo / Paul Rickard Poverty Bay Polo Club members are on the road for the next two weekends, making the most of whatever fine weather is on offer. Last weekend they competed in Hawke’s Bay Polo ...

Find out how much the Road Tax (Vehicle Excise Duty or VED) will be on your car over the coming year. Cars from 1 March 2001 are taxed according to how much CO2 they emit. Cars registered before 1 ...

It was just after midnight when a phone call from an unknown number woke Dorine Núñez Ávila.

The travel of artistic motifs, styles, and techniques along the Silk Road is closely bound up with the larger context of the travel of beliefs, ideas, and technology. For example, the art of the Silk ...

Global View: The power that a rising and expanding America would inevitably acquire will be seen in Beijing and Moscow—and not only there—as a threat. Photo: Ju Peng/Alexander Kazakov ...

Marco, starring Unni Mukundan in the lead role, surprised everyone with its glorious run at the Indian box office. The film became the actor’s first 100-crore global grosser. In the domestic run ...

History books can only cover so much, and most of us haven’t cracked one open since we were in college. But if you want to ...

Retired Stanford University water polo coach Dante Dettamanti, 80, was killed while riding his bike on Cañada Road on Tuesday, Oct. 25, friends of Dettamani told The Almanac. At around 4:05 p.m. on ...

When we look at paintings, photographs or illustrations of Victorian London, it’s difficult to appreciate just how smelly the city was during the mid-1800s. But what caused it? The answer is not ...

In the 1950s, 58 jazz musicians, including many legends, assembled for a highly ambitious group photo. The Travel Show meets 'van lifers' who sold their homes and now spend their lives on the road.