In a rare move, the Fujiyoshida city government in Yamanashi Prefecture has recently asked the media to refrain from covering ...

Located between Bolivia and Peru, Lake Titicaca is the world’s highest navigable lake—perched at a dizzying 3,812 meters above sea level. Sacred to the Incas and still home to indigenous communities ...

Gaudí, nicknamed "God's architect," was declared "venerable" by Pope Francis this week, putting him one step closer to ...

Pope Francis has approved the first step towards sainthood for Antoni Gaudi, the modernist architect behind Barcelona's ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on ...

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

Churchill Downs has lined up a series of capital improvements to its namesake asset, planning to spend between $955 million to $1 billion on projects.

Neighboring Thailand, where the holiday is called Songkran, was expected to celebrate with revelry as usual. It sees a mass ...

The ancient Taumadhi Square of Bhaktapur was lively on Thursday, with revelers and devotees congregating to watch the Biska Jatra, which, according to folklore, signals the arrival of the Nepali New ...

New official figures give a sense of the scale of the devastation in Naypyitaw, Mandalay, Sagaing, Bago, and Shan State, but ...

On Wednesday, Bishop met with Foreign Minister Than Swe and other officials at a temporary tented area outside of the ...

This is when peak streaming went boom. In 2018, at the high point of television’s streaming boom, Netflix Inc. NFLX agreed to pay $55 million to a little-known writer and director for a sci-fi ...