Qatar airlines has been named 2015’s best airline in the world in the annual top 100 airline ranking of airline consumer website Skytrax.
Despite the economic slowdown, China experienced a boom in new millionaires last year. That helped push the private wealth of the Asia-Pacific region past that of Europe and close to overtaking North America.
After expelling them more than five centuries ago, Spain has finally opened the path to citizenship for Sephardic Jews. On June 11, the Spanish parliament passed the Sephardic ancestry law, which will allow thousands of people scattered all over the world to obtain Spanish nationality, allowing them to live and work in any country in the European Union.
As he points out the dishes on the lunch buffet at his Manhattan Indian restaurant and mentally recounts their ingredients, Frederick Gomes has to surrender to the evidence once again. From chutneys to curry, dals to the ubiquitous “tikka masala,” almost everything on his menu requires a key element: a green pepper whose import from the Dominican Republic has been banned.
Perhaps as a child, you thought that playing with Lego was all you wanted to do for the rest of your life. (Perhaps you’ve even felt this way as an adult.) The University of Cambridge might have the perfect job for you.
What a difference two years makes.
Malaysian authorities have released four Western tourists who had been accused of angering sacred spirits and causing a 5.9 earthquake after they posed for a picture naked at Mount Kinabalu, in Borneo. They have been charged a fine of $1,300 and sentenced to three days in prison, which they had already served.
As China, long notorious for its appetite for elephant ivory, moves toward halting the domestic processing and sale of the ornamental material, some international wildlife organizations are pointing the finger at another country that shares responsibility for the slaughter of tens of thousands of elephants a year by poachers in Africa: the United States, the second-largest retail market for ivory in the world after China.
Children from less privileged families are more likely to behave altruistically than their wealthier counterparts, according to a study of 74 pre-kindergarten toddlers by the University of California, and published in Psychological Science.
Juan Felipe Herrera, a Mexican-American poet who is the son of migrant farm workers, has been appointed the United States’ first Latino poet laureate by The Library of Congress.
The international tabloid world has long been enthralled by the blunders and the infidelities of the British royal family. But the juiciest monarchical scandals of late have come from the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid, not Buckingham Palace.
London has once again been crowned the most visited city of the world, closely followed by Bangkok. The capital of the afternoon tea, the Big Ben and the Thames will receive 18.82 millions of travelers this year, according to MasterCard’s 2015 Global Destination Cities Index.
Coca-Cola has unveiled its first PET bottle made entirely from plant materials at the Expo Milano, a food technology conference. Instead of fossil fuels and other non-renewable materials, plant bottle’s technology converts sugarcane and waste from the sugar manufacturing process into the materials to make PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottles.
Chiara Paez was found dead in the Argentine city of Rufino. Her boyfriend had beaten her to death and buried the body when he learned she was pregnant. She was 14 years old. Maria Eugenia Lanzetti was a 44-year-old kindergarten teacher in Cordoba with a restraining order against her husband. It didn’t stop him from sneaking into her classroom and slitting her throat in front of her students.
“The Dubai of Latin America” is a nickname often used to refer to Panama City. But far below its sparkling skyline of office towers and apartment buildings, streets pocked with potholes make drivers’ daily life rather bumpy and unpleasant.
With the One World Observatory set to open to the public Friday, EarthCam has released a time lapse, set against stirring orchestral music, that shows how the newest member of Manhattan’s skyline has risen towards the sky over the last decade.
The results are in. El Celler de Can Roca in Spain has been anointed the world’s best new gastronomic destination, according to the much-anticipated annual list of the World’s 50 Best restaurants, just announced at an award ceremony in London. Among the top 10 winners are restaurants like Eleven Madison Park, in New York, and Noma, in Denmark, which falls from the first to third place.
