The US president might learn that starting wars is much easier than ending them, writes the BBC's international editor.

When you had the amount of cred that Humphrey Bogart had, you could write your drink requests into your movie contracts. Here's what he drank at wrap time.

Irish politician Thomas Gould has become a bit of star in the Caribbean after a video of him speaking in the Irish parliament drew comments for the surprising similarity of his Cork accent to the ...

Florence Nightingale never set foot in India. Yet from a sickbed in London, armed with mortality data and an unstoppable pen, she rewrote the country's sanitary code, slashed soldier death rates from ...

Fowler doesn’t waste time stopping for meals on his cactus expeditions. As dawn broke, a Grateful Dead album played quietly in the background and the men gossiped about fellow succulent lovers who’d ...

Jeff Goldblum discusses his approach to acting along with the idea of masking, as well as Marlon Brando, who he deems a "brilliant genius".

This survival story, “Ten Terrible Days,” first ran in the July 1962 issue of Outdoor Life. I want to say something right at the beginning that has been said 1,000 times before, but I want to say it ...

Amitav Ghosh, in his novel The Hungry Tide, masterfully portrays the Sundarbans as a palimpsest where colonial and ecological ...

In 2017, Rachel Hartigan found herself on the island of Nikumaroro, an uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean.

Those beige boxes were secretly the best classrooms money could buy.

Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...

Punjab has embarked on one of the most ambitious urban infrastructure transformations in its history through the Punjab Development Program (PDP), placing sewerage and stormwater management at the ...