Scottish businessman Cesidio Di Ciacca yearned for the hometown of his ancestors so much, he set about buying it all up and reviving it as a thriving wine destination.
Global mobility company ECA International has released its annual list of the world's most expensive cities to live in, and once again Hong Kong has landed at the top of the list.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has an "Alert -- Level 2" advisory for travelers to "practice enhanced precautions" because of the spread of monkeypox, a rare disease that's a cousin of smallpox.
The quality of Europe's bathing waters has improved dramatically in recent decades, and a new report released this week by the European Environment Agency (EEA) reveals that almost 85% of its bathing sites now rank as "excellent."
Thousands gathered for festivities, including a star-studded concert at Buckingham Palace and the Queen's birthday parade, to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.
Sailing solo across the world's largest ocean once is enough of an achievement. But 83-year-old Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie has done it multiple times.
After coming across a blog on renovating a ruined French chateau, Mark Goff and husband Phillip Engel, sold their home in California, relocated to France and purchased the historic Château Avensac.
The roots of French cooking run deep. The foundations of the country's culinary empire were laid as early as the mid-1600s when chef François Pierre La Varenne penned his hugely influential "Le Cuisinier François" recipe book, emphasizing regional and seasonal ingredients, highlighting complementary flavors, and beginning to document its terms and techniques.
A large trove of ancient bronze statues and well-preserved sarcophagi discovered in Egypt's Saqqara were revealed to the public on Monday, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement.
Faster, cleaner, greener and packed with advanced technology; rail is the only transport mode currently well placed to provide the backbone of our future mobility needs.
In 1986, American businessman Richard Bass landed in the record books by becoming the first person to climb the "seven summits," the highest peaks from each continent. On that list are some of the most iconic mountains in the world: Denali in Alaska, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and of course Mount Everest.
It's not Tex-Mex and it's not Mexican. New Mexican cuisine is unique as goes back millennia. Today, the food is a fusion of Native American, Spanish and Anglo tastes.