OVER 200 spectators gave a thundering applause in the yard of the Bank Indonesia Museum in the Old Town zone of West Jakarta when the Tugu Cafrinho keroncong group finished the opening song Gatu Matu ...

Make the most of the glut of bank holidays and your quiet work inbox to escape to the sun-drenched tropics. Whether you want ...

From Boone, North Carolina to Wild Coast, South Africa, these undertouristed destinations are 25 of the best places around ...

Sekarpandan got his bodily form after taunting Semar, who wanted to marry Sekarpandan's older sister Sudiragen. In the fight ...

The money being discussed is for three things: Helping poor nations switch from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy; helping ...

An hour’s drive south-west of Paris in the Chevreuse Valley lies the Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay, a 12th-century Cistercian ...

The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old. Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...