Mikkel Borg Bjergso, a 38-year-old former high-school science teacher who runs the Danish brewery Mikkeller, stuck his face into a bag of hops and inhaled deeply. It was a rainy February afternoon, […]
Mikkel Borg Bjergso, a 38-year-old former high-school science teacher who runs the Danish brewery Mikkeller, stuck his face into a bag of hops and inhaled deeply. It was a rainy February afternoon, […]
France’s dubbed ‘spiderman’ or ‘human spider’ Alain Robert, scaled another tower, the 152 metre (500 foot) building The Ariane in Paris’ financial district, La Defense. Onlookers and police gathered to watch his […]
A trip to Barcelona in northeastern Spain in the autonomous region of Catalonia to check out the famous Park Güell. Designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, film buffs may remember it from […]
Austria is popular with wealthy Russians. The small town of Kitzbühel is one of the places profiting from its rich guests. Now there are fears that sanctions will scare away the Russian […]
Venice, Italy is one of the most popular tourist destinations on the planet. Architect Sergio Pascolo and his wife Anna are two of about 60,000 Venetians living in the historic part of […]
After staying in death row for more than 45 years, 78-year old Iwao Hakamada has been granted freedom by a Japanese court who also ordered a re-investigation and a retrial of the […]
U.S. media is going bananas over the killings of ‘surplus’ animals in Copenhagen Zoo. [via Frede Jacobsen]
Executions rose by almost 15% in 2013, compared with 2012. Excluding China, at least 778 people were executed worldwide. Nearly 80% of them were in just three countries: Iran, Iraq and Saudi […]
Message from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: Having finished the scheduled events at the Nuclear Security Summit, President Barack Obama, President Park Geun-hye, and I held a Japan-U.S.-Republic of Korea trilateral summit. We […]
By Ilaf Maheedaf AN INDEPENDENT Scotland will have to hand back Shetland and Orkney according to Denmark’s British Ambassador. In partnership with Norway’s King Harald V, the Danish regent Queen Margrethe II […]