It's the dead of night, you're cycling through the desert and are so chronically fatigued you think you're seeing goblins. Welcome to Race Across America (RAAM) -- 12 days of hell spent pedalling from the west coast to the east. The route st...
The world's shortest commercial runway, a 400-meter-long strip at Juancho E Irausquin Airport on the Carribbean island of Saba, has been named the world's most scenic airport approach in a global survey conducted byPrivateFly, a booking...
After six years of construction, the 555-meter-tall (1,820 ft) Lotte World Tower opened in April, setting three world records and redefining the Seoul skyline. Not only is it the tallest tower in South Korea and fifth highest in the worl...
Green markets, farmers' markets, fresh markets, wet markets -- whatever you call them, these are the places that make Walmart, Tesco and other supermarket chains look like crimes against cuisine. Often centuries old but full of freshness, markets...
Dutch pilot Christiaan van Heijst's photographs capture the views he sees from his cockpit. From the patterns made by the Marho Kotri River Delta in Pakistan, to the amazing colours of the Aurora Borealis over Alaska, his images show a point of view...
The simplicity of the design of bus stops has allowed architects around the world to come up with creative and unusual solutions. Some designs give a nod to local culture and others have a futuristic sensibility. A bus stop in Denmark. ...
Italian State Police Lamborghini Huracan If you’re an Italian traffic cop, today is a very good day, for Lamborghini has just donated a second Huracan to the country’s Highway Patrol. Like the first, it will be used for “...
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A selection of the shortlisted photographs in the world’s largest photography competition. The shortlist for the Sony World Photography Awards competition has been released with the winner set to be announced on 20 April. We present a ...
The town of Loveland, Colorado, in the lap of the white-tipped Rocky Mountains, is smitten with Valentine's Day, writes Andy Jones. Ask nicely and they'll even send you a card. In the Loveland postal room, the thump-thump sound of ink stamp ...
Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company's own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history. The digital heist disclosed ...
It has been 35 years since researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first reported on a mysterious illness that was infecting and killing otherwise healthy young men. The CDC report from 1981 was the first t...
This could be the world’s fastest electric car: the NIO EP9. NextEV, which also has a Formula E team, says its electric supercar achieved a new lap record at the the Nürburgring Nordschleife racetrack, a legendary German racetrack ...
Andree Wu has only been an intern at Shanghai start-up Yitu Technology for a couple of months, but already feels at home. The atmosphere is cozy, she says, with a piano for impromptu music breaks and a fridge stocked with drinks and snacks. ...
China's Long Qingquan lifted a combined world record of 307kg to win Olympic gold in the men's 56kg weightlifting. Long's 170kg lift with his last attempt in the clean and jerk saw him grab gold from London 2012 champion Om Yun-Chol of North...
Strong earnings from Amazon and a boost to the company's stock have made its founder, Jeff Bezos, the world's third richest person, according to Forbes. Mr Bezos owns 18% of Amazon's shares, which rose 2% in trading on Thursday. Forbes esti...
When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a new study confirms. The average Dutchman is now 183cm (6ft) tall, while the average Latvian woman reaches 170cm (5ft 7in). The research, published in...
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