Anguilla sets its sights on Latin America’s luxury travelers

Africa's top doctor, who has called Canada home since 2013, tells CBC News there could be "massive" cross-border spread of Ebola in the months ahead as he calls for more international support.

In Malaysia, U.S. and Chinese tech giants are pouring billions into vast data centers, straining local resources and testing the limits of Washington’s restrictions on advanced chips.

From cherry and banoffee pie to Tabasco and sesame, the list of food aromas popping up in luxury fragrances keeps growing. Now some perfume makers are starting to ask if weight-loss drugs might be reshaping what consumers want in a scent. So-called gourmand fragrances like Thierry Mugler’s pioneering candyfloss-inspired Angel and Nina Ricci’s toffee apple scent Nina have been around for decades. More recent growth in the segment has been attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic-era boom in online...

The looming departure of the European Central Bank’s president, Christine Lagarde, has set in motion a high-stakes search for her successor.

Autumn in Beijing, with more than leaves on the agenda

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Hainan's digital reporting system streamlines grassroots governance

"'Growing old together.' It's hard to deteriorate physically while watching your best friend suffer the same fate." View Entire Post ›

Because spending an exorbitant amount of money on a universal adapter at the airport is NOT the vibe. View Entire Post ›

The history of the betel nut, also known as the areca nut, stretches further back than previously thought. New research suggests that people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi were enjoying its mind-altering effects as long as 25,000 years ago. The discovery began with two ancient skeletons whose teeth bore curious, deep grooves. Australian archaeologists suspected these were the result of repeatedly sucking on whole betel nuts. Chemical analysis subsequently detected traces of arecoline, the...

Amazon became the latest tech company to announce swelling investments in A.I. amid stumbling share prices.

Widely known as Sam the Cooking Guy, Sam Zien is an enthusiastic proponent of sweet potatoes. He loves mashing them and seasoning with miso, butter and chopped spring onions. Or he cubes, boils and roasts the sweet potatoes, then adds a generous dollop of lemon yogurt, with sprinkles of dukkah, a mixture of chopped nuts and sesame seeds, seasoned with cumin, coriander and salt. Another way is to add sweet potatoes to quesadillas with Mexican chorizo, a highly seasoned fatty pork sausage, and...