Bearing torches that lit up the night as they swam out into the ocean, Japan’s storied “ama” prayed for an abundant catch in a ceremony held by these female free divers for decades.

Visiting Paris for the Olympics and want to share the enticing aroma of a fresh baguette? A scratch-and-sniff stamp on your postcard could be the answer.

The BBC apologised to any contestant who had suffered a bad experience on “Strictly Come Dancing” after the long-running show was hit by allegations about the training methods of some of its professional dancers.

Barcelona cannot absorb an ongoing, unbridled growth in the number of tourists and has to impose restrictions so as not to become a “theme park” without residents, the mayor of Spain’s most visited city by foreigners told Reuters.

A Brazilian conceptual artist swapped a historic British coin for a fake in the British Museum to highlight the large number of foreign objects it holds.

The gentle lilt of a flute fills a cramped second-storey space in Tokyo that houses a burbling vat of fermenting sake.

If anything especially notable happened between late July and December of last year, I can’t remember it. All I know is pink.

Chadwick Boseman’s final tweet before his death in 2020 was both personal and political.

Could “The Simpsons” please start sharing some lottery numbers?

The Olympic world’s ever-expanding quest to draw in young fans is meeting them where they are — on Roblox.

An unexpected knee injury didn’t keep actor Aubrey Plaza from her front-row seat to the WNBA All-Star game on Saturday, which the “White Lotus” star attended while icing her leg and using crutches. Plaza, 40, suffered a torn ACL — a notoriously painful medical situation that can sometimes require surgery to fix — while playing “knockout” at the Phoenix Mercury’s practice facility earlier in the weekend, according to sports commentator Ryan Ruocco.