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Two natural wonders top the list: Alaska's North Slope, where Prudhoe Bay oil meets migrating caribou, and Kazakhstan's remote Sharyn Canyon. A globe-trotting correspondent reflects on the places and people he has encountered.
Long before he understood why, our writer was entranced by his Dutch grandparents' cooking: broth soups, liver sausage and his Opa's hybridised Indonesian dishes, served with hand-ground coffee, sugar syrup and Oma's pies.
A little leather booklet of negatives reveals their grandfather and his wife in 1930s Kashmir, smiling and embracing. Among leather-bound tomes emerge his fountain-pen poetry and curious scribbles in Latin, colouring years of silence.
This is a wonderful real story about a Korean millionaire who moved to Bahrain eleven years ago and spends each and every morning cleaning rubbish off the streets in his neighbourhood. Mr. Yo we applaud you.
Best known for bringing remote corners of the globe to life, National Geographic owes its photographic legacy to chance. In 1904, editor Gilbert Grosvenor filled eleven blank pages with images from Imperial Russia.
With restaurants across four continents, Gordon Ramsay is a busy man, yet at Doha's St. Regis he appears wholly at ease. In chef's whites, he is in Qatar to promote his fine-dining and casual ventures.
Billy Karam's passion began with the Porsche 911 SC RS that carried him to a Lebanese rally title. When real cars grew unattainable, he turned to miniatures, building an extraordinary scale collection.
Yasmine Hamdan is no ordinary rebellious Arab pop star. More an experimental rocker, her progressive, contemporary take on Arabic music weaves creative, lyrical renditions of beloved Arab classics with punk rock references and shimmering electronica.
It is an unusual setting for an interview, a sunlit apartment with a wall-sized mirror reflecting mother and daughter May and Raya Mamarbachi, redeemed by a terrace of plants and artworks lining every wall.
There is a trick to colour, our writer admits, though he cannot name it. Between two poles, the blue and white of the United Nations and the black and white of his own marriage, he searches for meaning.
Earth-rattling events are distilled into two-minute, good-guys-versus-bad-guys segments engineered not to upset the six o'clock dinner. Where photography prizes simplicity, our writer argues, news coverage merely strips away every shred of intelligent nuance.
The president's hometown is also that of his inner circle, from the chiefs of Rosneft and Gazprom to Russia's largest banks. Now into his third term, Putin increasingly embraces his St. Petersburg roots.