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The sun blazed over Tokyo's airport, yet a freak blizzard had hit western Japan. Amid travel disruption almost unheard of in the country, our design writer pressed on towards snowbound Fukuoka and Kyushu.
As Wikipedia – the free, open content digital encyclopaedia created through the collaborative effort of a community of online users – celebrates its 15th anniversary, its co-founder, Jimmy Wales, says his dream is that every single person on the planet has free access to knowledge. Acco…
One of the coolest pieces of classic car footage ever made, this video is the result of a collaboration between Red Bull Japan and Takeshi Kimura of Car Guy along with the director Luke Huxham, who apparently wanted to see what it would be like to set off from Tokyo and charge up the sn…
Riding a hot, slow train towards Weligama along the southwestern coast, our writer trades air-conditioned comfort for the glue-thick heat of summer, rewarded by chilli-sprinkled pineapple and the unhurried life beyond the window.
On Opera Gallery's opening night in Beirut, it was neither the pre-Cubist Picasso nor the early Dali that captivated. The real star was Korean artist Seo Young Deok's terrace sculpture, 'Meditation 16'.
When Verdi's Aida played Qatar's Katara Opera House in 2012, it was a regional first. With new houses rising in Kuwait and Dubai, a fresh fascination with classical opera is sweeping the Gulf.
At Davos, KAEC chief executive Fahd Al Rasheed talks to John Defterios about a 100 billion dollar city the size of Washington DC, Saudi oil reform and the long road from 5,000 residents to two million.
World premieres rarely live up to the hype. So our writer mused, sitting in a VIP room beneath Dubai's Pasha nightclub, as journalists and sheikhs gathered for the regional launch of Nissan's Nismo marque.
Here’s some behind-the-scenes footage of our favourite US-born Palestinian-Dutch supermodel, Jelena Noura Hadid (otherwise known as Gigi Hadid), who was taken to Tahiti for the 2016 Sports Illustrated bikini shoot. Oh and by the way, if you want to read the interview we had with h…
Step through the door of Electra House, Lee Broom's Shoreditch showroom, and you might assume the brand long-established. From its signature grey backdrop to its tactile materials, everything conveys sophisticated, hard-won confidence.
As the Armani Hotel Dubai turns five, we celebrate its quiet refusal of Arabian cliché, Giorgio Armani's hand-picked materials and the world's tallest tower wrapped around it.
In a world awash with crude, drilling nears completion at southern Azadegan, the region's largest oilfield. After years of sanctions, the struggle to bring new production online is etched across the ageing infrastructure.