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Men generally have bigger feet than women – and a bigger carbon footprint too, according to new research. A joint UK-French study, at the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, found that men cause 26% more […]

The OZEN Collection opened Reserve Bolifushi in 2020, after the success of its first property, OZEN Life Maadhoo. But if Maadhoo is the indulgent kaftan, Bolifushi is the sparkling tuxedo. Plonked in a cerulean lagoon in South Malé Atoll, this

When you picture a Maldives island resort, you imagine flour-like sand, jade water and palm trees swaying in a sea breeze. But – if you’re anything like me – you worry about the food. Will it all be imported? Will

“I thought all the Nazis ran away to Argentina.” That line in the 2024 film “The Holdovers” got “a big laugh in cinemas in Buenos Aires”, said Sam Meadows in The Spectator. Audiences recognised the uneasy truth: the flight of

The UK is famous for its changeable weather so the fact that we have just basked in the sunniest, driest April since records began suggests something is afoot. What held back the famous April showers? The answer is simple: a

Violence has once again broken out in fractured Syria between forces allied with the new Islamist regime and fighters from one of the country’s religious minorities. Dozens of members of the Druze community were killed in clashes with pro-government forces

Snacking on sunflower seeds is Spain’s “national vice”, said The Times. To many, they are “as Spanish as paella”. Eating pipas, which requires snackers to “deftly crack open the shells with their teeth and spit them out”, is “associated with

For the first time in history, the one in five US adults who identify as Catholic will have a fellow American as their spiritual leader. Although Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, henceforth to be known as Pope Leo XIV, spent much

“Since the intelligence test was invented more than 100 years ago, our IQ scores have been steadily increasing,” said BBC Future. But, in recent years, that trend has been slowing or even reversing – suggesting that we may well have

Almost 17 years ago, Nepal’s King Gyanendra Shah “bowed to the inevitable” and stepped down from the throne, handing over a crown made of “yak’s hair and emeralds”, said The Times. After “widespread protests” against his authoritarian rule, Gyanendra fled