Traditional cooking styles have always been the focal point of cuisines around the world and they play vital roles in shaping up the culinary trend of a region or civilisations.

With his grey top hat, red waistcoat and watch chain, Juergen Schmidt has evidently dropped in from a different century to guide tour groups through Wittenberge, a former industrial town halfway between Berlin and Hamburg.

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but this is ridiculous. Lois Csontos-Nielsen and Freda Jones have been friends for 70 years. They have been in each other’s presence exactly four times — an average of once every 17 1/2 years.

Haj literally means ‘to set out for a place’. Islamically, however, it refers to the annual pilgrimage that Muslims make to the holy city of Makkah with the intention of performing certain religious rites in accordance with the method prescribed by the Prophet Muhammad (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam

As a spoken word poet, Afra Atiq doesn’t like to see her contemplations and curiosities forged in the visual boundaries of the written word.

The Academic Bridge Program (ABP) organised an orientation event for 250 new students at the Learning Resource Center, located at the ABP building on the campus of the Qatar Foundation.

A large Roman-era necropolis in eastern Serbia has yielded a spectacular find for archaeologists: gold and silver foils asking favours of deities and demons via deceased couriers.

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra says her favourite part about her profession is that it gives her the liberty to play myriad characters.

As the fiery Doha summer begins to make its way out by the end of this month, DJs from all parts of the world are set to descend in droves and get the party re-started.

Despite our best intentions, when it comes to weight loss and healthy habits, we all have our weak moments — those times we always slip up, no matter how determined we are.

Here’s the sofa on which Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sat, happily sandwiched between Willy Brandt and Hannelore “Loki” Schmidt, with Helmut Schmidt perched on the end, the inevitable cigarette in his hand.

Admittedly even a master cannot make a masterpiece every time he dips his brush into paint to pat patterns on the canvas or every time he takes up a chisel to carve an image out of stone.