The office of Bernard Paniel on the outskirts of Paris has for years been a mandatory stop for many Muslim women nervous about getting married.
An obstetrician-gynecologist for France’s public health system, Dr. Paniel performs an operation to reattach the hymens of women who want to appear as virgins. For such patients, virginity is a prerequisite [...]
Share autos are a boon to commuters. With cheap rates, comfortable frequency, various stops, this mode of transportation is quite popular in lot areas of the city. But the most commonly found share auto route is the T.Nagar - Thirumangalam route & LIC - Golden Flats route. Next follows the deep suburban areas like Porur [...]
Bandaged around his head and left hand, senior firefighter Grylls, 29, today credited fate with leaving him with minor injuries.
He was standing next to his Red Watch boss, Senior Station Officer Derek Lovell, when a huge explosion ripped through the Icepak Groups Waikato coolstore, where they were checking an alarm.
Mr Lovell, 48, was knocked backward [...]
Machu Picchu may be one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, but it is really just a four-day schlepp up a big hill to watch the sunrise over a pile of rubble. The real reason to visit Peru is the food. While more athletic types huff and puff their way to high altitude [...]
I havejust spent five weeks working and experiencing life in China, with fellow dairy farmer Peter Ferguson. While it was good to return on Easter Monday to good, green Southland grass, there was a lot about China and the Chinese that impressed us.
Our first stop was on the outskirts of Tianjin, Chinas fourth largest city [...]
I know a couple who spent four years planning a holiday. It wasn’t that it took four years to plan, they weren’t proposing a sponsored circumnavigation by rickshaw. Simply that they decided to have a proper holiday in four years’ time. With this decided, time and space went to work, and the years changed speed [...]
Led by hundreds of shaven-headed Buddhist monks in maroon robes, some as young as eight, they waved Tibetan flags and marched through the streets of Siliguri, chanting “We want justice, we want freedom”.
“The U.N. is watching what is happening in Tibet but it is doing nothing,” said Dawa Gyalpo, who runs a library of Tibetan [...]
UK Bloomfield House, BathRobert and Karen Barnard-Weston’s elegant Georgian house is on a hill on the outskirts of Bath. Once the home of the town’s lord mayor, Bloomfield is now a relaxed family home - the couple have five children, five cats and [...]
On the night train from Delhi to Kolkata, trying to persuade myself to sleep, I started to count the Indian railway journeys I’d made. I reached 100 or so and then gave up. So many journeys, so many early-morning cigarettes smoked over tea [...]
