The Royal Suite’s lake view may have won the Burgenstock Hotel and Alpine Spa in Switzerland a listing in the top 100 hotel suites of the world, but the view from just about every other window, patio, balcony and pool, in this amazing spa resort, is almost as breathtaking.
The property sits spectacularly 500 metres (1,640ft) above Lake Lucerne and Elite Traveler, that bible for ultra-high-net-worth individuals, declared that no words could express its ‘glorious wonders’.
I decide to rise
Ethisphere has a proprietary metric for assessing how morally correct companies are. This year, it gave an award to Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
Eighteen years ago, in the wake of a series of fraudulent business scandals where major companies used accounting sleights of hand to cook their books, fool regulators, and gouge customers, people were fed up. So, the Ethisphere Institute
The world’s 30 coolest streets for 2024 have been named by Time Out and it’s a thoroughfare in the ‘ultra-trendy suburbs’ of Melbourne that takes the crown.
It’s followed by one of Hong Kong’s oldest roads, with a street in Austin, Texas, that ‘encapsulates the city’s spirit’ taking bronze. The UK doesn’t fare well, managing just one entry – London’s Gerrard Street in 17th place.
The ranking – compiled from the thoughts, ‘hyper-local insight’ and expertise of Time Out’s global
The most prestigious canine competition in the world has kicked off in Birmingham – featuring some very stylish looks from pooches and their owners.
Day one of Crufts 2024 saw pets from all around the world arrive to compete in categories such as agility and obedience, with the world-class Best In Show title to be awarded on Sunday.
One Pyrenean mountain dog showed off some impressive balance and prowess as she was seen excitedly measuring up to give kisses to
There’s something beyond a first-class plane cabin.
This.
The Residence. Etihad’s A380 ‘hotel suite in the sky’, which features a private lounge, an ensuite shower and toilet, and a separate bedroom with a double bed. I’ve been inside it all of one minute and already concluded it’s surely the world’s best plane cabin. Seat pitch, legroom – irrelevancies here.
I’m giddy with excitement and desperate to have a good look around but a first-class passenger opposite asks if I can
The enchanted worlds of Marshall Sahlins
What if we saw the study of ghosts, gods, and other metapersons as worthy of a science of its own?
Is a god, or any divine power, only a mirage of the human-made political structures that oppress us? This understanding of religion, popularized by 19th-century thinkers like Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim, has become received wisdom among the anthropologists and sociologists studying the origins and functions of religious
This is an airport like no other – impressive enough to be a tourist attraction. So beautiful it’s worthy of a postcard. So spacious it should perhaps carry a trigger warning for agoraphobics.
Which makes the experience of being a passenger in Abu Dhabi’s new Zayed International Airport – comprising one single Terminal A – an utterly surreal one.
There’s no hassle, no jostling, no general sense of despair. No one likes a delay but here it means the chance
On December 7th, at a safari resort in Kasane, Botswana, Ukraine briefed the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on an endangered national treasure. It wasn’t a monastery menaced by air strikes. Nor was it any of the paintings, rare books, or other antiquities seized by Russian troops. It was borscht, a beet soup popular for centuries across Eastern Europe. Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, in February, 2022—as fields burned, restaurants shuttered, and expert cooks fled
A combination of inflation and an eye-watering level of opulence sees the arrival of the planet’s new most expensive car.
Rolls-Royce has unveiled a one-of-a-kind bespoke Droptail coachbuilt luxury motor – the third of four commissioned individually by a super-wealthy customer – that costs a jaw-dropping £25million!
Named Arcadia – after the mythical ‘Heaven on Earth’ of Ancient Greek legend – the sumptuous two-seater roadster has been uniquely fashioned over more than four years to fit the character and tastes
1 Mayo Clinic – Rochester, U.S., Minnesota
2 Cleveland Clinic, U.S., Ohio
3 Toronto General – University Health Network, Canada, Toronto
4 The Johns Hopkins Hospital, U.S., Baltimore, Maryland
5 Massachusetts General Hospital U.S., Boston, Massachusetts
6 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Berlin
7 Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Sweden, Stockholm
8 AP-HP – Hôpital Universitaire Pitié Salpêtrière, France, Paris
9 Sheba Medical Center, Israel, Ramat Gan
10 Universitätsspital Zürich, Switzerland, Zurich
11 Singapore General Hospital (SGH), Singapore, Singapore
12 UCLA Health –
