A sports engineering expert says the swimming world should embrace new controversial swimsuits, not ban them.

Now is the ideal time to book a 2009-10 winter European cruise vacation with MSC Cruises while taking advantage of more than 60 percent in savings on balcony staterooms cruising two of the world's newest ships, MSC Fantasia and MSC Splendida, when booked through August 31.

High-rolling luxury travelers can enjoy an expanded focus on gaming in the land where it originated. Luxury specialist Crystal Cruises' Chance & Fortune Experiences of Discovery cruise will sail throughout the Greek Isles, revisiting the origins of gambling and Tycho, the goddess of Chance, and her son, Fortune.

VILNIUS - A variety of interesting events are set to kick off in Lithuania at the end of June to celebrate the country’s 1,000-year-birthday. The name of then Baltic Pagan Lithuania was mentioned in 1009 in the Quedlinburg Annals (a German written source of the 11th century) under these unfortunate circumstances: “St. Bruno, an archbishop and monk, who was called Boniface, was struck in the head ...

Sir Stelios HajiIoannou who founded budget airline easyJet thinks his lifestyle needs to reflect the values of his business.

Actor Richard Johnson takes to the high seas of Turkey's Aegean Riviera for a spot of relaxation

JULY 28 LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Los Angeles provided a dazzling opening ceremony befitting a Hollywood production .

By Mary Beard Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere The masterpieces of Minoan art are not what they seem. The vivid frescoes that once decorated the walls of the prehistoric palace at Knossos in Crete are now the main attraction of the Archaeological Museum in the modern city of Heraklion, a few miles from the site of Knossos. Dating from the early or mid-second millennium BC, ...

Warning: Your summer holiday could kill off your marriage

The head of the newly established Anglican Church in North America released an open letter to the entire Anglican Communion, contrasting the recent actions of his orthodox body to that of The Episcopal Church.