At 26, Matthieu Ricard left a promising scientific career in France to become a Buddhist monk in the Himalayas. Now 79, he is ...

The devices will be used to airlift heavy, dangerous loads normally carried by mountain guides. They might even deliver a hot ...

After serving in the interim government for nearly seven months, Nahid resigned on February 25 and three days later, launched ...

And in his own little way, Rameshwor Bhaiya made lives possible for us because he brought us letters, documents, exam results ...

Eva Chiom Chukwenele, an amputee peer counsellor at the Mobility Clinic Limited in Nigeria, said as a child, the Platform for ...

Almost a century ago, a Glasgow RAF pilot narrowly escaped death in a fragile open-cockpit biplane as he became the first man to fly over Mount Everest. Air Commodore Sir Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, ...

Brightly dressed boys and girls mounted on horses and carts, accompanied by their guardians, make their way to a Buddhist ...

The festival is a national holiday in India, while in Nepal it’s a two-day event that began Thursday ... flung water balloons ...

In this extract from the BBC Select documentary Bin Laden: The Road To 9/11, a mujahideen commander named 'Fearless' recounts Bin Laden's first days of training. How did the quiet son of a ...

In northern Kenya’s Isiolo county, young researchers who study pastoralism ... how traditional grazing systems kept them healthy. A man herds goats in the town of Gotu in Isiolo county, Kenya.

His estimated net worth is 21.2 million dollars. Vusi Thembekwayo is the richest young man on the list, but still not among the wealthiest in South Africa. He is an entrepreneur best known for his ...