With faster connections, new-generation trains and interesting destinations becoming more accessible, it's little wonder that train travel is booming ...

From a riverboat adventure in Amazonia to an ancient Welsh castle (via pickpockets in Barcelona and a chewy beef tartare . . ...

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A centerpiece of the jewelry collection is the 137-carat Florentine Diamond, a celebrated gem whose disappearance led to ...

To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard Waffen-SS. Europe was filled with large groups of refugees, ...

If you've visited any major European city in recent years, you've probably noticed things aren't quite the way they used to ...

Human beings primarily travel to see what exists beyond their everyday surroundings. Some places are remarkable not because they are famous or dramatic but because they reflect a way of life, a ...

Former pupils have helped them settle back into their old lives, including by bringing them food, bedding and other supplies.

Three Austrian nuns have rejected a compromise to remain at Goldenstein Monastery, escalating a yearslong dispute that now ...

Three elderly nuns who fled from a retirement home in Austria to return to their abandoned convent have been told they can ...

Austria has a rare ability to feel timeless without ever slipping into nostalgia for its own sake. Its towns are shaped by ...

Catholic leaders say the nuns can remain at the Austrian convent but must return to a “cloistered monastic life” away from ...