Real estate
Life in the capital metropolis provides many opportunities for earning, access to quality healthcare and education. This comes at the cost of constant traffic jams, street noise, air pollution, and…
If you are served fried ants with pine nuts, just tell yourself that you won’t die from it. That’s the advice the BBC Capital correspondent received when he first attended a real Chinese banquet in…
The human body is a unified and indivisible system, each part of which is necessary for the full functioning of all systems and organs. For any educated person, it is no secret what role teeth play…
Money
Bank credit or salary cards have long been familiar to most people. It would seem there is nothing new to learn about them, but I would like to focus on the safe use of bank cards. Especially since…
Culture
Around the world, there are many places that were previously virtually unknown but today are famous and popular tourist attractions. People learn about many of them through works of literature or…
Switzerland's Lake Stein and its namesake glacier are modern-day enigmas. The clean air and water attract not only health tourism enthusiasts but also real scientists.
Tourism
The current winter sports season is at its peak: it will be a long time before streams run down the slopes of the Alps, Pyrenees, and Altai, but at the same time the peak of Christmas and New Year…
Travel
An Australian couple hasn't returned home for years: 18 years ago, Sharyn and Tim Nielsen decided to spend several months or even years on the road. They planned a route, bought tickets, and left…
Law zone
The recently enacted prostitution law in Canada has sparked heated debate. On one side are politicians led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the feminists who initiated the document. On the other…
Law zone
Scandinavians were the first to decide that the crime is committed not by the prostitute but by the man using her services. In Sweden, buying sex carries a penalty of up to four years in prison…
Education
Tuition at the most expensive school in the world, the Swiss Institut Le Rosey, costs about 107,000 euros per year (twice as much as its competitors – Eton and Harrow). Among the students are…
Everyday life
In the German food market, the price war in 2014 was won not by discounters but by supermarkets with higher price levels. As Deutsche Welle writes, their success is linked not to aggressive pricing…