For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual ...

Four restored Tasmanian-designed yachts have been re-launched today ahead of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. The Derwent Class yachts, made from Tasmanian timber, date back as early as the 1920s.

SOUTH HAVEN, MI –– Freezing a fish doesn’t give it wings. Yet, there were plenty of frozen fish flying across a Southwest ...

A historic 20-metre wooden pilot cutter has sunk in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel off Middleton after taking on water. The 1958 ...

There are not many boats that can sail competitively in the Sydney-Hobart one month, and then show up at the Australian ...

They had been placed in the water by the hundreds of dragon boat paddlers, all cancer survivors, gathered together at the ...

Writer Levison Wood with a festival attendee at Kumbh Mela Credit: Levison Wood And while it would be easy to dismiss the gathering as chaotic or overwhelming, there’s something profoundly ...

Editor's note: Spring Festival marks the beginning of a new year in China and is the most important traditional festival for Chinese people. The festival, along with a full range of practices and ...

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Dramatisation of one of the most ingenious escape bids of World War II, in which British soldiers use a wooden vaulting horse as cover when trying to get out of Stalag Luft III. Show more ...

Being on board a wooden boat certainly feels good, but is it true it’s better for our health? Robin Gates explains… Since the noxious whiff of curing fibreglass first triggered alarm in a shipwright’s ...