China: Policy shift to allow three children

China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates. China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy…

Mount Everest: Teacher set new women’s speed record

“When you aim high, expect high,” Tsang Yin Hung, a former teacher from Hong Kong, told reporters in Nepal. It is a phrase she often repeated to her friends before…

USA: Elliot Page wins praise for sharing swimming shorts image after top surgery

Elliot Page has won praise for posing bare-chested for the first time since coming out as trans in December. An Instagram post shared by the actor showed him smiling while…

India: Couple holds mid-air wedding ‘to escape Covid restrictions’

An Indian couple reportedly chartered a plane and held a mid-air wedding with more than 160 guests in an effort to escape coronavirus restrictions. Video footage posted on social media…

USA: Superyacht sales surge as wealthy seek Covid escape

Wealthy people have so far spent more than £1bn on superyachts in 2021 as they seek to escape Covid lockdowns and travel restrictions, according to a luxury lifestyle publisher. Boat…

India: Inside the US$1 billion house

For the world’s super-wealthy, not your Brad Pitt and George Clooneys but your billionaire CEOs and various magnates who are way wealthier than those peons, the price tag for an…