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Some of the worlds rarest whisky bottles will soon be going under the hammer as part of the largest auction of a private whisky collection to date.Whisky auction site Whisky Auctioneer will be selling 3900 bottles consisting of The Perfect Collection, amassed…

For his latest work at the international Art Basel fair, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan bought a banana, duct-taped it to the wall of the gallery and called it Comedian. Over the weekend, American artist David Datuna upped the ante when he created a perform…

Before I took a trip there to fly the world’s shortest commercial flight, I was surprised by how many people didn’t know where Orkney was, or even that it was in the U.K. It’s an archipelago of around 70 islands, 10 miles north of the coast of Caithness in Sc…

IF YOURE PLANNING on staying up next Thursday night and into Friday morning to follow the results of the UK election, expect to hear the word marginal used a lot. Youll hear several variations on it: marginal seat, marginal constituency and even the perennia…

The future residents of the Holnicote Estate, which sprawls across a portion of Exmoor National Park in Somerset, England, are two families with dark eyes, strong teeth, and thick brown fur. As they settle in in early 2020, these new tenants—mums, dads, and p…

from the transformation of a disused gas station in arkansas to a mirrored cabin that reflects the sublime alpine landscape, 2019 saw a number of large scale art installations completed around the globe. each of the projects — whether they be temporary, perma…

Image copyrightKaren RussellImage caption The mighty elm once dominated the skyline The elm tree can return to the British countryside, given a helping hand, according to a new report. More than 20 million trees died during the 1960s and 1970s from Dutch …

Forget naughty or nice. Santa wants to know, how well can you explain your project in a grant application? Turn in your elf costume, it's time to quit your seasonal job and bet big on your film career! With some luck and some hard work on the following grant…

Despite the controversy surrounding hunting, it is a way of life for a lot of the world, and without it, wed never have evolved past our primate ancestors into the planet overlords we are today. For some, hunting is not about taking trophies to hang on the wa…

Stirling (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Surprise victories in Scotland helped save the Conservative Party in the 2017 election but Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in danger of losing those gains next week, forcing him to look elsewhere for a parliamentary…