One of the most beautiful parts of Karwachauth is when women look at the moon through a sieve before breaking their fast.
A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.
I had come to Uzbekistan with many other journalists as a guest of the country’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, though the ...