Each September the quiet farming village of St Hilaire du Touvet in the French Alps explodes with the sights and sounds of a paragliding and hang-gliding festival called the Coupe Icare (the Icarus Cup). Check out our gallery to see the highlights of this year's event ...
Amsterdam is changing fast — a third of its brothels are being closed down and coffee shops face a no-smoking ban next year. But Philip Sendiscovers a thriving alternative to the 'alternative' scene.
Nepal's mountaineering authorities are calling for a ban on nudity and attempts to set obscene records on the world's highest mountain, officials said Wednesday.
Nepal wants to ban nudity on Everest. The irony is that this is where trouserless-peaking started with George Mallory, claims regular naked climber Hank Wangford