Known locally as the "Bonne Mere" (Good Mother), she is 11.2 metres (36.7 feet) tall and her crown towers 225 metres above the Mediterranean Sea. For more than a century the statue has watched ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Statue of Liberty is at the top of many travelers’ must-see lists. A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis ...

A Japanese curry take on beef pie, an upscale fisherman’s pie and a comforting Irish turkey pie.

The police said a man handed over a statue that he said he found in a plastic bag among trash bins. By Christine Hauser On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with ...

Known locally as the "Bonne Mere" (Good Mother), she is 11.2 metres (36.7 feet) tall and her crown towers 225 metres above the Mediterranean Sea. She was last covered in gold leaf in 1989 but wind, ...

A huge golden statue of the Virgin Mary that has for more than a century watched over the French port city of Marseille and its seafarers is this summer to receive a gold-leaf facelift. The virgin ...