Get into the festive spirit with a fun-to-make Yule log that would coax a smile out of Scrooge himself.

El Gouna, Egypt's 'Venice on the Red Sea', has everything you could want from a holiday resort - except, that is, for authenticity. Words by Orlando Crowcroft.

Scandals, space milk, Mayan doom-mongering, wiff-waff …Test your mental mettle - or at least your powers of recollection - against the best our team of trivia monkeys can muster. 

Tim Pile goes in search of answers on a pub-quiz crawl around Hong Kong.

He may be the world's sole male geisha, but Enosuke Hirose is only following tradition, writes Julian Ryall.

Make an unforgettable entrance in one of the season's fashion-forward cocktail dresses.

Sliding doors and judiciously placed mirrors have given a couple who love to entertain room to manoeuvre.

The former policeman tells Robby Nimmo about the corruption that infected the Hong Kong force in the 1970s, and where to fish locally.

Santa Claus … It’s almost time for the world’s favourite bearded fat man to gee up his reindeers again. 

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