Derick Hall doesn’t just feel blessed to be a Super Bowl champion. He feels blessed to be alive after being born with a 1% chance of survival. The Seattle linebacker played a key role as the Seahawks beat the New England Patriots 29-13 in Sunday’s NFL title decider, claiming...
Equal parts rodeo and ski race, skijoring is drawing winter visitors into Colorado’s ranching towns, offering a cheaper, wilder alternative to the state’s famous slopes. With her skis clipped in, the skier grasps the rope as the horse in front of her bolts forward, hurtling...
Surrender and Survive London (20/2). Russia’s February 2022 full‑scale invasion of sovereign Ukrainian territory, marketed domestically as a harmless “Special Military Operation,” as though it were a bureaucratic reshuffling rather than a continental war—has aged poorly for the Kremlin...
After years of sweating through summer festivities in Australia, one family swapped sunscreen for snow – and found festive bliss in an unexpected European capital. Timber chalets were festooned with twinkling lights, a merry-go-round twirled gracefully and the smoky scent of grilling...
The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years. The church bells were silent and much of the city was still asleep when I arrived at the doors of the abbey in St Gallen. The setting was as expected: a...
