World Watch

Lost Mayan City in Mexico Jungle Discovered By Accident

Ancient cities and settlements have been discovered by studying laser scans captured by drones, including those taken a decade ago.

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Chile Team Builds Region’s First 3D Printed ‘Seed Home’

A university team in Chile has built a huge 3D-printed concrete home that they say is Latin America’s first such building, using a robot “printer” that pours layers of concrete based on a digital plan controlled by a computer.

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Auckland Theatre Company 2025 season: From Gothic horror and mystery to big belly laughs

Auckland Theatre Company is continuing its reputation for presenting a diverse selection shows with its captivating 2025 line-up.

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Spanish mother and daughter train bacteria to restore church frescoes

As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria, her field, could be used in art restoration, her mother’s own area of expertise.

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Katy Perry, the internet go crazy for chonky Australian penguin chick

Pesto the huge king penguin chick has drawn hundreds of visitors to an Australian aquarium, and now the bird can count Katy Perry as one of his biggest fans.

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Low Danube reveals sunken World War II ships in Serbia, Hungary

The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War II have emerged near Serbia’s river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July and August that saw the river’s water level drop.

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Turkey’s stray dogs find homes abroad after new law to clear them off streets

Former Istanbul street dogs Dali and Deezi now live in the Netherlands, enjoying a pampered home life after years in a shelter in the Turkish city, and as other strays face being rounded up under a new law to clear them from the streets.

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World Watch: Spanish town gets soaked in red during tomato-lobbing Tomatina festival

The festival takes place every year in the last week of August.

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Marriage’s power dynamics explored in ATC’s harrowing one-woman show ‘Girls & Boys’

Auckland Theatre Company’s powerful production of Girls & Boys tells a harrowing tale of gender dynamics and violence through the eyes of a mother of two.

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The world’s most weird and wonderful hotels

For the average traveller, a hotel room is a merely a place to rest one’s weary head (with the real adventure starting once you leave its comfort).

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Paris delivers Seine swimming, but some still sceptical

Parisians will swim in the River Seine by the foot of the Eiffel Tower next year, Paris City Hall has pledged, although the high bacteria levels that delayed Olympic triathlon events this summer have left some residents and tourists hesitant over diving in.

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The tree that bears 40 different fruits

A professor from Syracuse University in New York created a tree that produces 40 different fruits.

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154-year-old pink wisteria in Japan creates magical canopy

This giant pink wisteria vine in Japan will leave you gobsmacked – it’s more than 150 years old.

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The world’s most beautiful bookstores

In an age where brick-and-mortar bookshops are few and far between, we celebrate print and the written word with our round-up of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

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5 of the world’s most colourful cities

From Italy to Argentina, MiNDFOOD brings you a collection of the world’s most colourful cities, streets and regions.

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Meet Wain, the World’s Oldest Wombat

The world’s oldest-known wombat, affectionately named Wain or Mr Wine, is defying the odds as he approaches his mid-30s.

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What Alabama ruling means for patients with frozen embryos: one woman’s story

Three of Kristia Rumbley’s embryos created at a clinic became her 7-year-old twins and 2-year-old son, while three have sat in freezers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for eight years in case she and her husband decide to have another kid.

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Women take part in Japan’s 1,250-year-old ‘naked festival’ for first time

Women officially joined a so-called “naked festival” at a shrine in central Japan on Thursday for the first time in the event’s 1,250 year history, donning purple robes and chanting excitedly as they bore a large bamboo trunk as an offering.

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10 of world’s most unusual foods

While much of the fun of travelling revolves around new experiences, even the most adventurous explorers may draw the line at trying certain foods.

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World Watch: 5 Incredible UNESCO Sites You May Never Have Heard Of

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention stands as a highly effective global instrument aimed at safeguarding the planet’s most exceptional natural locations, distinguished by their remarkable natural beauty, exceptional biodiversity, and noteworthy ecosystem and geological attributes.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: A legend of civil rights remembered

Today the United States of America celebrates Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service.

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Elvis train shakes, rattles and rolls to tribute festival in the Aussie outback

Hundreds of hip-shaking and wig-wearing Elvis Presley fans on Thursday began their annual pilgrimage to the Elvis Festival in the Australian outback, the world’s largest tribute to the iconic musician.

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From Kate Middleton to the Princess of Wales: 42 of our Favourite Photos

To celebrate the Princess of Wales’ 42nd birthday, we have chosen 42 of our favourite photos of the beloved royal. 

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World Watch: Argentina – the Land of Unloved Horses

Lorena Melantoni dedicates her weekends running a sanctuary for abused and abandoned horses, an issue in the South American nation known for its polo and stallion-riding gauchos.

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