Jim Eagles is swept up in the holy atmosphere surrounding the Tomb of the Living King in Samarkand.

This collection of mausoleums, which slopes up a hillside to a more ordinary graveyard, is the most sacred site in the city of Samarkand. Known as the Tomb of the Living King, the site has grown up around a single tomb - that of Qusam ibn Abbas, the man said to have brought Islam to Uzbekistan.

Gill South gets some bad news from the dentist but with a little bit of effort, she aims to be smiling again soon.

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World heritage-listed Hoi An is famous as Vietnam's number-one tailoring town.

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Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer has floated plans to build a 21st-century version of the Titanic.

Peter Calder succumbs to the magic of Istanbul's famous bath houses.

Graham Reid finds that having a mission in southwest China can lead to strange and interesting places.

At its peak Ephesus, or Efes, ruled first by Greeks and then Romans, was a seaport home to 250,000 people.

In 1972, when Bhutan's fourth king was crowned; he declared that Gross National Happiness was more important than GDP.