This stunningly-situated monastery, perched high in Bhutan's mountains, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites.

Andrew Stone surveys some of the more remarkable trends and breakthroughs which may - or may not - come to pass next year

Earthquake linked us with Japan in a year of loss but the scale of the destruction on March 11 was overwhelming

Fears over North Korea's nuclear bomb hide a deeper truth, writes Jared Genser.

Dom Joly visits Hiroshima 66 years after his father witnessed the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb firsthand.

There's been a dramatic spike in cheap flight sales to Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore.