Fashionable with a dash of the macabre, “costume makeup” is becoming more common among fashionistas. And there's more to it than just slabs of latex.

Despite the easy accessibility of social media, physical mail is still popular among romantics. 

Long condemned for harsh restrictions on women, Saudi Arabia lifted a decades-old ban on female footballers only a few years ago, and it is now aiming to develop a national team strong enough to contest major tournaments.

Exactly one year before it hosts the football World Cup, Doha is criss-crossed with trenches and snarled with traffic as officials race to install a vital feature -- adequate drainage.

"As a result of Visa's continued high cost of payments, we regret that Amazon.co.uk will no longer accept UK-issued Visa credit cards as of 19 January, 2022," an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

Retail ads in Jakarta and other big cities are being swept by the Korean wave as brands capitalize on the foreign celebrities' popularity for greater visibility and relevance among younger consumers.

The issue riled up the ire of conservatives in a country where questions about gender have become a hot topic since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro took power three years ago.

Due to supply chain issues caused by the pandemic, bars and nightclubs across Spain have struggled to stock their shelves.

Peru's bullfights, which are about as popular as soccer in the South American nation, made their much-anticipated return this weekend to the rings of Lima.

Movable, stylish, and eco-friendly; prefabricated houses may be an alternative for younger Indonesians looking to own their first home. 

Can influencers stay objective when reviewing products by paying sponsors?

More people are furnishing their homes with DIY furniture for the satisfaction of creating or assembling it.

Members of online bartering communities share and swap personal items to help ease each other's economic burden during the pandemic.

Costing millions, sales of plants such as monstera, aglaonema, succulents and scindapsus have thrived during the pandemic.

Often the only way to complete orders on time is to "go really fast... speed past red lights, drive on the wrong side of the road," Zhuang said, or else he would be fined half of his earnings.

Afzali has created more than 200 comic videos that started out by targeting the deposed pro-Western Afghan government. But now his sights are set on the Taliban.

The little room with three beds, a ceramic pot and a wooden chest was discovered during a dig at the Villa of Civita Giuliana just a few hundred metres from the rest of Pompeii.

How an online English course has helped visually impaired Indonesians navigate through their lives

Following in the footsteps of Jesse and Céline, the main characters of the movie Before Sunrise, Katrin Figge’s short city trip to Vienna offered a much-needed escape.

The Eiffel Tower had "a good month of October", the attraction's operator said Thursday, thanks to tourists returning to Paris.

Danzico had been swept up in the global craze for trading digital currencies during the pandemic, and very quickly it had grown into an obsession. 

Opposition toward dog meat has been rising in recent years, but the cuisine proves to be hard to erase in Indonesia.

When your home becomes the office, how do you ever leave work?

Secondhand fashion, known colloquially as “reworked thrift”, is making its way to a larger audience with its attractive, affordable prices amid the pandemic-induced financial storm.

As food became scarce, community-run kitchens were sometimes the only thing standing in the way of people and starvation.

Retirement is one of those stages in life everyone is aware of but often put aside in the back of their minds.

Galloping across the red sands of Jordan's Wadi Rum valley, more than one hundred riders on horses swept through the lunar-like desert as part of an epic long-distance race.

Thanks to a year of relative calm following an October 2020 ceasefire and a United Nations-led peace process, the first group of tourists since 2012 were able to visit Libya.

The ongoing pandemic inevitably affects make-up artists and costume makers who usually generate income during celebrations such as Halloween. For some, however, it is not just about the money - but also the joy they find through brushes and fabrics.

This Halloween, The Jakarta Post delves into superstitions that remain in Indonesian culture