But with more than 70% of the population fully vaccinated, people can once more be seen planting what are usually just air kisses by a kissing sound on each other's cheeks.

For years, Samar Rahbini thought it would be "impossible" to cycle in the streets of conservative Saudi Arabia. Now she runs a mixed-gender cycling club in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

A Bangladeshi man in his 80s has been reunited with his nearly 100-year-old mother after about 70 years thanks to social media.

The Danish toy company had already performed well last year despite the pandemic, thanks to the success of Lego themes such as Star Wars and Harry Potter and its expansion in China.

The controversial Penumpasan Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI was once must-see cinema, literally. But a new generation has grown up without watching the movie.

"Queen The Greatest" opens its doors on Tuesday and takes visitors back to the early days of the band, which was formed in 1971.

French high-end fashion brand Saint Laurent will stop using fur in its collections from next year, joining a growing list of global companies.

Nepal has restarted visas on arrival for vaccinated tourists as South Asian nations attempt to revive tourism businesses devastated after 18 months of the pandemic.

When the education minister enforced online schooling as part of the government’s COVID-19 response on March 17, 2020, some people espied an opportunity to earn an extra income from the digital gap the policy would expose.

Indonesia with its diverse culture and beautiful nature is a potential Petri dish of creativity. However, intellectual rights infringements somehow remain a looming concern.

The taxis and courtesy cars, street style and front row stars are back in Milan Wednesday as fashion week returns with mostly live audiences for the first time in 18 months.

Tucked in an alleyway of the Grand Bazaar, the smallest and oldest teahouse in Tehran is invisible from the main street. And yet it is the most famous among tea connoisseurs in the Iranian capital.

Oei Hiem Hwie intends to pass down the wealth of knowledge and history he has accumulated over at least the last five decades to the younger generation through the collection of his Medayu Agung library, lest they forget and repeat the mistakes of the past.

More than 106 million travellers to Thailand had their personal details exposed online in August, a cybersecurity research company that discovered the data said.

Once a year, North Niger's traditional gateway to the Sahara is the gathering point for the Cure Salee festival of Tuareg and Wodaabe pastoralists.

As visitors set up picnic spots in the shaded grounds, heavily armed Taliban gunmen peer into the enclosures.

Catwalk shows resumed at London Fashion Week on Friday, after previous editions of the landmark industry event were forced online by the pandemic.

Many Indonesians are drowning in overbearing loans and intimidation attacks after taking out online loans to survive. 

With the outbreak gradually easing, Langkawi, one of tropical Malaysia's premier holiday destinations, has been chosen for a pilot project to reopen the sector to domestic tourists.

A retired Boeing passenger jet has been hauled to the top of a seaside cliff in Bali to lure tourists to Indonesia's coronavirus-hit holiday island.

While it is easy to dismiss online sex as a social reality shaped by the internet, hooking up via social media is not as straightforward as they might seem.

Instagram defended itself against a report that the social network harms the mental health of young girls, saying it plans to play down posts promoting myths about beautiful bodies.

K-pop sensation BTS have been granted diplomatic passports ahead of the United Nations General Assembly as they embark on their new roles as presidential special envoys.

Two white terriers have earned thousands of dollars endorsing products ranging from vacuum cleaners to shoes -- and are even represented by an agency.

Boeing said the commercial aviation market should fully recover by 2024 from its pandemic slump.

Cats may have nine lives, but their time on Earth is often cut short by kidney problems -- so people in Japan have donated nearly $2 million to the search for a cure.

The pandemic hasn’t stopped Indonesians from finding spiritual guidance from gurus, and one is ready to guide them.

At the 9/11 memorial in New York, relatives wiped away tears, their voices breaking as they read out the names of the almost 3,000 people killed in the Al-Qaeda attacks.

Cloning is in high demand in the competitive world of camel beauty pageants, leaving scientists at a Dubai clinic working round the clock to produce carbon-copy beasts.

With YouTube videos "debunking" allegations of human rights abuses and diatribes on Western "conspiracies" against China, an unlikely set of foreigners are loudly defending Beijing from its international critics.