Each year, after much consideration and debate, Afar’s global network of editors, writers, and travel advisors anoints the best new and renovated hotels in the world. For 2025, we’ve selected 25 ...

Ruth Stout didn’t plow, dig, water, or weed—and now her “no-work” method is everywhere. But behind her secret to the perfect ...

These affordable London hotels feature unique amenities, contemporary design, great locations, and interesting onsite restaurants.

Street art is everywhere. But which bits of London have the best work? It's a tough call. Often, some of the most striking street art appears as a one-off in an unlikely part of town. Witness the ...

Alabama, Texas and New Mexico warned that the seeds, which apparently came from China, could sprout into invasive plants, officials said. By Michael Levenson People in Alabama, Texas and New ...

In mainland China back then, art or anything outside literature and science wasn’t considered a real subject. So I didn’t know I was fond of art and design until I moved to England.

And the city's dazzling street art inspires for another reason: Much is created by women, national pioneers in what is often thought of as a male-dominated domain. Murals "can be very physical on ...

The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) said a mystery package containing unidentified seeds and an unsolicited liquid container from China was delivered to Clute, Texas. "Folks, please take ...

Moments after arriving in Lodz, central Poland, my taxi driver asks what other Polish destinations I ... often in the form of street art. Hundreds of murals fill the city (which once laid ...

Older people in Yunnan can still remember the days when merchants with mules plied the Tea Horse Road: the last few caravans ...