In the meantime, new for this year is a temporary Brussels to Venice sleeper train with a dining car and couchettes costing from £100 each way. Stopping off at Innsbruck and the Dolomites en route and ...

Ordinary people who do extraordinary things. Amy Mazur, recently retired and about to turn 63, is such a person. She plans to ...

For years - if not decades, the North Platte-McCook swim dual at the North Platte Recreational Center has ended with a "fun-run relay" between the two friendly rivals. Part of the Rec Center's pool ...

The L.A. Times Features team shares the places that have helped them amid uncertainty, be it a hot spring, cool desert, ...

Norfolk High’s swimming and diving squads faced prominent Lincoln Southwest in dual action on Thursday. The Panthers won the ...

A Turkish man used his powerful throwing arm to lob an ax a distance of 183 feet, 8.72 inches -- earning his eighth Guinness World Records title in the process.

Understanding when and why men outperform women, and under what circumstances that can change, is suddenly a fraught topic.

New research shows sea turtles, penguins and whales swim at optimal depths to minimise the energetic cost of travel.

As he maintains Tunisia's distance-swimming tradition, Ahmed Jaouadi has been named Swimming World's African Male Swimmer of ...

During my second season in April 2017, I got into an accident that led me to become a double amputee. I was only 17 years old. I was in the hospital for about 5 weeks, and had 9 or 10 surgeries during ...

Cornell University researchers are building soft robots with "robot blood" that is both hydraulic fluid that provides motive ...