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(CNN) — Nestled between Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Liberia is the oldest republic in Africa. But despite its historic legacy, in the minds of many outsiders the West African nation is still more commonly associated with civil war and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor. But at the...

A surfer has been filmed riding a giant wave called Stones which forms off St Ives in Cornwall. Tom Butler, from Newquay, rode the rarely-breaking wave in February for the film Cornwall's Wildest Wave. Surfing the monster wave, which was at least three times overhead, required a safety boat and...

What happens when a fashion brand takes inspiration from a place?. Not unusually, it is distilled to a couple of key details: its geography and temperature, its sense of national or local character, its particular (often fondly-held) clichés. British-ness, for example, is frequently invoked as the land of tweed and rainstorms, while the sultry heat of the Mediterranean offers glamour galore.

Are you ready to give this campfire classic an update? Try these tips, just in time for summer. My husband and I are on the fourth year of Our Grand Tour, living the road trip dream in a 23-foot motorhome. One of our ongoing obsessions is making a raging campfire and cooking over the coals.

Before taking my very first hydrofoiling lesson, I made the mistake of watching a video where a rider skims across the surface of a lake while playing around with a laptop. If people are out here sending emails from their foilboards, I reasoned to friends and family (the marketing charm somehow flying right over my head), I had little to worry about.