Howard Chua-Eoan

We have become the calories we consume even though the measure is no longer officially scientific.

No matter what dishes are on the table this coming season of feasts — which starts off for Americans with Thanksgiving on Thursday — one word will float through everyone's mind: calories.

DeGeneres apparently fled to Britain to avoid him. But that's not an easy route for other Trump-o-phobes.

LONDON — I arrived hungry but with some anxiety at The Yellow Bittern on Caledonian Road, not far from St. Pancras Station. The small restaurant — seating about 16 diners — had been open for less than a week. From the street it looked like a bookstore, befitting its name, which is taken from a three-century-old Irish poem. The place is run by Hugh Corcoran, the Belfast-born chef who'd made his reputation cooking in France and Spain. I wasn't nervous about the food. I'd had his game stew and a sumptuous dish of tripe a year ago at a pop-up in Dalston. But there was a twist to this latest venture: The Yellow Bittern only takes cash.

A political alliance in the strategic Southeast Asian nation unravels with a bizarre video declaration.

The gatherings are still about the fans but media companies and merch dealers long ago staked out the territory for themselves.

The conventions allow fans of comics to meet their heroes — both actors and authors — with manga and anime playing an increasingly bigger role each year.

Long an example of animals in peril, the marine reptiles have made a dramatic comeback, with a significant anomaly.

Let me take you on a ride to revisit a millennia-old innovation that dictated the conduct of war, the shape of trade and the very concept of mobility and speed.

First, the writer took Manhattan, then London. But a bug got in the way of Tokyo. I've had the great privilege of living and working in two great cities, New York and London.