Yet, travelling over the high steppe, we were ensconced in greater luxury than Genghis Khan ... borscht with chili vodka and a cadre of pastry desserts, all of them improbably made in the narrow ...

Scattered across the New York City subway system, strewn between its millions of comers and goers, are thousands of long-term ...

AS I LEFT THE OFFICE for a two-week adventure in Mongolia, a colleague couldn’t resist tossing a ribald remark of “enjoy ...

Hanukkah begins in the evening on December 25 and ends in the evening on January 2. While not the most religiously ...

“In the evenings, after I put him to bed, I’d find myself relaxing with a vodka,” she wrote, detailing a revelation made in an AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meeting.

A woman has claimed she went blind after drinking vodka shots at a backpacker's hostel where tragedy struck just days later. One British woman, 28-year-old lawyer Simone White, was among six ...

The Laos bartender who supplied free vodka shots to two backpackers who were subsequently taken ill has denied his drinks are responsible claiming they were bought from a certified distributor.

He said the women had joined more than 100 other guests for free shots of Lao vodka offered by the hostel two days earlier. He said no other guest reported any issue, adding that the alleged ...

They were served by a Toan, a bartender who told Laos police the vodka he poured came from a factory. He said he had not added anything or watered it down – even pouring a glass for himself and ...

A British woman has become the fifth person to die from a suspected mass poisoning with methanol in Laos. Simone White, from Orpington in Kent, was among the tourists who fell ill last week after ...