| Top 10 stopover stays | | Experience lavish pools, great cuisines, go souk shopping, relax in splendid spas, and even learn a martial art form or two, at these pick of places | | Murder, she wrote | | Criminal profiler Pat Brown believes Cleopatra didn’t choose to make a quick exit with a snake bite, but that she met a crueller fate | | Silent Expressions | | Three artists come together to display their works that make a statement — loud and clear — without making a sound | | Stretch the
celebrations! | | ‘Fitness parties’ are the new rage as revellers mark milestones by working up a sweat, instead of knocking a few back | | Keeping the spark alive | | John O’Farrell’s The Man Who Forgot His Wife — about a man who did just that — is poignant, yet deliriously funny, and offers solid marital advice
you won’t forget in a hurry | | Thai Tripping | | A short trip to Phuket and Bangkok is just what the doctor ordered for mind, body and soul | | 'Regret is for amateurs’ | | Jeet Thayil, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, drew on his own experiences as a ‘functional junkie’ for his award-winning novel | | Rare portrait of queen | | For decades, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I hung in a small garden gift shop on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. | |
