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How can yoga help keep positivity?

Confidence takes a certain type of confidence

Folklore about the curative powers of holy springs and healing waters can be found all over the world, while many of Europe's holy wells still draw pilgrims today. Are they survivals of an ancient tradition or a modern-day, invented one to plug a spiritual gap? Ted Harrison investigates.

Long before Damien Hirst, skeletal bling was all the rage across 16th-century Catholic Europe. Paul Koudounaris travels to Bavaria and beyond, where he discovers some amazing jewelled skeletons that take us back to a golden age of mediumistic clerics and dodgy relics...All photographs by the author.

What to do if lighting strikes when you're on the water

The winning story in our 2011 Ultimate Adventure Contest

I got this job with Dokken

Hot girls in club wear, head-banging

Long a haven for spa-goers and outdoor adventures, this once-sleepy Napa town is remaking itself.

When you can only take one bottle home, how do you decide? In search of the ultimate single malt.