As overcrowded European destinations struggle to deal with hordes of travellers, some places not only offer an alternative to mass tourism but actively want you to visit.

Released in 1946, Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life was derided as an "over-sentimental" Christmas yarn, but its bold exploration of mental health issues resonates today.

The brain often blurs the senses – a fact that marketers often use in the design of food packaging. And AIs appear to do the same.

At this time every year, slow cookers are set up at Christmas market stands and on bistro bars throughout France, perfuming the air with warm, spiced wine.

Matilda Welin sets herself the task of creating an affordable, environmental and long-lasting Christmas jumper, choosing recycled materials over fast fashion.

Chris Davenport is a born New Englander who learned his craft on the region's best slopes. Here are his favourite places to ski in the north-east, from Jay Peak to Stowe.

Writer and archaeologist Mike Pitts digs up clues to the mystery of the circle's long-lost stones.

The Oregon Trail was once the most widely distributed software in US schools. It gripped a generation and changed gaming forever, but debates rage on about the history it depicts.