MICHAEL FISCHMAN recounts the time he experienced a lightness of being and became Shankara on the auspicious night of Maha Shivaratri I began to fall in love with India and with the colourful rituals ...

The auction app Fair Warning sold a $7.8 million Picasso drawing in a rare invite-only event during New York's marquee ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which ...

A playful baby elephant gave a Mexican girl a kiss with its trunk. Footage shows the juvenile jumbo cuddling with the swimsuit-clad tourist while they bathed in a river in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The ...