Opinion

Tom Pro brings his family to the mountains

Kim Dotcom is everything wrong, and everything right, with the Internet today. Ruthlessly inventive and self-promoting — he changed his name to "Dotcom" from Schmitz, if that tells you anything — Dotcom is something of a pirate.

Standing on principle

It hasn't made headlines the way Idle No More or the start of the NHL season have, but slowly, quietly things are happening in the world of tourism that may increase the industry's profile and business in general.

'Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.' - Charles M. Schultz (creator of Peanuts) Everyone likes to get a little frightened. For some, it's the buzz they get from watching a horror flic through splayed fingers.

Going through the lists of top reviewed games from 2012 is a strange experience, with reviewers universally throwing their weight behind novel, low-budget indie-style titles rather than the top releases from all the major game studios.

If North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong-un, wanted to end the brutal and destructive tyranny that his father and grandfather imposed on the country, he would need support from abroad.

Loss felt every day

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." - C. S. Lewis We were deep in the heart of the Tatras Mountains. To the north, Poland.

In preparation for its annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, next week, the World Economic Forum — remember them? — recently released a list of the greatest risks to the world, as determined by a survey of more than 1,000 senior people