The music scene - LIV recommends Ceza and Duman, two of the city’s best live acts Ceza is a one-man hip-hop army responsible for introducing rap music to Turkey. Combining fast machine gun vocals over Arabesque melodies, he’s been described as the “Turkish Eminem” by those who want to pigeonhole h...

Oliver Keller has done stunts for 24, CSI, Spiderman – and now the Volvo C30. You’ve done this stunt video in the Volvo C30 – what was all that about? I always wanted to do a cool picture with a Volvo, so I said, “I want to jump one of your cars pretty high and pretty far,” and they said, “Well, ...

On the roadNot many people think of New Zealand as having a desert, but that’s what they call this central area south of Lake Taupo. It actually receives more rainwater per annum than Wellington, but its surface is porous and can’t hold the water (unlike Lake Taupo, the biggest freshwater lake in th...

When Karl Eirik Haug, a Norwegian journalist, decided to launch an English-language car magazine about people, he found he had a lot of explaining to do…"Carl’s Cars is a magazine about people.” That’s the mantra of this quirky, beautiful and idiosyncratic quarterly produced in Oslo, in English...

There's much more than snow and ice in the wild Scandinavian lands above the Arctic Circle. For four brief, snow-drenched months, the Ice Hotel is the coolest place to stay on earth. Born each December in the tiny Arctic village of Jukkasjärvi, and dying, or at least melting, at the end of April, it...

Mattias Klum’s expedition across seven continents to the far reaches of the natural world was in the spirit of the man it commemorates, Swedish ‘father of natural sciences’ Carl Linnaeus.“The Linnaeus Expedition was the idea of the filmmaker, Folke Rydén, and I,” says Swedish wildlife photographer M...

Ivy Singh-Lim’s organic food is giving the wealthy citizens of Singapore something to sink their teeth into. “The young have a duty to question and to make things better. Happy pigs become bacon and sausages; unhappy men do something about the world.” No one can accuse Ivy Singh-Lim of following the...

From tinkering with his own glasses at home, Dr Joshua Silver invented Adspecs, which he hopes will help improve the vision of impoverished people worldwide.OK, so they’re not the most fashionable eyewear, but these are special specs. “You can change the focus of these adaptive glasses by twisting ...

Considering an extension on your house? Here’s one example, Swedish style… Dutch architects Maartje Lammers and Boris Zeisser bought the original hut in Sweden’s Glaskogen nature reserve in 2000. But according to local bylaws the property could not be expanded more than 320 square feet, nor come wit...

It seems that quickie wedding services are no longer limited to Las Vegas. In 2006, 555 couples were married by the VIP Service at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, an increase of 13 per cent compared to the previous year and a record amount since the wedding service was initiated over 20 years ago. Coup...