Famous fans like Frank Ocean and Travis Scott put Pierre Paulin’s Dune sofa back on the map. But its rise to furniture fame ...

In New York, private restaurants in luxury towers are a popular amenity. The public cannot eat there, and residents only drop ...

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Japanese toilets - equipped with music players, automatic flushes, and heated seats - are clearly not afraid of making a splash with their innovative designs. But these cutting edge seats have an ...

EIGHT party-list groups are poised to win at least one congressional seat, based on a voter preference survey by Octa Research. The fourth quarter survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews ...

Which Seats Are Safest on Commercial Flights? A 2015 assessment of aircraft accidents conducted by Time magazine found that the safest seats on a plane were at the rear, specifically the back ...

A seating plan shows that the only survivors of the crash were flight attendants who were sat at the very back of the plane. Advert Cabin crew are often seats at the very front or very back of the ...

Teenager James Alonso won the tournament's biggest event - solving the classic 3x3 cube at speed with an average of 6.3 seconds. Speedcubing has been popular since the 1980s and the world record ...

And discounters like Frontier, JetBlue and Southwest are rushing to add new spacious seats and other amenities in an effort to cash in. “People don’t like to board last and not have luggage space.