There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.

Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations.