silk road

After centuries of silence, vampires reappeared at the other end of the Silk Road, in the eastern Roman Empire, in accounts of dead women who preyed upon the living.

The president pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road online drug bazaar.

The island lies close to this century's Silk Road – the busy commercial shipping lanes carrying manufactured goods and materials from East Asia to Africa and beyond.

That Ma, an old Silk Road musical warrior, and the multifaceted Kidjo bonded is hardly surprising.

The 35-year-old travelled through France, across the Alps and onto the ancient Silk Road from northern Italy to Turkey before crossing the Caucuses where he hit his first diplomatic hurdle.