Looking to relax in luxury? Check out International Living's top monastery hotel finds throughout the world.

In the broad protected harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, General Sir William Howe organized the invasion fleet that captured New York City in 1776.

It's the world's largest hotel company, and as such, probably about as difficult to steer as an oil tanker. InterContinental Hotels owns around 3,800 hotels with more than 500,000 rooms, all spread out over at least 100 countries.

Why look at Africa as an investment destination? Because it's the last remaining emerging market investment frontier. If you missed investing in the Philippines in the 1980s and the Southeast Asian "Tiger economies" in the 1990s, this might just be your last chance to get in on a ground-floor opportunity.

The other day my 82-year-old friend, Martha, astonished me with the comment: "I hate being retired." She told me that if she could, she would go back to work immediately.

When living overseas, one of the most costly items can be your long-distance telephone bill as you talk to friends and family back home. This month we’ll look at one low-cost solution, Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, using a PC dialer. Next month, we’ll cover broadband phones.

This month, we go to the farthest corners of the globe to spotlight affordable property buys in cities as diverse as Queenstown, New Zealand, Punta del Este, Uruguay, and Limoges, France