Lonely Planet has revealed its top 10 destinations for 2020
Image credit: Instagram.com/shabias As the undisputed experts in all things travel, Lonely Planet guides have been required reading for prospective travellers for decades. Well worn copies can be found in all corners of the globe, and a Lonely Planet recommendation can make a hotel or tour operator’s business for life. The Lonely Planet travel experts…
How Daniel Lee is weaving his modern magic into Bottega Veneta
Within 10 minutes of our sitting down for lunch at a fancy Mayfair restaurant, the maître d’ approaches our table and offers Daniel Lee a black blazer. You see, his informal (though box-fresh) plain white T-shirt is deemed unsatisfactory, not meeting the dress code requirements and possibly offending the club’s other diners. It’s ironic that…
Controversial Amazon fertility figurines stolen from Rome church and dumped in Tiber
Pope Francis’s landmark conference on Catholicism in the Amazon has taken a vindictive turn after indigenous Amazonian fertility statuettes were stolen from a church near St Peter’s Basilica and hurled into the Tiber. The theft was carried out by ultra-conservative Catholics who regarded the female fertility figures as being pagan. One conservative Catholic website condemned…
Three people hospitalised by chemical leak on board American Airlines plane
Three people have been hospitalised after a cleaning product leaked on an American Airlines flight forcing it to make an emergency landing in Dublin. The plane was less than an hour into its flight from London Heathrow to Philadelphia when two crew members fell unconscious due to the powerful smell. Several passengers complained of burning eyes and…
Activists truck 9,000 hay bales into Zimbabwe national park as drought leaves over 70 elephants dead
Activists have begun hauling bales of hay into Zimbabwe’s struggling national parks in response to a drought that has already seen dozens of elephants starve to death. Vets for Animal Welfare Zimbabwe, an NGO, had trucked 9,000 bales of hay to Mana Pools, a national park in the north of the country, Radio France International…
Pentagon readies for surprise US withdrawal from Afghanistan in wake of Syria drawdown
The Pentagon has begun planning for a quick pull out of American troops from Afghanistan, in case Donald Trump should repeat his sudden withdrawal of forces from Syria. Military chiefs have begun contingency plans to evacuate forces in as little as weeks in case the US president orders a withdrawal. Sources told NBC News that the…
Shamima Begum appeals against loss of British citizenship but Home Office suggests plight is her ‘own fault’
Shamima Begum, the Isil bride, chose to go to Syria and can only blame “her own actions” if she is in danger, the Government said on Tuesday as it argued against her return to the UK. The Bethnal Green schoolgirl fled to join the terror group when she was 15 with two other friends and…
Malta buys elegant villa that the Queen and Prince Philip once called home
An elegant villa in Malta that was once home to the Queen and Prince Philip will be restored to its former glory and turned into a museum after being bought by the Maltese government. The Queen has said that the time she spent living in Villa Guardamangia was among the happiest periods of her life.…
Three people hospitalised by chemical leak on board American Airlines plane
Three people have been hospitalised after a cleaning product leaked on an American Airlines flight forcing it to make an emergency landing in Dublin. The plane was less than an hour into its flight from London Heathrow to Philadelphia when two crew members fell unconscious due to the powerful smell. Several passengers complained of burning eyes and…
Far-Right death threat to German politician
Police in Germany are investigating suspected far-Right death threats against a senior politician from Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat party (CDU) ahead of regional elections this weekend. The threats are being taken seriously in the wake of this month’s far-Right attack on a synagogue in Halle and the assassination of a politician by a suspected far-Right…