As travellers continue to swap rushed airport dashes for slower, more meaningful journeys, a new trend is gathering pace: Combining luxury cruises with iconic rail adventures. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Part of the wider slow travel movement, cruise and rail holidays are booming as holidaymakers look to see more of a destination…

Each year, the eastern end of Long Island gets louder and livelier with new bars, clubs and even speakeasies. This summer, the scene promises to sizzle with a series of openings that offer different levels of fun. If martinis and mahjong are your dream night out, we know just the…

Published on 02/06/2026 – 12:26 GMT+2•Updated 12:29 As the peak summer holiday season gets underway, the UK government is considering a tougher approach to disruptive airline passengers – one that could see unruly travellers banned from flying with any carrier, not just a single airline. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Under proposals being…

DEAR ABBY: I suspect my wife had an affair some years ago. She was spending time with this man in a local bar on weekends for quite a while. I recently confronted her with the rumors going around, and she says she did nothing wrong. When she began talking about…

Iberia has stopped operating its direct route between Madrid and Havana, a historic link between Spain and Cuba that will remain suspended at least until November. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The airline attributes the decision to fuel supply problems on the island and to the deterioration in operating conditions, a situation that…

Some 500 kilometres off the coast of West Africa lies Cabo Verde, an island nation that’s making headlines after qualifying for its first World Cup this summer. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Geographically, the country’s islands form part of Macaronesia, which means “Islands of Bliss”, alongside Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Azores,…

After more than 30 years, the FIFA World Cup is back in Boston, Massachusetts – or at least it’s near to one of America’s great sporting cities. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT World Cup games will be hosted in the small town of Foxborough – about 30 miles south of “Beantown” – for…

It’s tick season, and if you’re a homeowner in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, Middle Atlantic, Ohio River Valley, and even the South, don’t be surprised if they’re particularly active in your area.  Not only are ticks a nuisance, but they’ve also led to a growing number of emergency room visits. In fact, the Centers…

It was ripe for the picking.  Banana bandits scored a sweet steal worth a whopping $6.2 million, nabbing the yellow, crescent-shaped centerpiece of “Comedian,” a masterpiece by Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan, from the Centre Pompidou-Metz museum in France this weekend.  The fruity theft comes just one year after a gallery visitor was…

This is how America’s cheapest gas retailer keeps its Cost-co so low. With Middle East tensions sending gas prices surging, shoppers have turned to an albeit inconvenient source for a low-cost refill — Costco. The Big Box store’s discount fueling stations, where gas on average runs 30 cents cheaper than…