PARIS — In the days after Hamas struck Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron made a national address vowing his “unreserved solidarity” with Israel.
A month later, he swerved to redress the balance, organizing a conference to support Gaza, joining calls for a cease-fire. In the days and months following Israel’s ground operation and airstrikes, Macron has amped up his support for Gaza, organizing aid airdrops with Jordan and even dispatching a helicopter carrier turned hospital ship to treat a trickle … Read more
Meet the couple who have been travelling non-stop for 15 years, visiting a total of 85 countries to date – and find out how they’ve financed their adventures without using the bank of mum and dad.
Lauren Winslow-Llewelyn, 34, and Craig Hubbard, 41, have shared their non-stop travel approach to life – valuing time over material things.
So far, their highlights include horse riding in Kyrgyzstan, winter in Arctic Norway, a black bear leaning on their van in Patagonia and
Ever visited a place and felt ripped off or disappointed by what you found?
Well, a stream of disgruntled travelers have shared what they believe to be the world’s biggest tourist traps, in a bid to prevent others from making the same mistake.
A Reddit thread titled ‘What place is the biggest tourist trap?’ has garnered more than 4,500 comments to date, with a mix of places across the globe making the list.
One traveler advised against going to see
It is a question that frequently pops up on pub quizzes: how many of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World can you name?
Perhaps more pertinently, how many are still standing?
The answer, as a new book reveals, is only one: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World, by historian Bettany Hughes, tells the story of each of the glittering marvels of engineering.
Five of the six that are now lost to the past
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Follow Mail Sport’s live blog for the latest score, team news and updates as hosts Ivory Coast take on Nigeria followed by Egypt vs Ghana in a bumper day of Africa Cup of Nations action.
Serene desert landscapes and a treasure trove of pyramid tombs still being discovered; this was Egypt a century ago, as a selection of fascinating vintage photos show.
A gallery of black and white snaps selected by DailyMail.com reveal what the ancient country looked like before tourism had taken hold.
It’s predicted that more than 13 million visitors descended on Egypt this year, but 100 years ago the 5,000-year-old civilization was still being discovered by westerners, who were floored by the
Syria, Iran and Afghanistan are considered high-risk for Westerners to visit today – but when one European travelled around them in the 1970s, he discovered ‘heaven nearly everywhere’.
Dutch native Frank van den Berge, 73, took incredible photographs of his time in these countries, showing Afghanistan before the Taliban, Iran in an era when people dressed in a ‘Western style’ and landmarks that have since vanished – such as the Buddhas of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban
Thick plumes of smoke could be seen drifting over the top of buildings today in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Khan Yunis, the focus of recent fighting in a war that is now in its 13th week.
Fighting raged today across Gaza, where displaced Palestinians are ‘exhausted’, with no end in sight to the war between the besieged territory’s Hamas rulers and Israel.
The enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry said that 165 Gazans were killed over the past 24 hours,
The first group of hostages have been released from Gaza after 48 days of captivity as part of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas that went into effect this morning.
Thirteen Israeli women and children and 12 Thai hostages, who were kidnapped and taken into the territory by the terror group in its October 7 attack on Israel, were finally freed today after an agonising wait.
Israeli media reported the hostages had been transferred by Hamas to the Red
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
The annual U.N. climate summit that starts November 30 has become one of the biggest diplomatic setpieces in the global political calendar.
Organizers are expecting more than 70,000 people to descend upon Dubai’s Expo City: activists, billionaires, presidents, Indigenous leaders, business executives, monarchs and diplomats from every corner of the world. A few will hold sway over the outcome of the talks. Some will make noise
