A fascinating festive map reveals the cities where people most want to spend Christmas 2023 around the world – and London is number one.
On the map, generated using Google search data for common Christmas travel-related keywords, countries are named followed by the city where their residents most want to spend the festive period.
Searches such as ‘Christmas in London’ and ‘things to do in London for Christmas’ are top in 20 countries including Spain, Netherlands, Canada, and Australia.
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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing yet again as the final off-ramp before catastrophe. But war, money squabbles and political headaches back home are already crowding the fate of the planet from the agenda.
The breakdown of the Earth’s climate has for decades been the most important yet somehow least urgent of global crises,
Angry anti-Israel protests have erupted across the world today after Hamas leaders demanded thousands of demonstrators take to the streets and target Israeli and US embassies ahead of an imminent ground invasion of Gaza.
The demonstrations were staged after Friday prayers in Muslim communities across the world – including in Bangladesh, South Korea, Egypt and Iraq – with thousands of protesters condemning Israel’s attacks on Gaza and showing support for the two million Palestinians who are trapped in the war-torn
Holidaymakers were today warned about the dangers of parasites abroad after a record number of Brits were struck down last year.
A post-Covid travel boom to exotic destinations may be to blame, experts say.
Nearly 1,000 cases of travel-associated parasitic infections were detected in the UK last year, up from an average of 870 pre-pandemic.
Such illnesses include leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and strongyloidiasis, which are spread by insect bites or parasitic worms.
The bugs can infect organs and trigger long-term damage
A thrifty couple who sold their home and valuables so they could move to Bali say their rent is now just a dreamy £2,000 a year.
Matt Dearing, 36, and partner, Carlie Donnelley, 35, originally from Manchester, took the bold step so they could live ‘financially free’ after growing tired of ‘living to work’.
The couple didn’t think twice about selling their three-bedroom home for £365,000, or swapping a life of constant bills for the year-round tourism and hot weather
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Russia said Monday it will closely follow talks on Ukraine set to take place in Saudi Arabia early next month.
Saudi Arabia is planning to host peace talks including Ukraine, Western nations and selected major developing countries in August, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
Russia — which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and continues to pound Ukraine with missile attacks — was not invited
A Covid variant seen in Indonesia might be the most mutated version of the virus ever recorded, scientists think.
The morphed version of Delta — collected from a patient swab in Jakarta — has 113 unique mutations.
Thirty-seven of the alterations affect the spike protein, which the coronavirus uses to latch onto humans.
For comparison, Omicron carries around 50 mutations.
Virus-trackers brandished the unnamed strain the ‘most extreme’ they’ve ever seen.
A new version of the Covid Delta variant collected
Ban Ki-Moon is the 8th U.N. secretary-general and Club de Madrid honorary member. Winnie Byanyima is the executive director of UNAIDS.
India has long been known as the “pharmacy of the world,” producing generic medicines at prices that other developing countries and global institutions can afford. The country was the single largest supplier of pharmaceutical products to Africa in 2018, and accounted for a fifth of the continent’s pharmaceutical imports.
However, as the European Union now negotiates free
A woman bagged her family a piece of paradise after she accidentally booked an entire hotel.
Jasmine Gordon, 26, from Somerset, planned on booking a dream holiday for her family, especially her grandparents, who had always wanted to go to Bali.
Booking in advance, Jasmine originally thought she had booked an Airbnb that would fit seven members of her family.
But she got a lot more than she bargained for when she discovered a week before departure that she’d booked
