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Eight million British holidaymakers have had personal property stolen in the last five years.

A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious "explosive decompression," officials said.

Conventional wisdom says we are belt-tightening in a summer of high prices and dimishing stock returns and mortgage crunches. Well, yes, but Americans are still flocking to Europe...

A high-altitude rescue helicopter safely plucked two stranded Italian climbers from one of the world's highest mountains on Thursday, officials said.

Switzerland warned its citizens today not to travel to Libya, saying the North African nation has been retaliating ever since Swiss police arrested the youngest son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for ...

Though given the name "black monastery" for the darkly clad monks who inhabited the island in the seventh century, Noirmoutier, off the west coast of France, touts sunny beaches, bright green grass and ...

With the violent insurgency waning, Iraq is working harder to promote its tourism industry, but the United States warns travelers against making the trip.

Posters displayed on bulletin boards in the neighbourhood that includes tourist magnet the Forbidden City, and which will host Olympics boxing events, counsel locals against a wide range of potentially awkward ...

Although a diverse crowd of foreign investors has been feasting on New York properties for decades, a new wave of Middle Eastern buyers appears to have an insatiable appetite for the Big Apple's biggest ...

Rich with thousands of years of history, but divided by two cultures, Cyprus is really two islands in one, both breathtaking in distinct ways.

See our slideshow of the World's Scariest Roads. From Bolivia to Siberia, roads that weren't made for a leisurely Sunday drive.

Four bomb blasts, claimed by Basque separatists militants ETA, have struck two seaside resorts in northern Spain, police said, in a fresh offensive by the group against tourism targets.

Pianissimo, pianissimo. That's how morning comes on Campo Santa Maria Formosa. Pigeons dawdle around a trash can.

Last year, my French friend Claude told me there were wine caves you could drive through in Moldova that had extraordinary wine collections.

This Olympic summer, Beijing is buzzing. All over the city, iconic buildings designed by some of the world's best-known architects are changing the skyline.

City Hall is banning all those enjoying a Roman holiday this summer from snacking near the sights in Rome's historical center with fines up to $80. Officials say they want to preserve artistic treasures and ...

The 10 years that I spent as an American living in London felt like one long holiday.

Dozens of fun-seekers have been injured after a theme park ride collapsed in the city of Gothenburg, in western Sweden.

Westerners were getting too racy on the beaches of this Persian Gulf tourist haven, and a police crackdown on topless sunbathing, nudity and other indecent behavior has resulted in 79 arrests in recent days.

Tropical Storm Bertha kicked up deadly surf as far away as New Jersey on Sunday and threatened to lash Bermuda with rain and high winds in the next 24 hours.