If another family Christmas stuck at home with the traditional food and celebrations fills you with dread, why not consider taking a holiday abroad. How about jetting off somewhere different…

Angry Birds have a new space coop. At NASA's invitation, the online game birds are roosting at Kennedy Space Center for the next one and a half years in an…

Is there anything more romantic than the dawn rising over just-fallen snow? Well, at 9am in a St Petersburg winter you wouldn’t know – the sun doesn’t stir his sleepy…

The recent discovery of a ceremonial fireplace believed to be more than 5,000 years old sheds light on one of the oldest populated sites in the Americas. The fireplace, dubbed…

The Faroe Islands are not your usual holiday destination. An obscure archipelago located about halfway between Iceland and Norway, there’s little other than the blustery Norwegian Sea between them and…

I was standing in the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, knee-deep in snow, when I chanced upon the beautiful Kungsträdgården Park, a hive of activity near the city centre.…

Whether you’re interested in Lincoln the president or Lincoln the movie, Washington is a downright thrilling destination. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States and one of…

Thousands of people are still coming to visit the western North Carolina forest where the movie The Hunger Games was filmed. The Times-News of Hendersonville reported the number of visitors…

After years of steady economic growth in Brazil, the dream of an on-the-cheap exotic vacation in Rio de Janeiro has melted faster than a Popsicle in tropical sunshine. Now, sipping…

With his twinkling eyes hidden behind sunglasses Walid Shaikh perches on a small stool, his olive features framed by scenes of the city he now lives in. Etchings in watercolour…