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Dubai vows to focus on tourism ties with China - Travel

9/20/2018, 7:56:23 AM
undefined ✔ Activities including city-wide Chinese New Year celebrations will be launched to be better able to cater to Chinese traveler requests, according to Almarri ✔ In May, the agreement was expanded further, with Huawei Mobile Services agreeing to offer useful and accessible content about Dubai, in particular through the company's newly-updated SkyTone travel and roaming apps


Sanya to have direct flights to Norway capital

9/20/2018, 7:36:46 AM
Sanya's tourism development commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with KinaReiser As, Norway's biggest and most well-known travel agency, on Sept 17, regarding a new flight marketing strategy between the city in Hainan province and Norway's capital Oslo.


Beautiful villages lost to time: Italy's incredible ghost towns

9/20/2018, 6:53:26 AM
Beautiful villages lost to time: Italy's incredible ghost towns ✔ Due to natural disasters and urbanisation, Italy is filled with abandoned villages – often is remarkably beautiful locations ✔ 17 amazing photographs of Italy from space Pentedattilo, Calabria Founded as a colony of the Greek city of Chalcis in 640BC, Pentedattilo sits in spectacular surroundings in the southern region of Calabria


Business class passenger's glamorous mid-air snap sparks outrage

9/20/2018, 6:52:22 AM
Hong Kong Instagram influencer Harimao Lee has sparked outrage online after she shared a glamorous mid-air photograph enjoying business class on an international flight. ✔ Travel bloggers often go above and beyond to capture the ultimate picture-perfect snaps for their sumptuous feeds ✔ Who in their right mind brings fairy lights on a plane?' One wrote ✔ Another commented: 'How are you going to star gaze with all that light inside the cabin?' One slammed: 'This is ridiculous! This sort of staged nonsense is a joke


ITV'S Victoria Jenna Coleman feel for mothers

9/20/2018, 4:15:54 AM
JENNA Coleman claims filming two dramas surrounded by screaming babies has not put her off motherhood. ✔ It felt quite natural to me holding the babies, but maybe I am used to working with children now ✔ Jenna’s character Joanna and her husband Alistair (Ewen Leslie) travel to Australia with son Noah, but he goes missing and the couple find themselves at the centre of a media storm


BBC weather forecast UK: TURBULENT today as GALE-FORCE winds return with a VENGEANCE

9/20/2018, 5:55:39 AM
THE UK is set for more disruptions today as strong winds and scattered showers continue to bulldoze their way through the country, with Storm Ali will only adding to Britons misery as it promises to bring intensified gusts to the nation. ✔ The heavy downpours could also result in some localised flooding, meanwhile in the south there will be a lot of dry weather and sunshine ✔ As a result the odds have been slashed on this month ending as the wettest September on record and the wind speed to reach as high as 100mph in mainland UK


Sole searching: the Lyke Wake Walk, North York Moors

9/20/2018, 5:42:18 AM
Why would anyone want to hike 40 miles in less than a day? Because this ‘death march’ is the Yorkshire equivalent of climbing Everest ✔ This is no exhausted collapse; it is the prelude to a song ✔ I was in an awful state when I finished but the exhilaration was tremendous ✔ It stretches the body of the average person to its absolute limit ✔ Browse Guardian Holidays to find a range of fantastic trips


Lot: the corner of the south-west France the British haven't discovered

9/20/2018, 7:51:32 AM
Let’s put it this way: ✔ Earlier this month, that was in the Lot valley in south-west France, east of Cahors ✔ There’s the river down below on one side, and cliffs rising on the other, frequently with overhangs ✔ This was no place for a person with the head for heights of a halibut


Pound to euro exchange rate: Sterling struggles amid house price data and inflation high

9/20/2018, 6:57:53 AM
THE POUND struggled to retain its strength against the euro after improving thanks to house price data and the inflation rate rise, before dropping following consumer spending. ✔ Pound to euro exchange rate: Sterling is currently trading at €1.125 (Image: Bloomberg) London was the only region to experience a drop, with the rest of the UK increasing between 1.8 per cent and 5.6 per cent ✔ If some kind of exit deal appears likely then we could see Sterling soar


RHOD: D'Andra Simmons screams at LeeAnne Locken after feeling betrayed

9/20/2018, 7:09:44 AM
D'Andra Simmons screamed at LeeAnne Locken on Wednesday's episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas,saying she felt 'betrayed' after confiding in her. ✔ 'The social workers will continue to check in on us once a month, to make sure I'm not too bats*** crazy,' she explained ✔ Business school: Stephanie Hollman's husband Travis was going back to school for a business degree Getting anxious: The reality star admitted she starts feeling anxious when left by herself


The Coddling of the American Mind review – how elite US liberals have turned rightwards

9/20/2018, 6:44:33 AM
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s book sets out to rescue students from ‘microaggressions’ and identity politics. But perhaps they merely resist change that might undermine them ✔ In the decade since the 2008 global financial crisis, while all other forms of consumer debt have shrunk, student loan debt has tripled ✔ In fact, the data shows that it was precisely the better-off people in poor places, perhaps not so unlike these famous professors in the struggling academy, who elected Trump; but never mind


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