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Flight Centre’s year in travel 2024: where you went and where you’re headed next…

Your ticket to insider travel scoops, data bites, and expert predictions for the year ahead

Best tours for over 50s: Your next adventure awaits

Flight Centre brings you loads of tours suitable for over 50s which let you see the world with likeminded travellers in a similar age bracket

Philly gets its groove back

It’s just 140km from New York, but Philadephia is finally stepping out of the Big Apple’s shadow — and its baseball team is better too.

‘No porno on my bus stops’

Director Kevin Smith has made a movie with such a bothersome title he cannot even place ads for it in some places.

Clinton clinches Pennsylvania primary

A victorious Hillary Clinton convincingly kept her White House quest alive on Tuesday, triumphing over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania’s rancorous Democratic primary. ”Today here in…

Obama, Clinton on the defensive in tense debate

Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tried to explain recent controversial remarks during a tense debate on Wednesday, with Obama accusing Clinton of…

Obama says Clinton’s no Rocky

Democratic White House contender Barack Obama on Wednesday mocked rival Hillary Clinton’s claim to be a ”Rocky” fighter for the working classes, as polls suggested he is punching…

Obama wins support of former congressman

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday won the endorsement of Lee Hamilton, a former Indiana congressman who is a leading United States authority on foreign…

Clinton, Obama assail McCain on economy

Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama assailed potential White House opponent John McCain on the economy on Tuesday, accusing the Republican of favoring the wealthy and…

Piasecki was ‘pioneer in establishing helicopter industry’

Aviation pioneer Frank Piasecki, inventor of the tandem-rotor helicopter used in troop-transport missions and land and sea rescue flights, has died. He was 88. Igor Sikorsky…

Amish girl asked to be shot first, woman says

One of the girls who died in Pennsylvania’s Amish schoolhouse massacre asked the killer to shoot her first in an apparent bid to save younger girls. Rita Rhoads, a nurse-midwife…

Rare disease in five children traced to sperm donor

A sperm donor passed an extremely rare and dangerous genetic ailment to five children born to four couples, doctors reported on Friday in a case that exposes a gap in the…

‘She gets the air in any way she can’

A 20-year-old woman has made it big with the Philadelphia Orchestra — she’s been hired to be its tuba player, a job normally held by men in major orchestras. ”The fact that she…

Sports, beer and waxing at male salons

Steven Wooke takes a swig from a bottle of Heineken as his left hand rests on a small table, his fingers spread out like a fan of playing cards. He’s getting a manicure — or hand…

Corpse show draws crowds, controversy

When the corpses come to town, anything can happen. Police seized a few of them during a raid in Taiwan. In Los Angeles, visitors gawked round-the-clock — and one was stolen. In…

No anonymous witnesses in Cosby lawsuit, says court

Women who plan to testify against actor and comedian Bill Cosby in another woman’s sex assault lawsuit will not have their identities shielded by the court, a judge ruled. A…

It’s all cereal. Seriously.

How’s this for creative thinking? A cafe has opened with pyjama-clad servers pouring cereal day and night, topping it off with everything from fruit to malted milk balls, and…

Carmakers try to steer asbestos cases to court

In an attempt to rein in soaring legal costs, the Big Three automakers have been fighting to get thousands of lawsuits filed by people who say they were sickened by asbestos in…