Red beans and rice, The Prailine Connection
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The world’s best city for food for 2025, according to Time Out
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A librarian ran off with a yacht captain in the summer of 1968. It was the start of an incredible love story
Cillian Murphy at the 96th Annual Oscars held at Ovation Hollywood on March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images)<br /><br /><br />PARK CITY, UTAH - JANUARY 19: Saoirse Ronan attends "The Outrun" Premiere during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival at Library Center Theatre on January 19, 2024 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)<br /><br /><br />A photo from the production of episode 406 of “Succession”. Photo: David M. Russell/HBO ©2022 HBO. All Rights Reserved.
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Irish names you’re probably saying wrong and how to pronounce them
Childhood summers in North Carolina inspired Bill Smith -- the chef at Crook's Corner restaurant in Chapel Hill, N.C. -- to come up with a tart treat that he named Atlantic Beach pie, pictured in North Bergen, N.J., on July 12, 2018. Reminiscent of lemon meringue pie, Atlantic Beach pie is creamier and denser. (Julia Gartland/The New York Times)
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Pies around the world: Sweet and savory goodness
A rendering of Gelephu International Airport, designed by Bjarke Ingels and to be built in Bhutan. The quiet Himalayan country, which famously charges a $100/per day tourist tax in order to keep visitor numbers low, has envisioned the Gelephu “mindfulness city” as the future of its travel industry.
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Bhutan’s beautiful new airport aims to transform the country forever
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A vast undersea tunnel is being built that will change the road and rail map of Europe
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Niseko Tourism
How this Japanese ski town became the powder capital of Asia – and maybe even the world
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He helped her connect with her birth family. They became best friends for life

NEWS

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Campaigner wants everyone to stop groping Dublin’s famous Molly Malone statue
Mar 19, 2025
Delta Air Lines Airbus A220-300 passenger aircraft spotted taxiing on the runway and taxiway of LaGuardia airport in NYC with a Boeing 737 of Delta in arriving in the background. The narrow body Airbus A220 formerly Bombardier CS300 BD-500-1A11 of Delta Airlines has the registration tail number N301DU and is powered by 2x PW jet engines. Delta Air Lines is a major airline carrier in the United States of America with headquarters and hub in Atlanta, Georgia, member of SkyTeam aviation alliance group. Delta is the second largest airline in the world with a fleet of 993 planes and ranked as the best in the US. LaGuardia Airport LGA, Queens, New York City, USA on November 12, 2024 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Man allegedly bit another passenger and assaulted others on plane landing at LAX
Mar 18, 2025
The first class carriage of new TGV INOUI train, pictured with lamps designed as part of a French-Japanese collaboration.
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France unveils ‘incredible’ new high-speed TGV trains with double-decker dining car
Mar 18, 2025
World’s first 3D-printed train station to be built in Japan in just six hours.
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The world’s first 3D-printed train station will take just six hours to build
Mar 18, 2025
This screengrab shows an American woman showing a wild baby wombat on the side of the road in Australia.
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US tourist who sparked outrage picking up wombat says she was acting out of concern for the animal
Mar 15, 2025
Forty of Air Canada's Boeing 737 MAX aircraft were found to have moving maps that had erased Israel.
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Air Canada apologizes after Israel erased from the map on some of its planes
Mar 14, 2025
A customer ladles some tofu out of a hotpot at a Haidilao restaurant in Shanghai.
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Chinese restaurant chain apologizes after men urinated into hotpot broth
Mar 13, 2025
The view from LeVel33 in Singapore.
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It’s official: This is the world’s highest urban microbrewery
Mar 13, 2025

Food & drink

Swedish meatballs with creamy gravy, mashed potatoes and lingonberry sauce.
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Sweden’s best food dishes: From waffles to Wallenbergers
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Video ‘Healthy and good looking’: Chinese consumers go bonkers for bagels 2:32
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This 200-year-old cottage in the middle of nowhere has been given a Michelin star
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A photographer visited McDonald’s in more than 55 countries. Here’s what he found

Stay

Exterior shot of The Cromwell in Las Vegas, NV taken on the evening of November 15, 2022
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This Vegas boutique hotel will soon become The Vanderpump
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Video This Mongolian startup can help you glamp like a nomad 3:47
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Four Seasons Koh Samui
‘White Lotus’ is expected to lure more tourists to Thailand. These are the locations featured on season 3 of the hit show
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The people swapping their homes with strangers instead of using hotels or Airbnbs

CHANCE ENCOUNTERS

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She arranged a date with a guy she met on a plane. When he didn’t show, she unexpectedly met her future husband
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She met a man on a rooftop bar on her first night in Paris. Her life changed forever
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She got back in touch with a vacation fling from over 15 years ago. What happened next was unexpected

SURVIVAL GUIDES

Hippo
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‘I was up to my waist down a hippo’s throat.’ He survived, and here’s his advice
ZAO, JAPAN - JANUARY 20: Snow trees are seen at Zao Ski Resort on January 20, 2018 in Yamagata, Japan. The natural creation is called Ôsnow monstersÕ, attract visitors. on January 20, 2018 in Zao, Japan. (Photo by Matt Roberts/Getty Images)
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You’re trapped in a blizzard. Do you know what to do next to survive?
A bison looks back as it crosses the road near Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park.
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You’ve come across a bison in the wild. It’s looking at you. Do you know what to do next?

flying advice

A flight information display system shows departure times at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on December 27, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia.
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What to do if your flight is canceled or delayed
New World Traveller on board the new Boeing 777-300ER, BAMC, Cardiff, UK, 12 August 2010 (Photo by Nick Morrish/British Airways)
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A flight attendant’s secrets to surviving long-haul flights
Luggages are seen at the Barajas Airport in Madrid on July 1, 2022. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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What to do if your luggage is delayed, lost, stolen or damaged
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
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