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A sunny beach in the Seychelles, showing the clear turquoise ocean, white sand and palm trees.

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Travel March 4, 2025 By Ellie Hutchings

A view of a swimming pool at an adults only hotel in Marbella, Spain

Europe's best 'no kids' hotels – one is only £61 a night

Travel March 3, 2025 By Ellie Hutchings

A view of a swimming pool at an adults only hotel in Marbella, Spain

The best child-free hotels in Europe – one is just £61 a night

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A sunny beach in the Seychelles, showing the clear turquoise ocean, white sand and palm trees.

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Crystal sea water and golden sandy beach surrounding the promontory of Cofete,

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Travel February 26, 2025 By Anushka Suharu

Beach of Carvoeiro in the Algarve, Portugal

7 dreamy destinations where you can get a glass of bubbly for under a fiver

Travel January 20, 2025 By Freya Graham

Aerial view of Trunk Bay in the US Virgin Islands, on a sunny day.

9 of the best beach destinations to beat the January blues

Travel January 14, 2025 By Ellie Hutchings

Bird's eye view of City of Dreams Mediterranean.

This European hotel will pay for your holiday if you end up with bad weather

Travel December 2, 2024 By Janani Venkateswaran

The British European Airways Cyprus flight de Havilland Comet plane pictured on tarmac in the 1960s, an imase inset of the plane interior and a woman who was killed in the explosion and crash into the Mediterranean on October 12, 1964.

A plane exploded over the Mediterranean — 57 years later we don't know why

World October 12, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen

Luxury yacht owners are charging exorbitant amount to flee warzone

World October 3, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva

A passenger plane taking off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport in June.

List of airlines suspending flights to Beirut after conflict escalates

World September 25, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen

Beautiful landscape near of Nissi beach and Cavo Greco in Ayia Napa, Cyprus island, Mediterranean Sea. Amazing blue green sea and sunny day.

Beach with ‘crystal clear’ water crowned least crowded to head to this autumn

Travel September 18, 2024 By Eleanor Noyce

The 'uninhabitable' heat of Kuwait City, where temps reach 54C and birds fall from the sky

Travel July 20, 2024 By Faima Bakar

A scenic view of Girne city in Cyprus

Travel warning for popular European holiday spot as temperatures hit 40°C

World July 9, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva

Firefighters of the Cyprus Forests Department extinguish a fire that broke out in the village of Choulou in western Cyprus on June 12, 2024. Cyprus called for outside assistance on June 11 after several villages were evacuated in the southwestern district of Paphos as a large wildfire raged out of control fuelled by strong winds during a heatwave on the Mediterranean island. The fire broke out east of the Yiolou community, triggering a national emergency plan that saw civil defence evacuate homes and five villages that were at risk, authorities said. (Photo by Iakovos HATZISTAVROU / AFP) (Photo by IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP via Getty Images)

Two people die of heatstroke in Cyprus as wildfires rage in 40°C temperatures

World June 16, 2024 By Danny Rigg

World’s hottest city where temps reach 54C and birds fall out of the sky

Travel July 20, 2024 By Faima Bakar

Map shows flooded Spanish tourist hotspots as wild weather hits Europe

World June 12, 2024 By Brooke Davies

British woman in hospital after being bitten by venomous snake on holiday

World April 16, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

Boy, 13, left with 'weeping' burns after getting henna tattoo on holiday

UK December 27, 2023 By Katie Boyden

Cypriot police cars transport Israeli tourists to the Famagusta district court in Paralimni, to stand trial for allegedly gang-raping a young British woman in a popular Cypriot holiday resort a month earlier, on October 5, 2023. Police said the defendants face charges of rape, sexual coercion, forced sexual intercourse, sexual harassment, abduction and indecent assault against a woman. (Photo by Etienne TORBEY / AFP) (Photo by ETIENNE TORBEY/AFP via Getty Images)

Five men 'dragged British tourist from pool party and raped her in her room'

World December 19, 2023 By Ben Ashton

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