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Starry travelers: Moths use celestial navigation for epic journeys, scientists discover
A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometres every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said, the first time this talent has been discovered in an invertebrate covering vast distances. When temperatures start rising...

Stockholm Diamond League schedule and start times including Mondo Duplantis
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Drunk Swedish tourist collapses in Pattaya venue parking lot, unnoticed and run over by car; guards and wife rush to help
Intoxicated Swedish tourist collapses in Pattaya parking lot, seriously injured after being accidentally run over by car. PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya rescue unit received a report of a serious accident where a car ran over a person, causing severe...

Vin Folk is a Michelin-guide restaurant in Hermosa Beach
A new must-visit restaurant near the beach has star quality by Richard Foss There is a famous but incorrect quote attributed to an otherwise forgotten Commissioner of the United States Patent Office, who allegedly stated in 1900 that his...

What if Cancún resorts gave discounts to tourists who donated blood? Mexico’s quiet healthcare crisis might have an unlikely solution
What if Cancún resorts gave discounts to tourists who donated blood? Mexico’s quiet healthcare crisis might have an unlikely solution Cancún is famous for its turquoise water, all-inclusive resorts, and endless margaritas—but beneath the surface...

INSETE: Greece Ranks Among Top 5 Travel Picks Across All Key Markets for Summer 2025
Greece continues to rank among the top five summer destinations for 2025 across nearly all key international tourism markets, according to a new study by INSETE, the research body of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE). The ranking, based on...
What it's like to celebrate midsummer in Sweden: A smorgasbord, maypole and partying into the night
“You don’t normally have hot food at Midsummer: it’s about potatoes and herring,” says Malin, co-host of the Midsummer celebration. Photograph by Alamy, Johner ImagesThis article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As my Swedish...

Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis asks that her team be given more respect
It’s been a bumpy run-in for Banyana Banyana as they aim to defend the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) title, which they won for the first time in 2022. Off-field administrative issues have threatened to derail South Africa’s title defence...

Thailand Privilege Card wins quality award in Stockholm
Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd. (TPC), the operator of the Thailand Privilege Card membership program under the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), has received the ESQR’s Quality Choice Prize 2025. The award was presented at a ceremony held at...
The 'Scheffler we know' back in Travelers Round 1
FRISCO, Texas – No LPGA player has been involved more in the making of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship than Stacy Lewis. In fact, when this championship first came together a decade ago, former KPMG chair John Veihmeyer said the firm’s...

Volvo XC90 T8 – The Speedy, Safe, Swedish SUV!
Andy Harris Motoring and Property Editor @ytimesmotoring 12:00 AM 21st June 2025 cars Many of us reach the stage in life when a growing family dictates the choice of car. For some that means a conventional five-seat family car does not suffice,...

Watch: Swedish tourist’s ride takes a shocking turn– Here's what happened on the Delhi highway
A Swedish tourist, Jonas, faced a harrowing experience in India when an Uber Intercity driver allegedly abandoned him on a Delhi highway after demanding extra cash. Jonas shared a video on Instagram, recounting how the driver left him stranded...

This new Primus camping stove is lighter than your Garmin watch and boils water in under 4 minutes, so you can "move quickly and explore further"
If your idea of cooking up a hot meal at camp involves effortless stove set up, boiling water in two shakes of a lamb's tail and a delicious freeze-dried meal in front of you in under 10 minutes, there's a new minimalist camping stove in town and...

What it's like to celebrate midsummer in Sweden
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As my Swedish army bike rattles down the last hill, I place a hand on the basket to secure my Midsummer contributions: two king-size sausage rolls and a green bean and orange salad....

Letter from Barcelona: Rebalancing tourism in the age of protest
On the weekend after Phocuswright Europe, thousands of protestors across southern Europe took to the streets to demonstrate their unhappiness over overtourism. “Your holidays, my misery,” they chanted in Barcelona, as they held up slogans such as...

COLUMN: ‘Beach Girls’ remember man behind ‘Boys’ after Brian Wilson’s death
Elizabeth Causey, left, and mother Miki Fluker (Photo courtesy of Miki Fluker) Miki Fluker first heard the song “Surf City” when she was 11 years old in the summer of 1963. No, she wasn’t hanging 10 catching a wave on a surfboard in landlocked...

Holland teacher awarded grant to travel abroad, create new lessons
HOLLAND — A teacher from a local elementary school will travel abroad this summer to visit the setting of a book used in her classroom and create new learning experiences for students. Joy Kooyer, a third grade teacher at Holland’s West...

Driver Hits Intoxicated Swedish Man Lying on Pattaya Nightlife Ground
PATTAYA — A 54-year-old Swedish tourist was critically injured early Friday morning after being run over by a car while lying intoxicated on the ground in a nightclub parking lot in Pattaya. The incident occurred at 3.20 a.m. on June 20 in the...

Speaking French, Swedish, German… the migrants booted out of EU in asylum crackdown & on small boats to ‘soft touch’ UK
MORE than 2,000 migrants are massing in the Jungle camp outside Dunkirk in northern France. And their aim — to cross the Channel and take advantage of “soft touch” Britain after they were turfed out by the EU countries where they previously lived....

The Last Journey — this lovely Swedish documentary will make you weep
This profoundly lovely Swedish documentary is a crowd-pleasing road movie that hides a feral heart. Slickly shot, it’s an often bleakly funny account of a last-ditch drive from central Sweden to southern France by the TV host Filip Hammar and his...