30 h. ago ‘Disrespectful’ booing of welcome to country at Melbourne Anzac Day dawn service condemned

Small group booed and yelled at Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown’s welcome and Victorian governor’s acknowledgement of countryElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastVictorian police have interviewed a man for offensive behaviour after attenders at Melbourne’s main Anzac Day dawn service booed and heckled during a welcome to country.A small group of people booed and yelled throughout the welcome delivered by Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown at the 5:30 am service at the city’s Shrine of Remembrance.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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4 d. ago I visited every country in the world without flying. Here are eight things I learned

Spending nearly a decade on the move gave me a deeper understanding of the importance of conversation, people’s boundless generosity – and my limitationsI have often felt as if I was born 100 years too late. There was a time when satellites weren’t whizzing above us and everything had yet to be discovered or filmed. Growing up, it seemed as if all the great adventures had happened before I was born. But in 2013 I discovered that – although it had been attempted – no one had made an unbroken journey through every country without flying. I had a shot at becoming the first to do it.I was fascinated that such an adventure was still out there, untouched. However, I was in my 30s, I had just met a wonderful woman, my peers were having their first children (and in some cases their second) and I had a 12-year career in shipping and logistics. But I couldn’t let the idea go. So, at 34, I set off – and didn’t return home until almost a decade later. These are the lessons I learned along the w...

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4 d. ago European country named as most popular holiday spot for British families in 2025

It seems growing anti-tourist rhetoric and an eruption of protests hasn't been enough to deter swathes of British families, who still plan on visiting an insatiably popular EU hotspot this year

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9 d. ago Cheapest European city for Airbnbs revealed as popular stag do hotspot

The team at OLBG has looked at the average price per night for an Airbnb in 50 European cities to find out where has the cheapest - and most expensive - accommodation per night.

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1 week ago Ryanair's brutal warning to Spain as more flights could be cut in drastic move

Ryanair has slammed Spain over its aviation fees, which it argues are 'excessive' and 'limits growth'. It comes after the airline has already slashed its summer 2025 traffic to the country

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1 week ago Paradise with £2.30 pints where you can buy return flights from UK for £30

As UK rail fares rise by 4.6% more and more Brits are searching for cheap flights abroad with one particular sunny destination getting great reviews - and you can fly from the UK for just £30

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2 w. ago The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards are coming up. Here's who's nominated and how to watch

The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards are just around the corner

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2 w. ago Fleeing Taliban fighters, Ibrahim begs the country he helped – Australia – to save his family

Mohammed Ibrahim Danish spent four years as a translator for aid workers who taught children and trained doctors. In today’s Afghanistan the penalty for that is death Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastHuddled on Afghanistan’s chaotic border with Pakistan, his young son shivering in the cold, Ibrahim Danish stared at the unmoving metal gates – willing them to open, even just for a moment.“We spent the night there in the middle of the street with little Daniel and it was [the most] difficult night of my life,” he says. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Cheapest city break destinations for 2025 revealed as VERY surprising European city takes the top spot

Spring is in the air, the weather's warming up and city break season is officially calling. But where are this year's cheapest destinations?

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2 w. ago Cheapest city break destinations for 2025 revealed as VERY surprising European city takes the top spot

Spring is in the air, the weather's warming up and city break season is officially calling. But where are this year's cheapest destinations?

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2 w. ago ‘We’re not a third world country, we’re England’: anger rises as Birmingham’s bin strike takes toll on locals

With the city’s refuse collectors still on the picket line after four weeks, residents are pointing the finger of blame at the council Suhail Sadiq’s car repair business is thriving and he’s furious about it.The rats are responsible. “The amount of cars we’ve got coming in now with wiring chewed up by rats is unbelievable,” he says. Staff at Heartlands Auto Centre in Birmingham have repaired about 15 cars with chewed battery cables in the past week. The rats are drawn to the warmer cars at night, he says – rats gnaw to keep their teeth a manageable length. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Beautiful European city still 22C in April with £1 pints and £23 flights from UK

Sunny, stylish and super affordable, this city in Albania offers 22°C days in April, £1 pints and flights from the UK for just £23. Is this Europe’s best-kept secret?

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3 w. ago Live and work on a remote Scottish island with less than 20 residents this summer

A rare chance has opened up to spend summer 2025 working in one of the country's most special places

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3 w. ago Australia sees nearly 40% decline in plastic pollution along major city coastlines

Country has pledged to phase out unnecessary plastics by 2025 and recycle or reuse all its plastic waste by 2040

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3 w. ago UK rocked by 57th earthquake of the year as seismic activity ramps up across country

Experts from the British Geological Society has recorded another earthquake in the United Kingdom, which would be the 57th to strike the country since the start of 2025

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3 w. ago UK to sizzle in 22C heatwave as country gears up for first BBQ boom of 2025

With temperatures set to hit 22C this weekend, making the UK hotter than the Algarve, Brits are naturally gearing up for a big BBQ bonanza, with more than a million burgers and sausages set to be bought

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3 w. ago Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Ninja Tune)After losing their frontman, the band’s third studio album shows how resilient and adaptable they are, with luscious melodies, fantastical lyrics and lots of recordersThe last time Black Country, New Road released a studio album, in 2022, it was accompanied by a strange feeling. Their debut the previous year had reached No 4 in the UK charts, and Ants from Up There was an even greater breakthrough, the sound of the UK septet pulling confidently away from the serried ranks of sprechgesang-heavy alt-rock bands who proliferated in the late 2010s. But there was an elegiac feeling around its release: Black Country, New Road’s frontman, Isaac Wood, had announced his departure four days prior. The others had resolved to continue without him, but given how distinctive Wood’s declarative, ruminating vocals were, many thought the band’s future was uncertain at best.That proved to be an underestimation. Instead of touring Ants from Up There, the remaining members stopped playing an...

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3 w. ago Travel trade event brings new global opportunities for Lanarkshire businesses

VisitScotland Connect 2025 is designed to increase the country’s share of global travel in a sustainable way, supporting the economic growth of one of Scotland’s most valuable industries.

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3 w. ago ‘People have walked through here for centuries’: the rhythms of the Welsh valleys in pictures

The beautiful and hardy herds of the Welsh valleys act as a counterpoint to three decades of change in photographer Ken Grant’s imagesKen Grant’s Cwm: A Fair Country, a collection of nearly 30 years of landscape photography in the South Walian valleys, begins with a moving prologue. It mentions a painting he’s known since his Liverpudlian childhood, still sitting above his 92-year-old father’s mantelpiece: “Dapple-bruised Welsh horses, painted in a loose herd, are imagined beneath a sky that promises rain.”From 1998, on commutes from Liverpool to the University of Wales, Newport (where he led a documentary photography degree), he noticed similar horses – completely by coincidence. “I didn’t seek them out at first, but on my drives, I soon got aware that they were there. Sometimes up a valley’s road, you’d see packs of 40 or 50.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The city with '300 days of sun', pints for under a fiver and £14.99 flights from Manchester Airport

It's the latest route from Manchester Airport to one of the world's most in-demand holiday destinations

Economics