9 h. ago ‘A maverick’: pope defies doctors’ orders with another surprise public outing

Dressed down pontiff visits St Peter’s Basilica, and is expected to appear at Easter Sunday mass Lorena Araujo Piñeiro, a restorer, was putting the finishing touches on the restoration of the 17th-century tomb of Pope Urban VIII, a dark bronze and gold monument in St Peter’s Basilica when she noticed a man wearing a striped poncho-like top, black trousers and no shoes, being pushed in a wheelchair towards her.“It was around noon and the basilica was practically empty,” said Piñeiro. “I struggled to recognise who it was I thought he was a simple pilgrim. It was as if he’d just got out of bed.” Continue reading...

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9 h. ago ‘Maverick’ pope defies doctors’ orders with another surprise public outing

Dressed-down pontiff visits St Peter’s Basilica, and is expected to appear at Easter Sunday massLorena Araujo Piñeiro was putting the finishing touches to the restoration of the 17th-century tomb of Pope Urban VIII, a dark bronze and gold monument in St Peter’s Basilica, when she noticed a man wearing a striped poncho-like top, black trousers and no shoes, being pushed in a wheelchair towards her.“It was around noon and the basilica was practically empty,” said Piñeiro, a restorer. “I struggled to recognise who it was I thought he was a simple pilgrim. It was as if he’d just got out of bed.” Continue reading...

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9 h. ago ‘He continues to be a maverick’: Francis keeps pushing the limits of papacy

Pope’s surprise public outings after serious illness show he is saying ‘I’m here, and I’m in charge’, a Vatican expert saysLorena Araujo Piñeiro was putting the finishing touches to the restoration of the 17th-century tomb of Pope Urban VIII, a dark bronze and gold monument in St Peter’s Basilica, when she noticed a man wearing a striped poncho-like top, black trousers and no shoes, being pushed in a wheelchair towards her.“It was around noon and the basilica was practically empty,” said Piñeiro, a restorer. “I struggled to recognise who it was I thought he was a simple pilgrim. It was as if he’d just got out of bed.” Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Chaos in beautiful UK village as huge tourist ban is 'just the start'

A once-picturesque village often described as the UK's 'most beautiful' has finally had enough of tourists - who have slowly turned the area into a coach-riddled nightmare

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29 h. ago Revealed: From French brie to German sausages, full list of foods British tourists are banned from taking home from Europe

British tourists will not be allowed to bring meat and cheese back from the European Union to prevent spread of foot-and-mouth disease

Society

35 h. ago British tourists banned from bringing meat and cheese back from Europe

New rules on what travellers can bring into Britain come as hundreds of thousands prepare for Easter getaways

Events

63 h. ago Tourists banned from wearing certain shoes in Italy or face £2,000 fine

A popular region has been forced to impose a ban on certain types of footwear as well as a one-way system on its popular hiking trails for tourists

Economics

3 d. ago Cruise ships are being banned from or facing big restrictions at these popular tourist destinations

A French Riviera city is the latest tourist destination to join the global backlash against cruise ships - here are the other destinations that have had enough of the giant ships

Events

5 d. ago Seven destinations sick of tourists as another city bans cruise ships

A major French holiday hotspot has become the latest location to bring in rules against cruise travel - joining a growing list of cities fighting back against 'overtourism'

Politics

6 d. ago 'I wore barefoot shoes to help painful foot condition and now I hate wearing anything else'

Super comfy and easy to wear, they really are 'like walking on marshmallows'

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6 d. ago Idiotic daytrippers stand inches from death as they peer over crumbling cliffs

Tourists were seen today standing dangerously close to the cliff edge (pictured) in the coastal hamlet of Birling Gap, East Sussex, one of Britain's most popular beauty spots.

Events

6 d. ago Buskers are BANNED from famous London tourist hotspot after judge labels their public singing 'psychological torture'

Buskers will be banned from a popular London tourist space after a judge at City of London Magistrates' Court ruled they were inflicting 'psychological torture' on nearby office workers.

Events

9 d. ago Revealed: What your shoes say about YOU... so are you a ballet pumps person or a high heels lover?

A new study by the German footwear retailer, Deichmann, has revealed that the type of shoes a person is wearing can make or break others first judgements.

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9 d. ago UK tourists visiting Spain warned specific bank note is ‘not accepted’

Spain is one of the UK’s top holiday destinations but holidaymakers are urged to check their travel money as one specific banknote is being slowly ‘phased out’ and could be rejected by shops and bars

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9 d. ago ‘I thought I was going to die – and it was so freeing’: Blink

His gleefully puerile take on punk brought him fame, an art collection and a Beverly Hills mansion – then the band split and he was diagnosed with lymphoma. How did he bounce back?Mark Hoppus is prodding at his phone, attempting to find a photograph of the swimming pool at his mid-century modernist home in Beverly Hills. “The house was built in 1962. It has this really cool circular design – the whole house is a semi-circle, built around the pool, and the pool kind of mimics the semi-circle of the house itself, then it goes out into a normal pool shape,” he says. “So it looks like a dick. I have a dick-shaped swimming pool,” he nods.There is more prodding. For a 53-year-old cancer survivor, he is oddly boyish – and not merely in his enthusiasm for swimming pools that look like genitalia: his skin is unlined; his hair stands up in a vertiginous, spiky quiff; he is wearing a pair of Vans skate shoes. “I’ll look it up on Google Maps so you can see it let’s go to satellite view. It...

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1 week ago Roman gladiator's lost tomb is FOUND in Italy after 2,000 years

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD.

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1 week ago Fury erupts in Tenerife as major tourist hotspot issues urgent ban on cars

In yet another blow to Brits, Tenerife has introduced a strict ban on cars in a popular area frequently touted as Spain's answer to 'Machu Picchu'

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2 w. ago Bali bans 'menstruating tourists' from entering their temples because blood is 'dirty' and will 'contaminate' holy sites

The holiday island has recently launched a crackdown on 'naughty' tourists, with those in breach of the new rules facing fines and even imprisonment.

Events

2 w. ago Celebrity stylist reveals how to wear the season’s biggest shoe trends

A celebrity stylist has shared how to wear this season’s most popular shoes - from woven flats to boat shoes

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2 w. ago Turtle doves to be shot for sport again across Europe as EU lifts hunting ban

Ban in place since 2021 has increased numbers of globally vulnerable pigeon species that is close to extinction in UKTurtle doves will be allowed to be shot for sport again across Europe, as the EU lifts a ban on hunting that was credited with the species’ tentative recovery.The EU will allow hunters to shoot 132,000 birds across Spain, France and Italy after the threatened bird enjoyed a population boom in western Europe because of a hunting ban that came into effect in 2021. Continue reading...

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