The crew and passengers of a ferry which was hijacked near Istanbul last week are all reported to be safe after Turkish Security Forces stormed the ship. The lone hijacker was killed by the commandos. According to official reports the incident lasted for around 12 hours and involved 24 people being taken hostage. The hijacker [...]

Tourism officials in Australia have called the local industry’s current situation a ‘crisis’. The news comes not only amid industrial turmoil of the country’s national airline but also as the number of international arrivals in September dropped 9 per cent from the previous year to just 432,200. At the same time, the number of Australian [...]

Heike Dorsch, the 37-year-old partner of a German national who was apparently murdered, and possibly eaten, on the French Polynesian island of Nuku Hiva, has spoken out about her ordeal. In an interview with Bunte magazine, Miss Dorsch described how she, and 41-year-old Stefan Ramin, had visited the island on their catamaran as part of [...]

Italy has become the first European country to resume commercial flights to Libya following the toppling of the Kaddafi Government. Wednesday saw Alitalia carry a flight with 100 passengers –many of whom were religious leaders and diplomats – from Rome airport to Libya’s capital city. Goffredo Buccino, the new Italian ambassador to its former colony [...]

A plane made an emergency landing in Warsaw without landing gear on Tuesday. The Boeing 767 had 230 passengers onboard that were headed to the Polish capital from Newark airport in New Jersey, USA. After the plane’s landing gear failed on approach, the Lot Airline then circled Warsaw airport to burn off fuel before making [...]

Tens of thousands of residents are fleeing Thailand’s capital in the hope of escaping possibly severe flooding. Authorities have said the Chao Phraya would reach peak levels over the weekend and would flood into some heavily populated parts of Bangkok’s central districts, prompting a mass exodus from the city. Thailand is experiencing its worst flooding [...]

Thailand’s tourism industry is fearing economic backlash in the wake of the country’s worst floods in 50 years. This comes as Bangkok’s secondary airport, Don Muang, was closed on Wednesday when flood waters began to inundate its tarmac and runways. Officials ordered evacuations in the surrounding neighbourhood and numerous others, as water levels in some [...]

The UK Foreign Office has drawn fire from Indian authorities over its recently issued advisories against travel to India during the upcoming festival season. The United Kingdom is among four other nations – the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada- that issued similar bulletins this week citing a heightened level of terrorist attacks during [...]

A hunt for a great white shark in Western Australia is underway after an American diver was killed at the weekend. Thirty-two year-old George Thomas Wainwright of Texas was diving close to Rottnest Island not far from Perth when he was fatally attacked by a 3-metre (10-foot) animal. Now officials from local fisheries have sent [...]

Authorities have yet to rule out cannibalism in the case of a missing German tourist in French Polynesia. Forty year-old Stefan Ramin of Hamburg has been missing since stopping off at the island of Nuku Hiva last month during a tour of the Pacific on his sailboat. Searches have gone on for weeks and the [...]