Would you visit Egypt for the first time without seeing the Pyramids, or Paris without visiting the Eiffel Tower? Of course not — and nor would I be visiting Peru without seeing its headline act, Machu Picchu...

A fellow ocean explorer recalls a warning he gave to the British adventure

Speeding through the Aegean Sea, flanked by the splendid rolling mountains of the Bodrum Peninsula, the glassy blue surface transforms into torrents of white foam.

Vegas, baby, Vegas!’ That’s Vince Vaughn’s legendary line in Swingers while en route to the city where he’ll double down on blackjack and chasing women

Last summer, the grand opening of the newest outlet in London's Westfield shopping centre was quite an event. Hundreds of people applauded the cutting of an orange...

New Year's Eve at St Thomas' Hospital in London is always gruelling. Booze-fuelled accidents, injuries and domestic incidents test staff physically, mentally and emotionally. For those on duty as 2020...

Shoppers have been secretly filmed by big stores to try to make them spend more. Tesco, Boots, Sainsbury's and Co-op all commissioned SBXL, a little-known behavioural analysis agency, to record customers...

Tucked away in a corner of rural South Wales is a stone cottage with a well-tended vegetable garden, children's toys on the patio and a pile of logs for a wood-burning stove. It is home to a 29-year-old woman...

The disturbing scale of the personal data harvested and traded by multinationals can be revealed today. Health details, children's voice recordings and copies of passports can be at risk when customers tick...

On the first day of my new job as a hotel waitress — before I have a chance to polish a glass or proffer a canapé — I’m primed in detail about how to enter the building. Not via the front foyer, but circuitously through...

An investigation found that shop-bought food is widely tainted with potentially dangerous particles that float in the air. It had been thought the risk to health was largely limited to eating fish from oceans polluted with plastic...

On Monday there was a bomb attack. A coordinated series of bombs set off in a probable terrorist attack suddenly and unexpectedly killed people and wounded dozens. People lost limbs, blood stained the streets and...