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Soccer legend Pele will be buried high up with a view to his beloved home ground at Vila Belmiro. It’s a cemetery like no other. I know it well.

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Of all the fanciful Brexit border ideas, Boris Johnson has proposed a bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland.

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Paradise for these Siberian white cranes is on Lake Poyang, the largest freshwater lake in all of China, in the eastern province of Jiangxi.

A palazzo pitstop in Parma provided plenty of provisions with prosciutto and parmesan too pleasant to pass-up.

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A peaceful weekend away, mixing work with a bit of sight-seeing, turned into the weekend from hell.

Finding Bangkok’s little slice of North Korea used to require cold war-style espionage skills. Not any more.

It wasn't a coincidence that the same year Charles Dickens invented Christmas, civil servant Henry Cole invented the first Christmas card.

Some tourists complain they need a PhD to work out the Italian waste disposal and recycling rules. Romans wouldn't whinge.