The Editorial Team

Lauren McMahMorning homepage editor

Lauren has been a journalist for more than a decade, since graduating with a degree in communications from the University of Technology, Sydney. After completing her cadetship with NewsCorp, she worked at several of Sydney’s NewsLocal newspapers and as a senior reporter at mX, covering everything from national news and politics to travel, lifestyle and entertainment. She joined news.com.au as a news reporter in 2016, and is now the site’s Afternoon Homepage Editor.

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Health & Safety

ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY - FEE APPLIES FOR REUSE - A British tourist issued a warning to holidaymakers - after she spotted a street trader spray painting white grapes red. See SWNS story SWGRAPES: Layla Khan, 23, and her cousin investigated food at the street market because her aunty suffered sickness and diarrhea after eating the grapes. She was shocked to see a vendor crouched behind a stall using a can of Win spray paint to dye the fruit - and they began secretly filming him. The middle-aged man spins his head round, notices the camera and smirks - before placing the grapes on the ground in a pile with other painted fruit. The man, who has red paint on his hands, doesn’t react when questioned in the video. Layla, a carer from Birmingham, was visiting family in Afzalpur, a village in Mirpur, Pakistan in August. Picture: SWNS/Mega

Tourists warned about shady market scam

WE’RE always told to be careful eating street food, but what this market vendor was caught on camera doing to fruit is something else.

Europe

ESCAPE: PASSPORTS - International friendship and passports. Picture: iStock

Passport the mega-rich are desperate for

A PASSPORT from this country is “the latest status symbol”. And the world’s wealthiest people are lining up for one.

Travel Incidents

An ambulance waits for a British man at an airport in Toulouse, France, after he suffered a medical emergency on a flight to Ibiza.

Tragic twist to mid-flight death

A MAN who died after allegedly overdosing on drugs on a flight was grieving his father’s death days earlier, shocked witnesses say.

Travel Incidents

AIDAstella ship exterior Supplied by AIDA Cruises

Fears for star who vanished from cruise

A MASSIVE search is under way for a German TV star and singer who suddenly vanished while aboard a cruise ship.

Travel Updates

ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY - FEE APPLIES FOR REUSE - PICS BY BOB THISSEN / CATERS NEWS - (PICTURED: Taken at numerous hotels within the Island Djerba area - they have everything from perfectly preserved guest areas covered in dust, to green pond water filled pools, and a range of run down and preserved features) - Look inside Tunisias lost lavish hotels that were abandoned after terrorist attacks.Ranging from perfectly preserved to in-ruins, the resorts in Island Djerba are a clash between post-apocalyptic and forgotten elegance.Still laid out in all its grandeur the vast ashen white lobbies and dining halls remain laden with chairs, tables and couches for guests. Stunning chandeliers hang from the ceilings and facilities, from a fully-equipped bar to massage tables and spa rooms that remain intact apart from a heavy coating of dust. - SEE CATERS COPY

Haunting: inside lost tourist paradise

THEY are lavish resorts located in a bustling beachside town, but this is the disturbing reality of what remains years after terror struck here.

Travel Stories

Plymouth Rock sits on the beach in Plymouth Ma, inside it's caged enclosure.

World’s most iconic sites slammed

A TRAVEL site has unleashed on the world’s most visited locations and instead of encouraging us to visit, it says we should stay away.

Travel Stories

Luggages moving on airport conveyor belt. Picture: iStockDoc Holiday, Escape

Truth behind this pre-flight strategy

WHEN a young man shared a pic of his parents’ pre-flight strategy, it seemed everyone in the world had something to say about it.

Travel Stories

Woman's airbnb shocker. Picture: Elliott Advocacy

Woman’s shock discovery at Airbnb rental

WHEN Mary turned up at the Vegas house she rented, she found it to be “filthy” — but what was taped to the garage door was even worse.

Travel Updates

Two American Airlines flights have arrived in Philadelphia with sick people on board.

More flights struck by mystery illness

DAYS after an Emirates plane landed with 100 people ill, two more flights have just landed in the US with sick passengers on board.

Travel Stories

Chilling Facebook post from scooter victim

TWO tourists were badly injured, stranded and in serious trouble in Bali. This is the Facebook update that saved their lives.

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