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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Travel Stories

Elin Ersson was hailed a hero after she refused to take her seat on a flight until an Afghan deportee was released.

Awkward truth behind ‘heroic’ protest

UNCOMFORTABLE new details have emerged about the man this “heroic” student tried to defend in dramatic scenes on a passenger plane.

Travel Stories

Definitive Guide to the Bermuda Triangle. Documentary airing on SBS

Bermuda Triangle ‘solved’

SCIENTISTS say they’ve finally figured out the dark secret of the infamous region that’s claimed hundreds of lives for a century.

Luxury

A rabbit runs by as the Hybrid Air Vehicles HAV 304 Airlander 10 hybrid airship taxis ahead of its maiden flight at Cardington Airfield near Bedford, north of London, on August 17, 2016. The Hybrid Air Vehicles 92-metre long, 43.5-metre wide Airlander 10 lifted off for the first time from an airfield north of London. The Airlander has a large helium-filled fabric hull and is propelled by four turbocharged diesel engines. According to the company it can stay airborne for up to five days at a time if manned, and for over 2 weeks unmanned with a cruising speed of just under 150 km per hour and a payload capacity of up to 10,000 kg. / AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS

Intriguing sight inside lavish new plane

YES, this is a plane. New photos from aboard the world’s weirdest aircraft, dubbed the “flying bum”, reveal a sight most of us will never get to see.

Flights

Passengers on Jet2 are sick of the airline playing Jess Glynne's hit song. Picture: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for MTV

Airline song that’s driving people bonkers

THIS pop song was a huge hit a few years ago, but right now it’s making people very angry.

Travel Money

Kayak.com.au has analysed the cost per mile of flight routes from Sydney and Melbourne to the rest of the world.

Routes that are ripping us off

THERE are two cities that offer Aussies the best bang for buck with airfares, and one city that’s burning a big hole in our wallets.

Travel Updates

Sabrina Jales St Pierre bed bugs story. Picture: Instagram

Model ‘humiliated’ after hotel stay

A VICTORIA’S Secret model is taking a hotel to court after she was “massacred” by bedbugs.

Best of Travel

Boeing' hypersonic concept plane. Picture: Boeing

Australia to Europe in under five hours

BOEING says the amazing feat is possible — and this is the passenger jet that’s going to make it happen.

Travel Incidents

Simple error that doomed flight 703

THE plane was in the sky for just six minutes before crashing and killing everyone on board. Now we finally know what happened.

Travel Incidents

Armed police stormed a plane at New York's JFK airport thinking it had been hijacked - but it hadn't.

Typo causes airline hijacking false alarm

FLIGHT 1623 was sitting on the tarmac at New York’s JFK airport when the pilot sent a message to air traffic control. The response was overwhelming.

Travel Updates

Authorities in Malaysia were angry after a video emerged showing tourists dancing inappropriately outside a popular mosque. Picture: Sabah Info

Outfits that have infuriated a nation

ALL tourists are now banned from a popular attraction in Asia, thanks this provocative display by two women caught on camera.

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