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When visiting Provence and the Cote d’Azur, find out whether you should lay your hat in Nice, Toulon or Marseille Discover a new side to the south of France with an off-season trip. With EasyJet flights from various UK airports, it’s never been easier to catch some autumn/winter sun. Find …

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made an unannounced visit to meet with soldiers in the main square of Izium, Ukraine.

The project was commissioned by the deputy governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu. Nigerian comedian Bovi Ugboma has renovated some of the class and staff rooms of the University Staff School in Benin city.

Food Dutch food was once all meat, veg and potatoes, but in the 1950s migrants from all over the world started arriving and created the food culture we now have. A popular tourist market is Markthal with about 100 vendors, including Natamania, which sells delicious Portuguese pastéis de nata. But …

The Russian government has urged its citizens and administrative personnel to leave the Ukranian city of Kharkhiv as reports of Ukranian advances in the city continue to swirl. According to Reuters, Ukrainian forces entered the strategic city of Izium after five months of Russian occupation, Kyiv officials said Saturday September …

Rockets launched from the Belgorod region in Russia are seen at dawn in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on August 15. Valentyna Kondratieva, 75, left, is comforted by a neighbor as they stand outside her damaged home, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on August 13, after a rocket attack. Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters attend …

It’s the most exclusive lost property office in the world. Deep underground, in a thrumming, humidified laboratory, a world-historical statue is being reunited with its ancient marble foot. Of all the rooms at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, this is the most pulse-quickening, which is saying something considering that the …

“Sometimes I prefer one city, sometimes another,” wrote the late great travel writer Jan Morris in the Guardian in 2009. But, she added: “There are places in the world where my responses have not been fickle, and the chief of these is Trieste,” which she described as “a place to …

BEST FOR ART AND CULTURE Plovdiv, Bulgaria Bulgaria’s second city has a good claim to being Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited centre. Its glory days were under the Romans – who left a marbled hillside amphitheatre and 200,000 square metres of elaborate mosaics inside the Bishop’s Basilica (reopened last year after …

Athens has been ranked the cheapest location for a city break on the continent, ahead of traditional budget-friendly eastern European destinations. Analysis of a dozen typical tourist costs for UK visitors in 20 popular cities by Post Office Travel Money found prices in the Greek capital have fallen by 15% …