The Israeli Embassy in Cairo says a delegation of elderly Egyptian-born Jews was forced to cancel a visit to Egypt because they were unable to find accommodation following a local media storm over their trip.
Israeli press attache Shani Cooper-Zubida says that the group had just come to visit Jewish sites in Egypt and hear a [...]
His picture hangs in the Sherpa museum, above the terraced village of Namche Bazaar, and almost everyone in the Solu-Khumbu valley knows who he is. He is stopped often, sometimes by people just wanting to shake his hand. A Western climber we meet on the trail stops to hug him. She tells us confidently, You [...]
VICTORIAN taxpayers were hit with a $308,000 bill for Premier John Brumby and several senior ministers to travel through Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America in the final three months of last year.State Government figures showed Transport Minister Lynne Kosky, Industry and Trade Minister Theo Theophanous and Education Minister Bronwyn Pike racked up [...]
VICTORIAN taxpayers were hit with a $308,000 bill for Premier John Brumby and several senior ministers to travel through Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America in the final three months of last year.State Government figures showed Transport Minister Lynne Kosky, Industry and Trade Minister Theo Theophanous and Education Minister Bronwyn Pike racked up [...]
VICTORIAN taxpayers were hit with a $308,000 bill for Premier John Brumby and several senior ministers to travel through Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America in the final three months of last year.State Government figures showed Transport Minister Lynne Kosky, Industry and Trade Minister Theo Theophanous and Education Minister Bronwyn Pike racked up [...]
Backpackers plucked from a yacht which ran aground on the north Queensland coast have been offered free food, accommodation and trips after accusing the yacht operator of abandoning them.
Thirty-two frightened tourists and five crew from the yacht Romance were rescued by helicopter after the vessel ran aground on rocks on Hook Island in the Whitsundays [...]
Backpackers plucked from a yacht which ran aground on the north Queensland coast have been offered free food, accommodation and trips after accusing the yacht operator of abandoning them.
Thirty-two frightened tourists and five crew from the yacht Romance were rescued by helicopter after the vessel ran aground on rocks on Hook Island in the Whitsundays [...]
Backpackers plucked from a yacht which ran aground on the north Queensland coast have been offered free food, accommodation and trips after accusing the yacht operator of abandoning them.
Thirty-two frightened tourists and five crew from the yacht Romance were rescued by helicopter after the vessel ran aground on rocks on Hook Island in the Whitsundays [...]
Debra Solomon straps on her life jacket and heads down
some wild rapids in Fiji.
It’s no use telling this complete novice that a whitewater
rafting trip is only a grade 2/3. The numbers mean nothing, and I’d
seen the movie The River Wild so knew the dangers ahead. Possible
kidnapping, being forced at knifepoint over a mighty waterfall and
dashing [...]
Graham Simmons visits a small country town with some big
attractions.
THE sign at the town entrance tells it all: “Welcome to
Cunnamulla, settled in the Dreamtime.” Aussie towns don’t get much
older than that. Nor do they get much more welcoming and community
spirited.
Cunnamulla, a heritage town in western Queensland about 11 hours
by road west of Brisbane, is a [...]
