WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – For passengers on the budget Australian airline Jetstar, the days of cramming your bag into an overhead locker already full of your seatmates’ full-sized suitcases are coming to an end, but there’s a catch. The carrier will charge passengers for stowing carry-on bags in the overhead compartments, beginning in February 2027.
LHASA, Tibet (AP) – Kalsang Lhamo traces a series of vertical strokes, slow but firm, practicing Tibetan calligraphy. A 73-year-old retired nurse, she has spoken Tibetan all her life but never learned to write it. Now, in classes at a center for older adults, she immerses herself in the script.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – A plane carrying European tourists to view the famed Nazca Lines crashed into a field Saturday outside the Peruvian city of Nazca, killing 13 people, local authorities said.
BAJAKOVO, Croatia (AP) – Travelers at a popular border crossing between Croatia and Serbia on Saturday faced hourslong waits in scorching temperatures as peak summer holiday traffic clogged one of the major crossings between the two Balkan nations.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – As wildfires rage in France and Spain and a renewed heat wave is bearing down on Western Europe, a prolonged drought half a continent away is setting record low water levels on one of Europe’s largest rivers, disrupting tourism and industry and confronting residents with the realities of climate change.
The challenges of operating a cable car on Europe’s most active volcano
Ski enthusiasts flock to sub-Saharan Africa and a snowy mountain resort in Lesotho
LONDON (AP) – A power outage at a water treatment plant in south east England left toilets out of order and forced the closure of restaurants at Gatwick Airport on Sunday.
Fifty hot air balloons launch at Russian Golden Ring festival to set new record
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