10 Places To See Before It's Too Late

The ice sheets melt fast, the sea levels are rising, and the increase in storms and flooding becomes a serious issue. As scientists expect the sea level to rise around one meter (3.3 ft) by 2100, the global warming warnings sound more and more catastrophic.

Europe's First Rotating Hotel to Emerge in Croatia

The sea views from each hotel room, even from the ones that do not directly face the sea (at the given moment in time)? This will be possible in a rotating hotel that is to emerge on Šolta Island, near Split, Croatia.

Parisians ashamed of being from Paris

Considering their reputation of the world's most aggressive, unpleasant, and unfriendly people, it is hardly a surprise that Parisians try to hide they are from Paris.

Top Ten World's Tourism Earners

Tourism is a huge industry. It is an important pillar of many economies that generates billions of dollars annually. Without revenues from tourism even the world's strongest and most prosperous countries could shake.

Malmö goes nude

Swedish beauties topless? That’s what most guys have always dreamt about. Now the dream comes true as the Malmo’s Sports and Recreation Committee ruled that there is no requirement for women to cover their breasts at town’s pools.

Stoned kangaroos damage poppy farms in Tasmania

Not aliens but kangaroos are making the circles on opium poppy fields in Tasmania. Recently the mysterious circles have appeared from time to time around the fields that are the legal poppy plantations grown for morphine and used by the pharmaceutical industry.

The UNESCO World Heritage List enlarges

The UNESCO World Heritage List is to be enlarged.  On 30 June the UNESCO Committee will reveal the names of new sites that will enter the list. The 33rd session is taking place in Seville, Spain on which the Committee is reviewing the state of conservation of properties already listed as well as examining around 27 nominations for new cultural and natural sites.

10 Most Expensive Hotel Suites in the World

Have you ever wanted to feel like a monarch, an Arab sheik, a Hollywood celebrity or some other filthy rich ass? If you have, this is your lucky day because below is a list of 10 locations where - given enough champagne to dumb the “God I just blew my retirement money away” thought - you will experience what it’s like to be absurdly rich.

13 new sites added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List

The World Heritage Committee holding its 33rd session has inscribed two new natural sites and 11 cultural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.


The natural sites added to the list are the

Wadden Sea

(Germany / The Netherlands) that comprises the Dutch Wadden Sea Conservation Area and the German Wadden Sea National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, as well as the

Dolomites

(Italy) that comprise a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps, numbering 18 peaks which rise to above 3,000 metres and cover 141,903 ha.

10 Suicide Bridges People Are Most Likely to Jump Off

The bridges, designed and built to provide a passage, often become a way between life and death. High constructions spanning across valleys, rivers and large bodies of waters, draw those who lost their hope. Such fatal places where many decided to took their lives acquired a notorious nickname “ the suicide bridge”.

Extreme bridge walk

If you have acrophobia this walk is not for you. A new opened Trift bridge has been constructed 100m (328 feet) above the lake in Swiss Alps, near Trift Glacier. It is 170 m (558 m) long which makes it the longest suspension bridge for pedestrians in the Alps. Only for people with strong nerves.

Traveler Traps By Real Traveler

Yes, it's no mistake - it's

traveler

not

tourist

traps. I believe there is no such thing as a

tourist trap

. After all when you're a tourist you want to go places other tourists go and when you're a traveler you want to go places no-one, or at least few, have set their foot in.

The Worst Tourists in the World

I've suspected it all along, but finally I've been proven right - I am not the only one who thinks the French are indeed arrogant to the point of being rude. French tourists to be exact.

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Best Looking Women in the World

Although beauty exists merely in the mind which contemplates it, as David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, has correctly pointed out, there are some countries in this world that seem to be so much more appealing in terms of looks than others.

Ten Most Dangerous Volcanoes on the Globe

The recent eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, an Icelandic volcano whose name only a few dare to pronounce, made people realize once again how powerful the nature is and how destructive it might be.

14 Travel Links Worth a Look Before You Start Off

In order not to lose your way in the thicket of travel websites, we share with you our favorite travel sites that will help you to find all the practical information, bargains and tips before you start off. There are also several pages we recommend that will help you to ease the pain of being back and stay connected with the travelers from around the globe.

New Seven Wonders of Nature

The New Seven Wonders of Nature Competition is still running, so if you haven't yet chosen your favorite sites, check out our selection of seven places most worthy of honors. Painted by the artistic hand of nature, these sites are truly impressive and some of them definitely deserve to stand on a podium.

The Mecca for Porschephiles. Stuttgart Porsche Museum

You don't have to be a Porschephile to enjoy the recently opened Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. From the outside the monochromatic steel structure of the museum is a masterpiece of 21st century architecture that reshaped the Porscheplatz with its extraordinary appearance.

Iranian plane crash

After two fatal aircraft crashes in June this year another plane with 168 passengers and crew on board crashed today (July 15) in the north of Iran, about 75 miles (120km) north-west of Tehran.

A Caspian Airlines plane was flying from the Iranian capital to Yerevan in Armenia.

How not to die from a lightning

Did you know that in the US lightnings kill more people than hurricanes?

60 to 80 people die per year. Many more are struck by one of the 25 million cloud-to-ground flashes hitting the American soil per year but survive, though thunder survivors often suffer from severe burns and life lasting neurological damage.