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Places Game of Thrones fans should visit
GAME of Thrones fans are leading the charge in travel trends. So with season six well underway, it’s time for a sneak peek at where you’ll want to go next.
World’s creepiest abandoned cities
SOME have been destroyed by man, others by nature. And while once thriving, the world’s ghost cities continue to captivate us.
Weird way Italy’s single ladies find love
FORGET Tinder, Italy’s single ladies are still finding men the ancient way. By having their names pulled out of a hat.
‘The tallest, baddest waterslide ever’
IT REACHES 51 terrifying metres in the air — about the same as high-rise — and it’s attracting thrillseekers the world over. But could you brave the world’s tallest waterslide?
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The quickest way to see New Zealand
IF you’d love a trip to New Zealand but barely have a minute to spare, here’s the speedy way to marvel at its spectacular scenery.
The islands you need to visit in 2016
THEY’RE the picture perfect islands home to the friendliest people in the world, and they’re right on our doorstep.
The tiny island swapped for NYC
YOU’VE probably never heard of it, but a tiny island off the coast of Darwin is so valuable it was once traded for New York.
Cheapest way to have an island holiday
ASH London knows a thing or two about having an awesome time on a tiny budget. She’s just spent five weeks on a remote tropical island.
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Pack Up: Shanghai
WA expat Matthew Contuzzi first moved to China to study Mandarin. Five years on he’s working for The Nielsen Company and loving the buzz of the big smoke.
Japan designs world’s first ‘invisible’ train
ALREADY famous for its bullet trains, Japan is set to launch an ‘invisible’ train to its tracks that will be virtually impossible to see.
The train so fast you can’t see it
AS Australia debates the future of high-speed rail, Japan is leaving us in the dust by working on a fast train they say will be “invisible”.
Inside China’s eerie ghost city
IT WAS hailed as a bustling utopia with state of the art facilities. Yet years after this billion-dollar city was built, it remains eerily vacant.
‘The tallest, baddest waterslide ever’
IT REACHES 51 terrifying metres in the air — about the same as high-rise — and it’s attracting thrillseekers the world over. But could you brave the world’s tallest waterslide?
What you never knew about New York
THOUGHT you’d seen it all in New York City? Look again — chances are, like most tourists, you’ve missed these weird and wonderful gems.
‘It’s between absurd and suicidal’
IF THERE ever was a country that epitomises beauty and despair at the same time, this is it. Home to a ruthless man with a $40bn fortune, it has a shocking history.
Can you spot which icon this is?
THIS is what this famous tourist attraction looked like in 1969 due to a freak event. And there are plans to make it look like this again soon. You’d never recognise it.
Places Game of Thrones fans should visit
GAME of Thrones fans are leading the charge in travel trends. So with season six well underway, it’s time for a sneak peek at where you’ll want to go next.
Weird way Italy’s single ladies find love
FORGET Tinder, Italy’s single ladies are still finding men the ancient way. By having their names pulled out of a hat.
10 things I learnt from quitting
KIRRILY was living her dream of working for Channel Nine when she quit out of the blue last month. It surprised her employer and herself.
Treasure trove ‘found’ in bunker
A GOLD hunter claims to have finally located an infamous treasure trove looted by the Nazis 70 years ago, using a radar probe of bunkers.
‘Tom and Jerry responsible for ISIS’
A SENIOR Egyptian government official has blamed ‘Tom and Jerry’ for the rise of ISIS, claiming the characters teach children to blow up people.
Secrets from inside IS terror cell
UNDERCOVER footage has revealed how a group of disaffected petty criminals transformed into a terror network, determined to carry out jihad on home soil.
Kidnapper’s negotiations at ‘critical stage’
THE Australian man at the centre of the 60 Minutes child abduction saga has lashed out at the Australian Government.
Woman freed after six days under rubble
A WOMAN who was trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building for six days has been freed in a rescue that people are calling a “miracle.”
Ivory stockpile goes up in smoke
MILLIONS of dollars worth of ivory has been torched in Kenya, the largest amount ever destroyed, as the country also deals with a tragic building collapse which has killed 12.
Soldier suspected of killing 11
A DISGRUNTLED soldier is suspected to be behind the killing of eight soldiers and three civilians at a military barracks at Cape Verde, West Africa.
‘It was like we’d found a lost world’
AN Aussie adventurer has recounted his extraordinary and treacherous kayak journey around a remote, icy island — a voyage that won him an award.
Passenger jet lands in Antarctica
FOR the first time ever a commercial Boeing 757 has spectacularly landed on a blue-ice runway in Antarctica potentially changing future travel to the region.
What on Earth is this?
THIS place is the last tourism frontier but those wanting to visit must fork out tens of thousands of dollars — and there’s a pretty big downside ...