Tourist News
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By AFP
Sydney -
Australian police on Tuesday found a body they believed to be that of a British backpacker who ran from a campsite on the weekend, prompting an intensive search."Officers are yet to formally identify the body" police said in a statement.
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By AFP
Phnom Penh -
The body of a 21-year-old British tourist was found floating in the sea more than a week after she went missing from a Cambodian island, police told AFP on Thursday.
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By AFP
The family of a 21-year-old British tourist who went missing on a Cambodian island a week ago boarded boats with authorities Wednesday to continue a meticulous search around the waters and dense jungle territory.
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By AFP
Phnom Penh -
Six Cambodians have been held for questioning in connection with the disappearance of a 21-year-old British woman who went missing on an island popular with backpackers, as police on Tuesday said hopes were fading of finding her alive.
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By AFP
Phnom Penh -
Cambodia deployed soldiers, police and divers to scour an island popular with backpackers after a British tourist went missing there four days ago, an official told AFP on Monday.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Australian police on Wednesday said they have called off a month-long search for an 18-year-old Belgian backpacker who disappeared from a picturesque surf town in May.Theo Hayez was last seen on May 31 in Byron Bay, hundreds of miles north of Sydney.
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By AFP
Sydney -
The father of an 18-year-old Belgian backpacker made a heart-rending appeal for help finding his son Monday, as Australian police admitted they were "baffled" by his disappearance from a picturesque surf town.
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By AFP
Lisbon -
Portugal's Madeira islands, where 29 Germans were killed in a bus crash Wednesday, are a favourite European holiday spot and famously the birthplace of soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo.
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By AFP
Lisboa -
Twenty-nine German tourists were killed when their bus spun off the road and tumbled down a slope before crashing into a house on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
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By AFP
Taipei -
A fire ripped through a bus carrying tourists from China in Taiwan Tuesday, killing all 26 on board in the worst road accident to hit mainland visitors since a holiday boom to the island.
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New York -
A man dressed as Batman was arrested because he attempted to steal money from tourists. The incident happened on Wednesday night in New York City's Times Square.
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San Francisco -
San Francisco police have confirmed that a handgun stolen from a federal agent's parked car in June was the weapon that killed a San Francisco woman a few days later as she walked with her father on the waterfront.
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By AFP
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For the adrenalin-junkie tourists of Pokhara, just an hour's drive from the epicentre of Nepal's earthquake, it's business as usual with boat trips and paragliding in a town spared the destruction wreaked elsewhere.
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Translation apps on the internet and phones have got much better at their jobs in recent years and are now used frequently by tourists. A major question remains though: how reliable are they and do they work? A recent BBC report attempts to answer this.
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Dublin -
Giving credence to the old saying that no good deed goes unpunished, an heroic tourist in Ireland dove into a river to save a dying man only to have his wallet and phone stolen while in the water.
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By AFP
Seoul -
North Korea said Monday it would put two detained American tourists on trial on charges including "perpetrating hostile acts".
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The Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board announced yesterday that the Asian country has welcomed over 7 million tourists during the first quarter of the year.
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By AFP
Pyongyang -
North Korea said Friday it had detained a US tourist for "hostile activities" after he reportedly left a bible at a hotel, bringing to three the number of Americans held by the reclusive regime including missionary Kenneth Bae.
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Quetta -
A Spanish tourist was lucky to escape with minor injuries when cycling through the highly volatile southwestern province of Baluchistan in Pakistan on Wednesday. Six police bodyguards were shot dead while protecting him and five others injured.
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A German tourist, who admits to getting a little drunk, had her phone stolen while on holiday in Ibiza. She even almost met the thief face-to-face, but has now had a chance to get to know him a whole lot better.
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The poor woman and her family came to Spain for the first two-week holiday in five years, but her time in Cala’n Forcat, Menorca was ruined by a bad reaction to a sun "protection" cream. She ended up needing emergency care in hospital for two days.
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Ibiza -
A German tourist got into trouble when using a steel sex toy and he went to the hospital. It took Ibiza firemen two hours to cut through the metal ring, into which the man had placed his ... er ... equipment.
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Maspalomas -
A tourist from the UK, visiting the Playa del Inglés resort on the island of Gran Canaria in Spain, has been on a rampage, pouring boiling water onto passersby from the balcony of his holiday apartment.
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Rio De Janeiro -
A foreign tourist who was visiting Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was raped and robbed on a minibus, according to Brazilian police.
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Agra -
A British tourist visiting Agra, home of the famous Taj Mahal, was sent to hospital after jumping from a first-floor hotel window to escape the possibility of being raped.
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New York -
A woman from Australia, visiting New York City, ended up being raped after she left a Manhattan nightclub, according to police.
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Scotland's Shetland ponies are getting all dressed up as part of a National Tourism Organization advertising campaign aimed at drawing more tourism to the British island.
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A photo shows Chantal Beyer, 24, a safari tourist in South Africa, the moment before a rhino gored her from behind. Beyer poses with her husband while on a safari tour in South Africa.
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A video that shows a crocodile leaping off a rock at a Swedish tourist in Australia has gone viral. The tourist was swimming in water when the crocodile leaped from a rock and landed on top of him in the water.
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Three Swedish tourists had a surprise while swimming in a national park in Australia when a crocodile leapt from rocks landing on one of them.
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Sunrise from a near by hotel high near the 16th St Mall, Denver.
Police bikes parked while officer walk their beat.
Sidewalk cafes along the 16th Street Mall, downtown Denver, CO.
This huge lake is known as Spatik Sagar meaning crystal clear ocean or lake. Once the water of the lake was so clear that the sand-bed of the lake was visible from the bank. However, off late with urbanization and environmental pollution, it's water is no more like a crystal. This lake is located at Amarpur in Tripura, India. Boat riding in the lake during dawn and dusk is popular amongst tourists.
Federal Reserve Bank crest hanging on the downtown Denver, CO branch.
Art travel cow, downtown Denver, CO.
Outdoor cafes are the norm along the 16th Street Mall, downtown Denver, CO.
World Trade Center sign, downtown Denver, CO.
Bicycling is a popular way to get around the downtown core to the 16th Street Mall, Denver, CO.
16th Street Mall street sign.
Outdoor cafes are the norm along the 16th Street Mall, downtown Denver, CO.
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Artistic chess stations, downtown denver on the 16th Street Mall.
DIFFERENT VIEW: This line of Victorian homes near Alamo Square Park in San Francisco is known to locals and an endless line of tourists as The Painted Ladies. jjron / Wikimedia Commons
Scenes from downtown Denver along the 16th Street Mall.
Informative cow, downtown Denver, CO.
What is unique about Denver, CO cow at the 16th Street Mall.
Scenes from downtown Denver along the 16th Street Mall.
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