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SINGAPORE The number of visitors to Singapore fell 4.1 percent in June, the first monthly decline after more than four years of gains, the city-state’s tourism board said.

ATHENS The work will mainly be focused on repairing damage caused by the Greek uprising against Ottoman rule in 1821, when the

KHARTOUM President Omar al-Beshir may be the first sitting head of state in history to face a possible international arrest warrant for alleged genocide and war crimes, but two Canadians and an Englishman are spellbound by the country.

PARIS The hostel, beside the bassin de la Villette in the city’s northeast, has 275 beds priced from 17 to 30 euros (27-47 dollars) per person. At the opening ceremony Thursday, Paris Mayor

Brendan Fraser moved around a lot as kid, living in several cities across the U.S., Canada and Europe. The actor has since become so transfixed by travel that he’s had to add extra pages to his passport. But of all the places Fraser’s been, he’d really like to

KFAR ZABAD, Lebanon Today, after a war, a political crisis and flareups of sectarian violence, Lebanon’s brave experiment in eco-tourism is battered and bloodied but defiantly soldiers on.  In the eastern Bekaa region near the Syrian border, financial help from

VERSAILLES France Replicas of the 80-metre steel gate decorated with 100,000 gold leaves were unveiled on Monday after two years of painstaking work to recreate the Baroque-style piece by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.

PARIS France is the most popular European holiday destination for Chinese tourists and some 700,000 flocked to the country last year, with Paris, the Cote d’Azur and the Loire chateau region the most popular destinations.

TOKYO The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will announce the appointment on Monday, Kyodo said at the weekend, quoting ministry officials.  It will mark the first time a cartoon character has become a goodwill ambassador for Japan

CHA-AM, Thailand Duangrit Bunnag scans the murky white high-rises that sketch Bangkok’s haphazard skyline, despairing of the drab view from his architecture firm’s clean and minimalist office. “The question I am always asked is which building do