A 68-year-old grandfather who fell seriously ill with a mysterious virus during a special cruise has passed away in a Brisbane hospital. The tropical illness struck while Dave Crocos and his wife Jo were on a cruise from Los Angeles to Sydney, visiting Hawaii, French Polynesia, Tahiti, and Auckland. Dave, a recently retired land surveyor from Perth, had seemed healthy

A homeowner has been hailed as a hero after he took revenge on a neighbour who was constantly blocking his driveway. CCTV footage showed the moment the man became fed up with the car which was parked across the entrance and tied a piece of rope to the front of his 4×4 and rear of the offending vehicle and tugged

A dinner menu from the Titanic's first-class passengers has fetched a whopping £80,000 at auction. The menu, which included oysters, beef, spring lamb and mallard duck, was served on April 11, 1912, as the ill-fated ship journeyed from Queenstown in Ireland to New York. Over 1,500 passengers and crew tragically lost their lives when the Titanic hit an iceberg on

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The island of Pantellaria is a “pearl” off the coast of Sicily famed for its dates, olives and “bitter” ravioli pasta. Reached by air or sea from the city of Trapani, Pantellaria’s seaside promenade, street markets and turquoise waters regularly draw travellers across from its larger island neighbour. Pantellaria’s gastronomy is the product of a range of influences resulting from

If you suffer from Acrophobia – a fear of heights – this is not the shop for you. A small hut is attached to a cliff face in China and has captured the imagination of many on socialk media, with one dubbing it an “inconvenient convenience store”. It is 120m (394ft) above the ground in the Shiniuzhai National Geological Park,

President Volodymyr Zelensky is making the right choice by not holding presidential election next year, a Ukrainian national and commentator believes. Aliona Hlivco, managing director at the Henry Jackson Society think tank, finds calls from the West urging the Ukrainian leader to hold elections “really strange”, given her nation is currently at war and trying to defend its borders and

Russian state propagandists have promoted a bizarre story suggesting that women in the UK have taken to cleaning houses wearing only underwear to earn money. The segment was presented on Russian television by pro-Kremlin pundits Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva. Popov declared: “There are new trends in British cleaning. Nowadays professional cleaners not only clean the houses and apartments of

A motorway service dubbed “diabolical” has been slammed as the worst in the country. Located on the M5, one of the key arteries to the southwest, Somerset's Bridgewater services are a key staging post for motorists heading to Devon and Exeter. Operated by Moto the service station has recently been ranked as the worst in the UK by trusted consumer

Pressure drops from the weather are causing millions of us to have splitting headaches. Nine million Britons – one in seven – suffer from ‘storm migraines’. These are weather-triggered headaches, with the main cause being sudden falling air pressure like during stormy weather today (Wednesday, November 8) and during last week’s storms Ciaran and Domingos. A rush of sufferers have