Singapore Airlines on Monday became the first carrier to unveil the interior of one of the big jets and made it clear that it was keen to recoup its investment in its new private cabin by charging 20 to 25 per cent more than its existing first class.

Business class p... Read More

A city that spends most of the year dealing with growing domestic issues comes together to show the world amazing colour, beautifully rehearsed dancing and to play hypnotising music.

"Wow, watch him go. What a beauty!" he says of a giant manta ray sashaying through the water close behind a school of sparkly pink fish. "He'd be the width of a car, I reckon."

According to TQ, the selection process was so hard that its team was unable by yesterday, after weeks of deliberation, to isolate only 10 short-listed applicants from a field of 47 still in the running for the $150,000 “islands caretaker” job.

My experience is rated one of the top 10 wilderness adventures in the world.

The only way in is by helicopter; the only way out by conquering the curves of this rampaging river.

Just before our trip, north Queensland had a record day of rain, 600mm in 24 hours. Water is barrelli... Read More

THE family of a Melbourne woman missing in Croatia may sell their home in order to put up a six-figure reward for information on her whereabouts.

Britt Lapthorne, 21, was last seen in a nightclub in the Croatian coastal resort of Dubrovnik on September 17.

The RMIT student's broth... Read More

With gritted teeth, we set the car northwards and, after 2½ hours up the F3 freeway, we found ourselves at Peppers Anchorage Resort.

Reacting angrily to news that Australian airlines are forcing passengers to pay extra luggage fees, readers said overweight travellers should be footing the bill, with one reader suggesting they be seated in "super-size" class.

The revelation was made yesterday as local tourism authorities urged employers and employees to work together in organising appropriate holidays, preferably within Australia, reports The Daily Telegraph.

An army of self-styled "guerrilla gardeners" is growing across the world, fighting to transform urban wastelands into horticultural havens.

To document and encourage their victories, one of the movement's top generals has written a handbook.

On Guerrilla Gardening, by ... Read More

This was not any living room. It was one of the 30 rooms comprising the most decadent Gothic-inspired house in Los Angeles – the Playboy Mansion.

It is an interesting approach as the pilot lines up the grass airstrip that runs from one side of the island to the other.

Flocks of birds flutter for cover as we touch down on Lady Elliot Island, a nature lover's delight.

Snorkelers and divers travel here from around the world ... Read More

1. Acropolis - Athens, Greece

Maia Crawford Rongonui, 18, of Masterton, went on trial in Christchurch District Court Monday over allegations that he assaulted the woman with intent to sexually violate her, and sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection.

The tourism idea of Devonport woman Carolynn Jamieson follows a recent commitment by Premier David Bartlett to establish Tasmania as a destination for culinary excellence.

Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said restaurants and other points of economic activity could reopen as soon as Wednesday, in an effort to revive a devastated tourism sector.

The son of former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing said that Club Med's only Australian resort, on Lindeman Island, may even consider dipping its toe into residential property developments, The Australian reports.

We have seen dozens of them on the ice. Their comical gait makes us laugh, and some of us manage to sit still enough for them to come right up to us (this is environmentally acceptable - humans should not approach them) and pose for a one-of-a-kind happy snap to take home.

Flying into the tiny airstrip, it is hard not to get excited as you look out the window and see that you are surrounded by turquoise blue water and lush green islands.

Enter the Australian farm stay.

We're staring down the barrel of four days and three nights of activities and communal dining with 17 families we don't know. Our eight-year-old thinks it sounds daggy. Secretly we agree.

Mowbray Park, 1 1/2 hours' drive south of Sydney, is the cl... Read More

What greater drive than a tickle down the spine of the country – criss-crossing the Great Dividing Range all the way from Brisbane to the southeast corner of the country.

The Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association will introduce ongoing overtime bans from midnight on Thursday and stage a four-hour stoppage on Friday, with a second the following Friday, in support of a 5 per cent wage claim. Mr Dixon said the action, which came after the union had... Read More

Etihad, the national carrier of the UAE, will add an extra four flights a week directly between the capital Abu Dhabi and Sydney from October 31, taking its weekly total to eleven.

Etihad also flies between Brisbane and Abu Dhabi via Singapore.

The new services would bring an ex... Read More

Standing frozen in fresh knee-deep powder in temperatures of minus six degrees, the wind whips off the reflective white surface like a smoke machine. The snow crunches as I shift my weight from one ski to another, but the burning in my thighs immediately forces me into submission.

Cooing over the latest looks from Loewe, Celine, Burberry and Coach, the 1000 guests could be VIP customers at any upscale department store, but they are Qantas platinum frequent flyers at a function at duty-free outlet DFS Galleria at The Rocks in Sydney.

QANTAS will expand its frequent flyer services to include one of the nation's largest supermarket chains.

The T-shirt message couldn't be clearer and according to market-stall owner Rod, the women are snapping them up.

I don't know if I could be that discriminatory, but if I was - well, I'd be in eligibility heaven.

Melbourne mate Lil and I have road-tripped south, from Los Angeles t... Read More

ASH from the erupting Chaiten volcano in southern Chile has spread across a growing swathe of South America, forcing flight cancellations across much of Argentina and threatening to blanket more towns in Argentina and Chile.