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Welcome to Capital Confidential — a weekly diary column featuring the best tidbits from around the U.K.’s business and political landscape from MarketWatch sister publication Financial News. This week: Praise for Farage at an eyebrow-raising Kepler Cheuvreux event; a history of nudity in the Bateman family; and jokes from the ...

Wearing a baseball hat and smoking a shisha pipe in a cafe in Cairo, Dawitt tells me he is 19, but looks years younger. He explains that he escaped Eritrea aged 13 to avoid forced, indefinite conscription into military service. His family helped him pay smugglers to travel via Sudan ...

After a contentious weekend in transatlantic relations, European cars moved once again to the centre of attention. Germany rejected the view floated inside the US government that European car imports were a threat to national security – meaning that security could not be a justification for imposing additional tariffs on ...

Protesters in Malaga, the Canaries, Palma de Majorca, Malaga, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville, as well as Lisbon in Portugal, Venice in Italy and Malta have set up a new pressure group as they face the same problems due to what they describe as tourism saturation. Their group, the Network of Southern ...

Turkish Airlines has launched its ‘FlyFest Promotion to enable Ghanaian travelers to visit their dream destinations at a reduced fare. The launch of the FlyFest promotion is to offer the general travelling public the opportunity of enjoying heavily discounted tickets on Turkish Airlines and connecting flights in Istanbul to over ...

A middle-aged couple from Melbourne have revealed how a ‘life-changing adult gap year’ inspired them to pack up their lives, ditch their jobs and travel the world full time – all for less than $100 per day on average.   Glenn, 58, and Jacqueline Lamb, 52, took a year off from ...

With an abundance of heritage sites and an exclusive terminal for tourist boats, Changanassery is all set to take off as a destination this year. Aimed at bringing a significant increase in tourist arrivals, the Department of Tourism will soon commission a jetty to entice tourist boats to the destination. ...

18 February 2019 Until very recently I have always been a girl that would desperately seek the sun sea and sand when given the opportunity to ‘escape’ but having been introduced the wonderful whim of pure white winters , my heart has more often been swayed by a visit to ...

Holidaymakers are shelving their holiday plans or delaying bookings amid concern that the UK will crash out of the European Union without a deal. Holiday reservations performed well in the approach to Christmas but have taken a nosedive this year. Summer holiday bookings have fallen 6 per cent year on ...

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed has paid tribute to his father at the inauguration of a new gallery of the British Museum. The UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation attended the event to open the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Gallery for Europe and the Middle East in ...