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What's the attraction?... Deserts are some of the best landscapes on Earth for adventure. Whether you're trekking on foot, hitching a ride on a camel or driving through on a 4x4, the rugged beauty of the desert rarely fails to impress.Continue reading...

Another festive season has passed and Father Christmas has once more packed up his red crushed velvet and headed off to – well, wherever he goes when he's not delivering presents to deserving children. Nevertheless, the lure of Lapland has never been stronger, not least with the potential for...

Paul Lambert turned on his side's defending after Aston Villa were humbled 3-1 by Bradford City in the first leg of their Capital One Cup semi-final.Continue reading...

President Hugo Chavez will not attend his scheduled swearing-in this week, Venezuela's government announced today, confirming suspicions that the leader's illness will keep him in a Cuban hospital past the key date.Continue reading...

Eight people have been charged in connection with a series of fraudulent business loans made through a high-street bank to the value of about £35m.Continue reading...

The politician and religious leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed, who died in Islamabad on 6 January at the age of 74 following a heart attack, was an advocate of Islamic democracy who transformed the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami party into a populist outfit. He was a strong critic of the US's...

Bob Clark was a man who believed his life to be guided by serendipity. Luck may have been a factor, but the war hero who went on to forge a glittering career in the City came from a generation of men who refused to talk up their own hard-won achievements and the personal qualities that got them...

Now... Sheepskin has added a new Welsh cottage to its books. Plas Cwta has two bedrooms, a wood-burning stove, board games, books and scenic views of Snowdonia national park – perfect for a cosy winter break. It costs £465 for a three-night stay, excluding peak periods....

Less than £200... Book by 31 January and Flight Centre is offering two nights in picturesque Prague for £199 per person. The package includes British Airways flights from Heathrow for travel between 1 and 22 March and B&B accommodation at the Hotel City Inn. Flightcentre.co.ukContinue...

Q. On a whim I booked two cheap flights to Moscow in June for me and my 11-year-old daughter. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but since booking I have looked into obtaining visas and it seems like a minefield of red tape. Can you help? Matt Denby, West YorkshireContinue reading...

A worrying "disconnect" between official inspection results and the real standards experienced by patients has undermined public confidence in hospitals and care homes, according to a scathing report by MPs.Continue reading...

1. Adventure Trail £259.99, johnlewis.com This well thought-out bike will give you that extra grip on rugged terrain, while the 21 gears will help you climb hills. The frame comes with a lifetime guarantee.Continue reading...

I tied myself in liberal knots of anxiety the last time I reviewed The Undateables, in which Channel 4 paired up the dating show with the disability documentary in the hope that they'd get on famously. I take it everything went well after that first date because here we are nine months on for...

The title story of Tea at the Midland is very short but gives us all we need to know about an adulterous couple in the process of breaking up. They sit beside a plate-glass window in the restaurant of the Midland Hotel. Isolated from the ferociously windy day outside, the sky "torn and holed by...

A headless corpse of an enemy soldier slumped forward in a captured trench; a shallow frontline grave of piled-up stones with two unevenly shaped planks of wood as a makeshift cross; a serious-looking bespectacled young soldier pounding away on a typewriter in the middle of an orange grove:...

After weeks of marches in India sparked by the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman, hundreds of protesters in Nepal rose up and demonstrated, showing their solidarity with a 21-year-old woman allegedly robbed and raped by a policeman in Kathmandu.Continue reading...

As Grace Slick once remarked, ‘If you remember the sixties, you weren’t there!”Continue reading...

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Wherever he goes, Ricky Tomlinson is chased by his catchphrase. The 73-year-old actor, best known as Jim, the crotchety dad from The Royle Family, takes up the story: "The other day, I did a charity Can't Cook, Won't Cook at a local golf club. On the way out, a posh woman came up to me in a...

The Rest Is Noise festival starting at the Southbank next week promises to be the most original and challenging classical musical event of the year. And not the least interesting aspect of this celebration of exclusively 20th-century work will be to see how audiences respond to music that has a...