Data from the world's leading hotel groups, travel firms and trend forecasters suggests that 2026 will be the year of quiet escapes, algorithm-shaped itineraries, ultra-personalised retreats and a return to slower, more intentional travel.Number crunchers, behaviouralists and travel firms have been compiling their data...

Sri Lankan actor and musician GK Reginold rides a motorised fishing boat through Colombo's suburbs, hoping to bring food and water to those in desperate need.Some of the families, Mr Reginold says, have not received aid for days, isolated by the South Asian island...

With a little over two-thirds of the ballots in the Honduras election tallied, the lead has changed hands.The former vice-president, Salvador Nasralla, has a small but potentially significant lead over his rival, the conservative former mayor of Tegucigalpa, Nasry Asfura. Yet Asfura's National Party...

MOSCOW: Top US negotiators vying to end the war in Ukraine met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in a high-stakes meeting happening as Moscow pressed battlefield advances.Putin, who received Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and US special envoy Steve Witkoff in the...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is projected to generate SR1.15 trillion ($306 billion) in revenue in 2026, a 5.1 percent increase on the 2025 estimate, underscoring the gains from the Kingdom’s ongoing economic diversification agenda.The 2026 budget, approved on Tuesday by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...

Prosecutors officially filed murder charges against the suspected shooter accused of killing one National Guard soldier and injuring another in Washington DC last Wednesday.According to a criminal complaint, Rahmanullah Lakanwal shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he fired and was reloading when a Guard member shot...