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  This is the world’s No. 1 busiest airport. Here’s why

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  In our roundup of travel news this week: how Asia is coping with hyper-hot weather, a terrifying incident on board a budget airline, plus the world’s busiest airports of 2025. Why Atlanta? Last year, global air travel reached a record-breaking 9.8 billion passengers, according to a report on the …

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  Communist scientists built a Cold War cola to beat Coke. It’s still a hit — along with these 7 other global rivals

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  When American pharmacist John Stith Pemberton reached his eureka moment on May 8, 1886, his formula for what would become Coca-Cola sparked a global soft drink revolution that still reverberates today. In fact, it’s now possible to “buy the world a Coke,” as the 1970s jingle goes, in nearly every …

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  This London bar banned 6 footers from a singles night

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  Gen-Z is increasingly choosing "IRL" singles events over dating apps. London’s Dinner for One Hundred hosts chaotic dinner party-style dating nights — including one with a height limit for participants.

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  The mystical, secret island paradise in the middle of Africa’s largest lake

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  Bukasa, Uganda — On a tropical island more than 600 miles from the sea, a mystical waterfall springs out of a rock and cascades down a cliff, eventually flowing into Lake Victoria and then the Nile. It’s a natural and, for many Ugandans, a spiritual wonder. But the people who watch over Nanziri …

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  ‘We wanted to try something new’: This US family moved to Italy sight unseen nine years ago and never looked back

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  Jason Salesberry had never set foot on Italian soil before moving there in October 2017. Today, he owns a house in a hilltop town and is planning the harvest from his two-acre grove of olive trees. In the nine years since his family arrived in Naples sight unseen, their life has transformed into a …

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  The mistakes foreigners make when bathing naked in Japan

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  In our latest roundup of travel news, we bring you bathing tips from an onsen expert, a bear encounter in a Tibet hotel room, plus a new ranking of the world’s most liveable cities. Bathing and swim spots Japan’s famed hot springs, or onsen, are one of the country’s unique attractions, but …