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Deadly flood threat hangs over French Alpine village
Scientists are racing to prevent a build-up of water under a glacier on Mont Blanc from flooding the village of Saint-Gervais Viewed from up here, the world of man appears very small and vulnerable. The Tête-Rousse glacier, hovering between sky and earth at an altitude of 3,200 metres, dominates the scene splendidly
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How to beat the tube strike by bike | James Randerson
Don’t let the tube strike defeat you.
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Arabian nights: stylish places to stay
Four new and revamped urban bolt holes in the Middle East and north Africa • Cairo’s Talisman Hotel ( i-escape.com/talismanhotel.php ), which opened a year ago near the Egyptian Museum, claims to be the city’s only boutique hotel. Its 24 colourful rooms (£66 B&B) with chandeliers, parquet floor and beautiful quilts, take up the fifth-floor of an apartment block in downtown Cairo and, along with decadent salons and a dining room, are accessed by an old wrought-iron lift
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Jordan’s green crusade
With all the Roman ruins and Petra, it’s tempting to focus on Jordan’s historic sites, but its nature reserves and their chic eco-lodges shouldn’t be missed Yellow grit, the depressing mesh fences of army barracks, and long chains of oil tankers coming in from Saudi Arabia. This was the Middle East as imagined by people who don’t know anything about the Middle East, and there had been nothing else in hours.
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Hot spots: what’s new in the Middle East
More and more of us are heading to north Africa and the Middle East, and there are plenty of new trips to these ancient lands Tour operators are reporting a sharp rise in bookings to the Middle East and north Africa as travellers grow more confident about unusual holidays. The Association of Independent Tour Operators said many of its members saw a rise in 2010. Cox & Kings said this is a record year, with bookings to the region up 75% on 2007, while Explore reports an increase of 66% to Syria.
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