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Oman’s desert island

Oman’s desert island

Though Oman is the tourist hotspot of the Arabian peninsula, the remote island of Masirah is barely known, but that may soon change The moonlight stippled the breakers with silver. On the beach a large loggerhead turtle was busy excavating, flipping flurries of sand away behind her

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Electric cars soon available from rental companies

As early as January, electric cars will be available at the nation’s two largest auto rental companies. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, North America’s largest car rental firm, unveiled plans to offer about 500 Nissan Leaf all-electric cars, initially at

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Auckland’s feast of food

Auckland’s feast of food

Auckland’s subtropical climate, Polynesian culture, unpolluted waters and cosmopolitan buzz have combined to create a world-class dining scene I’d heard all about New Zealand: sleepy; sheepy; 1950s England; dull and duller colonial cakes and overcooked roasts. Forget it. Auckland is so deliciously cosmopolitan that I’m wondering quite why I don’t live there.

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Samantha Cameron leaves Cornwall hospital with new baby daughter

Samantha Cameron leaves Cornwall hospital with new baby daughter

Prime minister’s wife and baby Florence Rose Endellion discharged from Truro maternity unit David Cameron’s wife, Samantha, left the Royal Cornwall hospital in Truro this morning with the couple’s new daughter, Florence Rose Endellion. She was driven from the rear of the hospital’s maternity unit in a black people carrier without waiting photographers, TV cameras and reporters catching a glimpse of the new baby

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Blackpool: profile of a ghost town

Blackpool: profile of a ghost town

Once the king of Britain’s resorts it is now better known for drunken stag bashes and ballroom-dancing OAPs.

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