It is eighteen years today since the fall of the Berlin Wall. But it seems that memories are fickle. When I was heading there recently a friend, an educated one I might add, said to me, “Berlin, is that the place that had the Wall?” I was incredulous. A walk around Berlin’s city centre...

Besides beating Namibia and recording their first-ever win in the Rugby World Cup this year, Georgia hasn’t been in the news much since the Rose Revolution of 2003 saw now-President, Mikhail Saakashvili catapulted democratically into the country’s top office. Now however, Georgia - popular...

It’s unclear whether the difference between emergency rule and martial law is only semantics (particularly when your President is also the Chief of Army Staff), but it’s easy to see that travel to Pakistan right now is not to be taken lightly. Sure the Karakoram Range and its famed mountain-highway...

For many Victorians it’s a much needed day of rest; an opportune time to take a long weekend - or to binge-detox between Saturday’s Derby Day and Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup. For the uninitiated, Australians stop work at 3pm on the first Tuesday in November… for a horse race. Victorians...

For anyone who has ever been diagnosed with breast cancer and then denied travel insurance or charged sky-high premiums, Insure Pink has now launched a travel policy which caters for people with a history of the cancer. Developed in close consultation with UK breast cancer charities and with insurance...

Get your hands out and your cheesiest grin at the ready as Japan starts finger printing and photographing all foreigners entering the country in an anti-terrorism policy that is causing outrage among foreign residents and human rights activists. Immigration officials will run images and data through...