Thousands of earthquakes have rattled the Greek island of Santorini since January and have also affected Croatia and Naples in recent days. Here, environmental scientist Deborah R. Coen warns that mor ...

Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match ...

Flights to Lisbon from Manchester with TAP Air Portugal during February half term start at a very reasonable £134pp return.

From Rome to Mexico, here are 11 educational trips you can take during half term with direct flights from Manchester Airport.

It was partly destroyed when the Great Lisbon earthquake shook Portugal in 1755 and generated a tsunami that heavily damaged parts of the Algarve, though Faro escaped more than many, protected by ...

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...

China’s most famous artist lives quietly in Portugal. But exile is hard, even if it’s golden. On the occasion of his latest exhibition at the MUSAC, a contemporary art museum in the city of León, ...

The tsunami scare on Saturday raises the question, how much of a risk do tsunamis pose for the Cayman Islands?

The Portuguese capital is only a two-and-half-hour flight from the UK. There are no direct flights to Lisbon from Liverpool ...

In what can only be described as a Pavlovian reaction, Donald Trump’s proposed reconstruction of Gaza has elicited howls of ...

and the bombastic 18th-century heart of Lisbon, built after so much of the city was destroyed in the 1755 earthquake. There is authentic, genuine and welcoming hospitality; and a wave of new and ...