Rhiannon Batten brings you the premier romantic hideaways for that very special holiday

Rhiannon Batten brings you the premier romantic hideaways for that very special holiday

Hurricane Ivan has brought widespread devastation to the Caribbean "spice isle" island of Grenada, damaging 90 per cent of homes and destroying a 17th century stone prison that left criminals on the loose as looting erupted.

We live in the age of mendacity, where fibbing is normal and outright lying passes for entertainment. No wonder, then, that your child wants a lie detector for Christmas

Coming eyeball to eyeball with a great white, or swimming with hungry hammerheads is all in a day's work for the chainmail- wearing photographer Jeffrey L Rotman. Here, he explains his 25-year-long mission to capture the perfect shark picture

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HURRICANE FLOYD, one of the strongest, largest storms seen in the Atlantic, was due to hit land early this morning near Wilmington, North Carolina, after sparing Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

FLORIDA WAS bracing itself for the arrival of Hurricane Floyd last night as the storm gathered pace with winds exceeding 150mph. Residents were evacuated from the state's barrier islands as meteorologists watched the season's biggest hurricane so far head for the mainland.

A PROMISE of glorious weather inspired bank holiday travellers to make an early start as traditional traffic jams built up across the country.

Channel accident: International investigation to discover how cruise liner and cargo ship collided off Margate

MICHAEL ASHCROFT, the billionaire treasurer of the Conservative Party, has one major problem - the British Establishment does not trust him.

Eleuthera offers superb beaches, great weather (give or take the odd hurricane) and prices to make you weep. By Andrew Thorman

"GOD IS a great dramatist," the Brazilian writer Alfredo Dias Gomes once joked, "but his plots always end in death. If I were God, I'd think up a different ending." Unfortunately, he did not get the chance to invent another ending for himself, and died in a car accident in Sao Paulo.

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