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'A writhing mass of flesh-eating maggots': Doctors find larvae inside British woman’s ear after she complained of headaches and bizarre scratching sounds inside her head
Wednesday 17 July 2013
27-year-old Rochelle Harris had just returned from a holiday in Peru
Prime suspects? Six Australian backpackers accused of Peru murder
Tuesday 02 July 2013
They protest their innocence, but have been ordered back to South America ahead of a trial
On The Menu: Tay Do's spicy squid; Ceviche: Peruvian Kitchen; Bloom London Dry Gin; Byron; Tio Pepe Diners' toothpaste
Thursday 13 June 2013
This week I've been eating... Spicy squid
The Big Six: Peruvian pit stops
Saturday 30 March 2013
Andean-style furnishings, hot springs and private beaches
Album: Los Chinches, Fongo (Movimientos Records)
Saturday 23 March 2013
The wild, psychedelic artwork of the cover suggests something heavier and more unhinged than what's actually delivered by this half-European, half-Latin American band on their debut album.
Postcard from... Lima
Monday 18 March 2013
Another step forward for Peru's fragile democracy, still recovering from President Alberto Fujimori's mass larceny and crimes against humanity in the 1990s.
Costa Concordia victims tell of terror and chaos
Tuesday 05 March 2013
Harrowing descriptions of how the 32 victims of the Costa Concordia disaster met their deaths have been presented to an Italian judge.
'This is insane!' Couple feared abducted in Peru are found - kayaking up the Amazon
Thursday 28 February 2013
Two American tourists feared dead or kidnapped deep in the Amazon Basin have turned up at a Peruvian military base, apparently bemused that their attempt to get away from it all sparked such alarm.
Video: Is this the worst case of bad sportsmanship ever?
Friday 22 February 2013
Paolo Di Canio picking the ball up at Goodison Park in December 2000 when Everton goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was injured will always be remembered as a rare act of great sportsmanship.
Donald MacInnes: My ex-backpacker wife gets drastic when I eye the plastic
Friday 08 February 2013
In The Red
Shaftesbury starved of space for eateries
Friday 08 February 2013
An explosion in international dining is putting restaurant space at a premium in the West End, the landlord behind swathes of Carnaby Street and Chinatown said today.
Bound, beaten and robbed: Backpackers attacked by whip-brandishing Peruvian villagers in 'savage' two day ordeal
Monday 04 February 2013
New photo reveals injuries sustained by the three Americans
Are we seeing the last flight of the condor?
Sunday 27 January 2013
Numbers of this magnificent bird have crashed. Mitra Taj in Lima on efforts to halt the decline
The most terrifying spider in the world builds a fake spider decoy to trick its victims
Thursday 20 December 2012
If you thought the film Arachnophobia was the scariest thing you've seen - probably best to stop reading now.
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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