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Juliet Kinsman: From Butlin's to boutique, hotels get in on the family act
Saturday 13 April 2013
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Deals of the week - Nice, Tunisia, Thailand
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Less than £200... Escape the big freeze with a short break to the more temperate climes of southern France. British Airways Holidays has a three-night city break in Nice for £160 per person, staying at the Hôtel Comté with room-only board and flights from Gatwick on 21 April. Ba.com/nice
Tunisian man immolates himself in Arab Spring reprise
Tuesday 12 March 2013
A young cigarette vendor has set himself on fire in Tunis, reviving memories of similar events two years ago that sparked an uprising which spread across the Arab world.
Postcard from... Tunisia
Thursday 07 March 2013
The Harlem Shake video produced by students at a language school in Tunis looks familiar enough. There is a boy with a cardboard box over his head dancing wildly, a girl in a dressing gown jumping up and down, a mass of hair bouncing with her.
Four radicals arrested as police hunt for known assassin of Chokri Belaid
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Tunisia's new Prime Minister tries to ease tension after opposition leader's murder
To make freelancing safer, young foreign journalists need more support and less sneering
Monday 25 February 2013
It grates when established foreign correspondents lay into young reporters
Tunisia: Hardline Islamist asked to govern
Friday 22 February 2013
The Tunisian President yesterday asked the Interior Minister Ali Larayedh, a hardliner from the main Islamist Ennahda party, to form a government within two weeks.
Police fire tear gas at slain politician Chokri Belaid's funeral
Saturday 09 February 2013
Supporters of Tunisia's ruling moderate Islamist party are being called to attend a pro-government rally a day after clashes between protesters and police, following the funeral of the opposition politician Chokri Belaid, whose assassination this week tipped the country to the edge of revolt.
Fresh crisis in Tunisia as PM's party turns against him
Thursday 07 February 2013
Ennahda scuppers substance of Hamadi Jebali's TV address to the nation and street protests ensue
Uprising in Tunisia as regime critic is murdered
Wednesday 06 February 2013
Government falls after killing provokes violent protests in cradle of Arab Spring
Tunisian politician Chokri Belaid shot dead
Wednesday 06 February 2013
A Tunisian opposition party leader who criticised the Islamist-led government and violence by radical Muslims was shot dead outside his home today, officials said.
British man Robert Plant charged with French jogger's murder
Wednesday 30 January 2013
A British man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was killed while out jogging in France.
Tunisia: Treasures for the taking
Wednesday 16 January 2013
It's been two years since the Arab Spring uprising, yet tourists have failed to return to Tunisia in any numbers. All the more reason to pay a visit
British Airways flight in emergency landing after 'drunk abusive middle-aged women try to storm cockpit'
Thursday 03 January 2013
The BA Boeing 737-400, which was on route to Tunisia, had to divert to Lyon to make an emergency landing
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China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016
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Exclusive: Championship clubs set to push for safe-standing trials
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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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