A snake charmer who made a name for himself as Malaysia’s Snake King has died after being bitten by a king cobra. Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, gained a place in the record books for locking himself in small spaces with hundreds of snakes or scorpions for days at a time. According to local press reports,…

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British shoppers heading across the Atlantic to the United States have been warned by HM Revenue and Customs that they must declare gifts bought in the US totalling over £145. Officials warn that if shoppers fail to declare their gifts and pay the required duty, they risk prosecution, which is rather a pity as the…

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News from Malaysia says that motorists driving along the East-West Highway in particular the stretch of road leading to Banding and Kota Baru in the east coast must not honk or switch on the car headlights when they come across elephants on the road. Perak Wildlife and National Parks Department director Shabrina Mohd Shariff said…

Europe From a Backpack series travel books have just published Italy From a Backpack and Spain From a Backpack. This is how the publishers describe the Europe Backpack books: despite their numbers, few, if any travel books have told their stories. Now, we have collected the best from more than 1,000 submissions. They cover a…

News from Italy reaches the Beetle of cheese raids, with criminal gangs hijacking lorries containing wheels of Parmesan cheese, cutting them up and selling them to stores. The Italian farmers’ union is experimenting with microchips which can be hidden in cheese crusts and then traced by satellite.

According to a recent UN report, up to 30% of girls in some Kenyan resorts are involved in the sex industry. The UN children’s fund UNICEF, which looked at resorts along Kenya’s coast, found that 15,000 girls aged 12 to 18, said to live in the resort areas districts of Mombassa, Kilifi, Malindi and Kwale…