A new UN report details that life in Zimbabwe is shorter than anywhere else in the world, with the average person not expected to live to 40. Zimbabwe's women have an average life expectancy of 34 years and men on average do not live past 37. The World Health Organisation report said women's life expectancy…

A UK conservation group recently said that whale meat caught under Japan's “research” programme is so abundant it is being sold as pet food. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) say that thousands of tonnes of whale meat has been stockpiled as more animals are killed each year. The Japanese government has attempted to…

There's a new car rental company started called the bio-beetle, the worlds first truly ECO rental car company in the world who power all their cars on vegetable oil biodiesel. Based in Los Angeles California and Maui, Hawaii right now and growing. Take a look at http://www.bio-beetle.com

Easyjet one of the UK's low cost airlines has just announced flights to three new destinations: London Luton to Rijeka starting 30th June and also to Istanbul starting 29th June plus London Gatwick to Marrakesh starting 4th July. See their website.

Spotted by Tony of London: ever needed to know what the time was half way round the world? This website tells you the current time just about anywhere in the world. In considerably bad taste, here's a website that offers tours to see Schappelle Corby in her prison cell in Bali.

The Space Adventures company, the American company that arranged for multi millionaire tourists to hitch a ride into space on Russian rockets is planning to turn Singapore into the world's main centre for space tourism. The company wants to set up its own launch pad and astronaut training centre on Singapore and also make the…

Sometimes you don't know you're being conned, but here's a scam surely to end all scams: a fake Zimbabwean traditional healer has been found guilty of scamming a businesswoman out of $30,000 to pay for “mermaids” to recover her stolen car. The healer said that money was necessary to import the mermaids from the UK…

At a time when if you lock your case flying from the US, it will be forcibly opened and searched, news comes in from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics that more bags were lost, damaged, delayed or pilfered by U.S. airlines last year than in at least eight years. Reports of mishandled bags on domestic…

The European Union has issued a blacklist banning 92 airlines from operating in the region, stating that they fail to meet international standards. Most of the airlines are African based, including 50 carriers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, 14 from Sierra Leone and seven from Swaziland. The list is available from the BBC here.

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