I’m a British tour guide in North Korea and everyone’s wrong about it – it’s just a normal place to live if you follow the rules

A British tour guide who shows visitors around North Korea says everyone’s ‘wrong’ about the country. Zoe Stephens, 31, from Liverpool, has visited North Korea 30 times since March 2016 – taking countless ‘foreigners’ from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia with her. She revealed there are set rules the group has to follow […]

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Jeremy Clarkson’s very unlikely replacement on The Grand Tour revealed

Jeremy Clarkson said he was leaving The Grand Tour because he was ‘too old’ (Picture: James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock) Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond may have left The Grand Tour, but the Amazon Prime TV show will live on. Last year, the former Top Gear trio announced their departure from the motoring series because they had grown […]

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Scientists say time travel IS possible – and people have already done it

From H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Christopher Nolan‘s Interstellar, the possibility of travelling through time has fascinated people for centuries. But, although it sounds like pure science fiction, physicists now believe that time travel really is possible. In fact, scientists say that people have already done it. But, before you start to plan […]

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Air travel is ready for the wheelie-suitcase surcharge

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Budget travellers were dismayed this month when Southwest Airlines ended its “bags fly free” policy and began charging for checked-in items. The US low-cost pioneer said the old promise was no longer a sufficient differentiator. […]

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