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Deborah O’Donoghue is a British-Irish writer who has lived in the UK, France and Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by Legend Press in 2019 and comes out in Germany in 2021. Follow Deborah on Twitter and Instagram.

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15 November 2023

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Virgin’s Richard Branson rumoured to be launching Eurostar rival

Eurostar’s privileged position as sole operator of high-speed cross-Channel passenger trains is under threat for the second time in as many months. Rivals for passengers’ hearts […]

15 November 2023

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Plane hits moving car during emergency landing in Texas

A plane has crashed into a car at Aero Country Airport in Texas. Despite there being two passengers in the aircraft and one in the car, […]

14 November 2023

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You can send your name to deep space with NASA’s “Message in a Bottle”

Even though space tourism is starting to get off the ground, most of us will probably never travel to the moon, Mars or anywhere else beyond […]

14 November 2023

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Digital Schengen visa gets final green light

The European Council has just adopted new rules on the digitalisation of the application procedure for Schengen visa, giving the final green light for the process […]

14 November 2023

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London’s subway stations to be featured on Google Street View

Google Street View is set to venture into the subterranean world of the London Underground, capturing 360-degree images of approximately 30 metro stations. Stations such as […]

14 November 2023

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Emirates announces order for 95 Boeing aircraft worth €48.5 billion

Amid the Dubai Airshow 2023, Emirates and Boeing signed an agreement confirming the order of 95 additional wide-body aircraft to the airline, bringing Emirates’ backlog order […]

14 November 2023

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Japan gets a new island after volcanic eruption

Countries growing bigger, it’s not something most of us are confronted with on a daily basis – a few exceptions aside, such as Iceland, which grows […]

14 November 2023

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Air Canada to accelerate accessibility plan after rebuke from government

An incident in which a wheelchair user was forced to drag himself along the floor of an Air Canada flight to disembark has led to the […]

14 November 2023

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Russia to produce domestic plane that could be post-nuclear command post

Russia has completed a test flight of a domestically manufactured long- range widebody passenger plane, the IL-96-400M, in what it claims is a show of aviation […]

14 November 2023

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2023 hottest year on record and 2024 likely to be worse, say scientists

The global mean temperature for 2023 is set to be the highest ever registered, after record temperatures month on month between January and October. Billions of […]

13 November 2023

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7 reasons to plan a Christmas trip to Leuven

As Christmas aisles have already appeared in shops and Christmas lights are popping up along city streets, any Christmas enthusiast already knows the opening dates for […]

13 November 2023

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10 famous people from Belgium you should know about

Belgium might be a small country but for centuries it has been a crossroad of cultures, trade and intellectual exchange. It was also at the epicenter […]

13 November 2023

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Mystery billionaire offers €183,500 to influencer couple for one-year island gig

A mystery billionaire is seeking a dynamic duo to take on the role of a lifetime: living on and promoting his private Caribbean island as their […]

13 November 2023

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Israel-Hamas war is affecting air travel worldwide, new analysis shows

Since the Israel-Hamas war started at the beginning of October, airlines have suspended flights not only to Israel, but also to some neighbouring countries. And while […]

13 November 2023

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Blue Lagoon spa in Iceland temporarily closed due to possible volcanic eruption

Since October 25th, Iceland’s most populated region has been hit by a series of earthquakes. The area around Mount Thorbjorn on the Reykjanes Peninsula has been […]

13 November 2023

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Chinese airline honours $1.30 flight tickets sold during glitch

On Wednesday November 8th, over a timespan of just two hours, travellers were able to find some very good deals through China Southern Airlines’ app and […]