Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to 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 the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
Lawmakers in Finland have passed an education bill giving teachers the power to remove students’ mobile phones and restrict their usage during the school day. The […]
Amazon successfully launched the first 27 satellites for its Kuiper broadband internet constellation from Florida on Monday 28 April 2025, marking the beginning of the long-awaited […]
Stomach bug cases on cruise ships are increasing due to a “newly dominant strain” of norovirus, says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), […]
Around 100 people are bitten by sharks each year, across the seas, with fewer than 10 of those encounters proving fatal. A recent study suggests that […]
Last Monday the Mission of China to the EU hosted an award ceremony in Brussels to honour winners of a creative contest marking the 50th anniversary […]
Disney Cruise Line is set to delight travellers once again with the upcoming launch of Disney Destiny, the newest addition to its fleet — and quite […]
Viking Ocean Cruises has announced it to be partnering with the Fincantieri Ancona shipyard to build the world’s first zero-emission cruise ship. The Viking Libra, as […]
A new cruise line wants to revolutionise the way we live by transforming travel into a permanent way of life, offering full-time residency across the seas […]
The 5th China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) is held in South China’s island province of Hainan from April 13 to 18, 2025. To mark the […]
Pakistan should remain under travel restrictions until at least July 2025, World Health Organization (WHO) officials have said, due to an ongoing polio outbreak classed as […]
For the first time in history, a cruise ship is set to circumnavigate the whole of Antarctica. Ponant Explorations’ luxury icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot will make […]
Japan has a new 3D-printed railway shelter, put together in just six hours, in a project that authorities hope will save services in remote locations thanks […]
A zoo in the United Kingdom opened the country’s largest ever habitat zone on 5 April 2025, giving 57 species of creature, from aardvarks to giraffes […]