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Best trips for 2014

Six once-in-a-lifetime holidays to awaken your wanderlust Each year we go further to bring you the very best trips from around the world. From hunting the Northern Lights in Norway to travelling by luxury train through the heart of ancient Persia, here are our top six holiday ideas to help inspire…

Everest in numbers

Since the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, 60 years ago on 29 May 1953, the mountain has lured countless climbers and trekkers keen to walk in its shadow and test themselves against the highest mountain on earth. Since then a host of other ascents have provided statistics and records, some…

24 hours in Shanghai

Shanghai is undergoing the greatest economic explosion the world has ever seen, as it begins to claw back the position it held as East Asia's leading business city before World War II. Here Channel Editor Luke McCormick takes you on a 24-hour tour.

Macau Asia | UNESCO World Heritage

For nearly three times as long as the British held Hong Kong, the Portuguese ruled Macau, 60 km further west. December this year marks the tenth anniversary of the Portuguese departure, and of Macau’s establishment as a Special Administrative Region of China. A decade on and tourism is on the r…