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It has now been two years since the Taliban toppled the Afghan government after Western nations chaotically withdrew after a 20-year occupation.

There is great pleasure in “firsts”: first toy, first love, first car. The same is true of travel, where going somewhere for the first time can open you to new experiences, environments, people and flavours you never knew existed before. 

Labour has said people smugglers are “running rings” around the government’s efforts to stem the tide of small boats crossing the Channel after six migrants died and more than 500 others arrived on UK shores on Saturday alone.

Two people are in a serious condition in hospital and seven others were injured when a car crashed into a campsite in Pembrokeshire on Saturday night.

“If someone messes with the people, he is messing with my family.”

Think of the picturesque Italian region of Tuscany, and notions of wine, art and culture will likely spring to mind, from arguably the area’s most famous city, Florence, to Pisa’s iconic leaning tower. 

George Harrison’s mother once wrote that screaming Beatles fans made her “really ashamed” she was female, The Times reported. In a letter in 1963, Louise Harrison told a teenager about hysterical scenes she witnessed at a gig in Manchester. “I was really disgusted at the way the so-called fans just screamed…

Alexander Larcombe, associate professor and head of respiratory environmental health at the Australian Telethon Kids Institute explains how harmful volatile organic compounds, particulate matter and carcinogens have been found in e-cigarettes. 

Canfranc International railway station in the Spanish Pyrenees inspires “almost instant comparisons” with the fictional Grand Budapest Hotel in Wes Anderson’s film of that name, said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. “Ten times bigger than London’s St Pancras”, this “splendid beaux-arts construction surrounded by snow-capped peaks”, was the second-largest railway station in Europe when…