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The organizers of a "international arts, music and cultural festival" have apologized after images and video posted on social media revealed packed crowds of partiers without masks in Mexico's hipster resort town of Tulum.

Irish camera collector William Fagan developed an old roll of film, unearthing beautiful 1950s travel photos taken in Switzerland and Italy. Now he's trying to track down the couple in the shots.

The holidays are different this year, but this off-kilter season is also the chance to try out a new tradition or two from around the world.

Hong Kong has put a temporary ban on four international airlines from flying specific routes into the city under a new law aimed at stopping the spread of Covid-19.

With Covid-related ski lift closures in Austria, France, Italy and Germany, the Alps will be a no-go area for skiers over the usually busy year-end holidays season. So why, just a few miles away in Switzerland, is it a completely different story?

Underneath the North Atlantic Ocean lies a series of sub-aquatic tunnels, connecting the rugged islands that comprise the northerly Faroe Islands archipelago.

Traveling and eating: Traditionally, these are the two key ingredients of a successful holiday season.

With a vaccine now rolling out in the UK, other countries won't be far behind. But a vaccine won't single-handedly ensure the virus doesn't cross international borders when travel picks up.

While the European Union's four biggest skiing destinations - Germany, France, Italy and Austria - have decided to keep their ski lifts closed over Christmas, Switzerland has decided to keep its resorts open. CNN's Melissa Bell travels to Verbier, Switzerland, to see how the ski resort is taking measures to keep the virus away amid rising Covid-19 infections.

A Royal Caribbean cruise ship has returned to port in Singapore after a passenger tested positive for Covid-19.

As social distancing becomes the norm across much of the world, Italy's lesser-known destinations are receiving a huge boost.

A gyrocopter tour of the city's landmarks in 20 high-octane minutes.

Among advice offered to minimize the risk of coronavirus exposure among cabin crew, China's civial aviation body suggests they wear disposable undergarments to reduce the need to visit the toilet.

After more than a decade of dispute and controversy, China and Nepal have finally agreed on how tall Mount Everest is.

When the Mose flood barriers were activated in October, serious flooding in Venice was meant to be a thing of the past. But stormy weather this week combined with an incorrect weather forecast that meant the barriers weren't raised saw the city go underwater again, causing "serious damage" to St Mark's Basilica.

There's no "best way" to get across the United States during a pandemic.

"Ghosts, Spirits, and a Little Bit of Dark History" is a tour led by Justin Dunne, a Californian who, for more than 10 years, has been scouring Bangkok's back alleys for ghostly encounters and, in his words, "vibrationally challenged places."

I am a third-generation Angeleno. For most of my adult life living in Los Angeles, as a luxury lifestyle public relations executive and to satisfy my own wanderlust, I would travel as much as possible to tropical parts of the world, with any opportunity that arose. I lived on Maui for three years and truly embraced the Hawaiian culture and loved living by the beach in nature.

When two otters lost their longtime lovers earlier this year, they became quite lonely. Thanks to an otters-only dating site, "Fishing for Love," they found each other amid a global pandemic and are living happily otter after.

Gaëlle Simon, a check-in and boarding agent at Brussels Airport, Belgium, used to feel lucky to work at an airport.