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My Christmas story begins in a small town in Pennsylvania. A group of men gather at the local playhouse late ...

Barely ten minutes after landing at Marco Polo airport in Venice, I was swinging my bag onto a wooden hulled s ...

It’s my first visit to Colombo since the terrible Easter Sunday bombings. The nation has been here before - f ...

British Airways flight 183 was taxiing for takeoff from London’s Heathrow Airport. It was 8pm and I was bound ...

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