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Rates From 890 Swedish kronor, or about $96. The Basics The Blique by Nobis is the third Stockholm hotel designed by Gert Wingardh, a pre-eminent Swedish architect, for the NobisCQ hotel group. Opened in April, this industrial property spans two buildings, a former warehouse designed in the 1930s by another renowned architect, Sigurd Lewerentz, and […]

The offer seemed too good to be true: a three-day cruise to the Bahamas for $129. At a minimum, that’s room, meals and transit abroad for about the price of an average hotel room. Budget cruises abound in the ever-growing industry, where some 18 new ships are expected to launch this year, according to the

A power outage at one of France’s busiest train stations disrupted travel Friday on the Eurostar to and from London and other routes around the region. Eurostar urged passengers to avoid travel to or from Paris on Friday as workers fixed an overhead power line at the Gare du Nord train station. Two Eurostar trains

A Cyprus court has extended the detention of seven Israeli teenagers out of the 12 who were arrested as suspects in the rape of a 19-year-old British woman. The court ordered the suspects on Friday to remain in police custody for another six days to give investigators time to finish looking into the woman’s reported

They frolicked in fountains, jumped in lakes and canals, waded in the sea. And no wonder. It was, after all, one of Europe’s hottest-ever days. As the temperature climbed and climbed to record highs in multiple countries Thursday, people converged on any body of water they could find. In Paris, the fountains beneath Trocadero plaza

LONDON — British Airways said on Friday that it was resuming flights to Cairo, nearly a week after abruptly canceling services to the Egyptian capital over security concerns. The airline said in an emailed statement that it had made the decision after “a thorough assessment of the security arrangements.” “The safety and security of our

The Latest on Europe’s heat wave (all times local): 2 p.m. The U.N. weather agency is voicing “concern” that the hot air which produced a record-breaking heat wave across much of western Europe this week is headed toward Greenland and that it could lead to increased melting of ice. Heat records in France, Belgium, the

SURFACING In a city known for samba, “nobody expects a black, poor woman to play the violin.” Morro da Providência is one of Rio de Janeiro’s oldest favelas. For Gláucia da Silva, a young classical musician, the thirty-minute hike from the base of the favela to her mother’s house follows a steep incline and a

The Goûter Refuge — a futuristic structure that clings to a cliff at 12,516 feet — is, for many people, the final stop en route to the top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe, straddling the border between France and Italy. Every summer at least 20,000 people attempt the 15,776-foot summit. The

For the last 21 years, Maurice Legere has been a security officer at the Lotte New York Palace, a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. And for the last decade, in addition to keeping the building safe, Mr. Legere has given a tour of the hotel to loyal fans of the “Gossip Girl” television show, showing them