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Vietnam’s largest metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City, has long excelled at boundary-pushing night life. But now a vibrant new scene is creating late-night laughter across this city of 9 million: stand-up comedy. Started by English-speaking foreigners, stand-up comedy is increasingly becoming a new tradition among Vietnamese in the bustling city locally known as Saigon. Local […]

Waters are rising in Venice where the tide is reaching exceptional levels just three days after the Italian lagoon city experienced its worst flooding in more than 50 years November 15, 2019, 9:16 AM 1 min read Waters are rising in Venice where the tide is reaching exceptional levels just three days after the Italian

19 Lesser-Known Amusement Parks Worth Visiting Around The World | HuffPost Life Part of HuffPost Travel. ©2019 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. Amusement parks are beloved destinations for kids and adults alike. Some, like Walt Disney World, even have a cultlike following among visitors. But beyond the classics like Disney World, Universal and Six Flags,

Naptown. India-No-Place. My hometown had a lot of nicknames when I was growing up there in the ’80s and ’90s, few of them charitable. Even more generous ones, like “Crossroads of America,” seemed to say that Indianapolis was a place one merely passed through. But things have changed since then. These days, I’m playing catch-up

Milos, the southernmost of the sun-baked Cyclades islands off mainland Greece, is a volcanic oasis home to picturesque whitewashed villages and hidden cliff-ringed coves. Formed around a central caldera and characterized by lunar-like rock formations, it has the highest concentration of beaches in the entire island group — and yet, it’s delightfully untrodden compared to

You’re planning a trip to a new place, say, Copenhagen. When you mention it to your pal she exclaims, “I have a friend in Copenhagen! You should meet them!” Grab that chance. Getting together with a local can take you beyond the tourist sites and Instagram opportunities, allowing you to more deeply experience the community

I swim along the coast of Kimolos, north of Milos, keeping the cliff-top white church in view when I breathe, then checking below me as a ray slips smoothly along the white sand. To swim is to be in two places at once, a surfacing of the eyes into the world of air, then down

Record crowds at airports anticipated over Thanksgiving holiday period By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer November 13, 2019, 6:44 PM 3 min read Record throngs of travelers are expected to jam into airports over the Thanksgiving break and airlines are adding hundreds of flights a day in response. The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that

The women gathered inside a roped-off area at Newark Liberty International Airport. United Airlines staffers, all of them women, handed out bag tags and boarding passes. When a man approached the counter and presented his I.D. to check in for a flight, he was politely turned away. “Sorry,” a United employee said. “This is a

Hyatt removing small bathroom amenity bottles by 2021 in effort to reduce waste November 13, 2019, 9:15 PM 1 min read Hyatt Hotels Corp. is the latest hotel company to say it’s removing small bottles from its bathrooms in an effort to reduce waste. Hyatt says it is shifting to large, multi-use bottles for shampoo,