TRAVEL & FOOD

Keep your health, sanity, and sense of humor wherever you are going this holiday season.

An original print of the "bare all" photo which was taken during her early years of her modeling was sold for approximately $25,000 in an auction.

Some 4,000 bus drivers of the NSW State Transit (NST) will get a 3.25 percent pay increase per year in the next three years.

When it comes to family travel, few vacations fit all. Some clans are theme park junkies, or sybarites, or scholars. And then there's the rest of us, simply looking to catch up with relatives and friends in a relaxing setting.

The proposal of Infrastructure NSW to provide free train travel from midnight to 7 a.m. to ease overcrowding on peak-hour trains received support from the Sydney Business Chamber (SBC) on Tuesday.

The Australian cities of Gold Coast and Newcastle formed with nine international cities the World Surf Cities Network with the aim of promoting the sport of surfing as an economic driver.

You can get away with carrying a lot less than you think.

China's hospitality industry is doing well right now as three major hotel chains in the past announced this week that they will be opening new hotels in China. China has become a very important market in the hospitality industry as more and more people are choosing to visit China while more Chinese are making visits around the country and staying in hotels in China.

Thai irrigation officials said flood waters in Bangkok will be gone in 11 days as it continues to drain into the sea at a rate of 400 million cubic metres per day.

Bad things can happen to good travelers. And while these worst-case scenarios are just that-things that could throw you for a serious loop, but most likely won't-that doesn't mean some prevention and damage control won't go a long way should something go wrong on the road.

At least 16 devotees of a Hindu sect, the All World Gayatri Parivar, were trampled to death and 50 others were injured on Tuesday when a stampede occurred while they were celebrating the 100th birthday of the founder in northern India.

In Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, so-called worshipers could no longer conduct an 800-year-old ritual honoring the mountain they consider sacred because the last and only priest who knows the rite had died.

Floodwater in Bangkok has crossed the Lat Phrao intersection on the northern edge of the city center and is closing in on bus terminals, subway stations and Skytrain stations on Sunday, according to reports.

Looking for the perfect romantic travel getaway to forget reality and enjoy some quality time with the one you love? Picking that ideal place can be a bit of a conundrum with so many destinations to choose from.

In this month's Industry Interview we chat to Stuart McDonald who's the founder of the popular go-to site for all things Southeast Asia, Travelfish.org.

A wooden boat packed with 70 suspected asylum seekers capsized off the coast of West Java in Indonesia on Tuesday drowning 17 people.

Jockey Lloyd Williams pulled out his race horse Mourayan from the Melbourne Cup at 10 a.m. of Tuesday. He informed Racing Victoria Chairman of Stewards Terry Bailey that Mourayan has toe problems.

After the drama that happened in Qantas, celebrities are finding ways to travel to the Carnival Spring Racing in Melbourne. They search for alternative flights to travel faster reach their destination immediately without causing delays.

Chosen as this year's model for the annual Fantasy bra, Kerr has been hitting the exercise circuit pretty hard.

Negotiations between the customs workers union and the Australian government over pay increase broke down on Tuesday and the one-day strike at airports will go ahead on Thursday.

A video footage showing an apparent alien in the Amazon jungle has been posted online and a paranormal claims that the footage is the best proof that extraterrestrials exist.

Virgin Australia has begun daily return services between Brisbane and Port Macquarie with new ATR turbo prop aircraft, as it continues to expand its regional presence.

The perfect getaway as far as cruise holidays go, Australia's love affair with Hawaii is taking off.

As thousands of people reach their goal of climbing Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, the cost to the environment can be felt in the form of man-made waste that visitors leave behind. That's why an environmental group has been asking the government of Nepal to have portable toilets installed on Mount Everest, reports the Himalayan Times.

Bad weather resulting in 4 meter swells has interrupted once again salvage and clean up efforts in relation to the stricken MV Rena, which is feared to split in half if the water swelling persists. The 47,000-tonne MV Rena, reportedly "croaking" and "groaning" as salvage operations were underway, is still spilling oil into New Zealand's Bay of Plenty almost two weeks since it ran aground Astrolabe Reef.

Taking a leap of faith to apply for an internship in the Big Apple proved fruitful for this young writer.

X Factor judge, Mel B, faces deportation scare in Australia due to VISA issues.

Over a thousand birds had been found dead since MV Rena's reef crash resulting in oil spill almost two weeks ago, as operations in oil removal have been stopped because media vessels are getting too close to the ship.

Virgin Australia has signed a codeshare agreement with Hawaiian Airlines, adding Honolulu to its growing international network.