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Article content The rugged rugby-loving citizens of New Zealand, that oft-overshadowed chunk of Down Under forever trying to distance itself from swaggering Australia next door, have long coped with isolation through a passion for foreign travel. Young Kiwis have for decades crossed “the ditch” — the Tasman Sea — to work and play in Aussie metropolises like Sydney and Melbourne, and going “OS” — overseas — is a rite of passage for thousands of gap-year backpackers. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or New Zealand promotes its splend...

It's been 30 years since the country saw off the Soviets in a singing revolution.

COVID-19 crushes Mayflower party, but city set to fete epic voyage

Free online experience lets you experience magnificent temple in Baalbek, Lebanon.

Article content Pop quiz for aficionados of antiquities: where are the biggest Roman ruins located? Not Rome, as you might be inclined to think, but rather the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. With plague anxieties persisting, however, they might as well be on the surface of Mars. Which is why a new virtual-tourism venture exploring Baalbek, home to the largest Roman temple ever built, as well as an array of other grandiose ancient structures, is so well-timed. Known by the 4th-century Greeks as Heliopolis, or the City of Sun, the hilltop complex was named after the Phoenician god Baal and was first ...