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Anne Frank museum to display her actual diaries

The Anne Frank House museum says it will permanently exhibit her diaries and other writings as part of activities commemorating the 80th anniversary of her birth on June 12, 1929.

Soweto weekend: B&B, Mandela tour, protest museum

The buffet at Sakhumzi, and the popular restaurant is a welcome stop at the end of a drizzly day spent exploring Soweto, with stops at the former home of Nelson Mandela and an anti-apartheid protest museum and an overnight at a homey B&B.

Hawaii hotels offers great (and bizarre) deals

With tourism in the dumps, Hawaii hotels are offering unprecedented discounts, freebies and other incentives in hopes of drawing tourists to the islands and survive the economic slump.

Angels & Demons in Rome: Tour book and movie sites

The tour, I hoped, would recreate that treasure hunt and maybe provide some real-life history along the way. It didn't disappoint.

South African wines winning more attention abroad

South Africans this year are celebrating the 350th anniversary of their wine industry and note proudly that it is generations older than any New World wines from Australia or South America.

Warning: The city with the worst food is...

If you plan to travel to Europe this summer, beware! London has the worst food. Paris is the most overrated. And Brussels is the most boring.

Rafting adventure on India's remote frontier

White water waltzer: tumbling into a washing machine on rarely rafted river in remote India!

Struggling to practice Arabic in Egypt

Egypt might be the center of the Arab world, but learning Arabic here can be hard!

Sweden's Ice Hotel starts selling tickets to space

You can sleep in eight degrees below zero, try dogsledding or go on a whale safari. Not exotic enough? Try a space trip through the aurora borealis.

Ireland's Aran Islands: Wild beauty and J.M. Synge

Inis Mor, the largest of the Aran Islands west of Ireland, is famous for its wild, rugged beauty, a thousand miles of stone walls, stunning views across the Atlantic and clusters of ancient ruins.

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