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American tourist killed in Thailand

after a British man allegedly picked a fight with him at a bar, followed him back to his hotel and stabbed him to death, police said Sunday. Thailand – Phuket – Asia – United States – Provinces

Most expensive hotel cities

in Moscow have dropped, but it’s still the most expensive city in which to stay in a hotel. That’s according to Hogg Robinson Group (HRG), a British company that deals in corporate travel services. It just released average rates for the first six months

New U.K. data shows biggest drop in foreign trips on…

year, or 15% fewer than in 2009 – a decline that helps explain some of the results from hotel giants such as InterContinental Hotels Group and airline British Airways, the story says. The drop “was the biggest since records began in the 1970s,” the

MI6 worker guilty of disclosing secret material

east London, who holds British and Dutch nationality, was arrested in a Scotland Yard sting at a London hotel in March. He appeared before Mr Justice Bean at the Royal Courts of Justice in London for a plea and case management hearing on Wednesday

Voodoo and animism survive the crush of Haitian…

literary nostalgia for Greene?s portrait of Haiti under Francois ?Papa Doc? Duvalier, I wanted to stay at the Hotel Oloffson, where the novel is set. Just before arriving, I read the passage where the British narrator returns from a long stay abroad to

Plague-infected squirrel shuts camp area

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Man facing jail over ‘extraordinary’ Ritz scam

s luxury property dealers and convinced his victim that he had a contract to buy London’s Ritz hotel. Now a British judge has told Lee he faces a long sentence for tricking someone out of more than $1.5 million – supposedly as a down payment for the

UK conman convicted of trying to sell Ritz Hotel� 43…

An unemployed British truck driver was convicted Friday of trying to sell the world famous Ritz Hotel for 250 million pounds ($380 million) to a duped investor. Anthony Lee convinced potential buyer Terence Collins to hand over a million pounds in 2006.

CBI head Richard Lambert to step down in 2011

Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Director General, Richard Lambert, attends the annual dinner at the Grosvenor House hotel in London May 20, 2009. Lambert, a former member of the Bank of England’s rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, was

Ex-hedge fund manager fined for insider trading

he had made from directing trades towards one broker in exchange for cash, gift vouchers, gold, flights and hotel bookings. Last week British finance minister George Osborne announced plans to scrap the FSA, instead creating a new agency to crack down on