Austrian wine has come a long way in the last 30 years and if you haven’t been exploring their wines you are missing out.

When a couple were asked to look after their friends’ baby boy, they were riddled with nerves yet found a unique way to ease the anxiety.

OF THE 12 million tourists who visited Thailand this year, many headed straight to the gems of the south to soak up the sun along tropical beaches, dive on spectacular coral reefs and indulge in a languid, sometimes lascivious, lifestyle.

DOZENS of parents, desperate to find missing children after massive tidal waves battered southern Thailand, turned up at a local hospital hoping that an unidentified two-year-old boy was theirs.

Apparently inspired by the film Free Willy, a group of activists has stolen a young seal that earlier escaped from a German zoo to set it free.