From budget breaks in Bodrum to direct flights to Canada, Travel Writer of the Year Pól Ó Conghaile picks his top overseas destinations for 2014.

This week's pick of what's on the box.

Plans are being made to bring home the remaining members of an expedition party rocked by a polar bear attack that left a British schoolboy dead.

TWO members of an expedition who were injured in a polar bear attack in which a 17-year-old boy was killed were due to return to Britain last night, the trip organisers said.

Two members of an expedition who were injured in a polar bear attack in which a 17-year-old boy was killed will return to the UK today, the trip organisers said.

The grieving family of the Englist schoolboy who was killed by a polar bear while on an adventure holiday in north Norway paid tribute to him today as “strong, fearless and kind”.

Four British people injured in a polar bear attack while on an adventure holiday in north Norway have undergone surgery and are recovering in hospital, medical staff said today.

A TEENAGE boy who was killed by a polar bear in northern Norway was named last night by the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES) as Horatio Chapple, aged 17.

A polar bear has killed a British man and injured four others in an attack on a group of campers in a remote Arctic region of Norway.

A polar bear has killed one person and seriously injured four in an attack on a group of campers from a British group in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago.

Ash from the erupting Icelandic volcano halted a single flight over Greenland today, but the most of it was expected to blow north of Scandinavia and disrupt few, if any, flights over Europe.

POLAR bears, seals and walruses are among a host of wildlife being hit by “devastating changes” brought on by warming temperatures in the Arctic, scientists warned yesterday.

AN official deposit of Irish agriculture seeds to the recently opened Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway was made yesterday.

A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened today deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

AIMED at providing mankind with a Noah’s Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe, an Arctic “doomsday vault” filled with samples of the world’s most important seeds will be inaugurated in Norway today.

IN a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirrelling away the world’s crop seeds in case of disaster.

Ice that broke off a glacier hit a sightseeing ship with 72 people aboard off the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic, injuring 18, two seriously, police and the tour operator said today.

AN Arctic ‘doomsday vault’ aimed at providing mankind with food in case of a global catastrophe will be designed to survive the effects of climate change, the project’s builders said as they unveiled the architectural plans.

Two Polish ski tourists sent out a distress call today after being caught in a severe Arctic storm on the desolate Svalbard islands north of Norway.

Living microbes found in what could be 1 million-year-old ice on a remote Arctic island support a theory the frozen planet Mars could also sustain life, researchers said today.

Norwegian researchers on a remote Arctic island have recovered rare fossil remains of two giant marine reptiles, one of them reminiscent of the fabled Loch Ness monster.

EUROPE shimmered in a blistering heatwave yesterday, delighting holidaymakers but causing concern for farmers and power companies.

A team of British amateur adventurers today told how they braved polar bears and frostbite to complete one of the last great arctic challenges.