Political unrest is causing British holidaymakers to switch away from the "Costa del Kasbah" destinations of Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey, it has been revealed.

Instead, UK tourists are taking more trips to traditional favourites such as France, Italy and Spain, according to an analysis of nearly five million holidays by the Co-operative Travel...

Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces signed a management contract with JK Hotels, a private Moroccan company, to operate Taj Palace Marrakech.

The hotel is set to launch in autumn 2011. The opening will increase Taj’s international portfolio to 17 hotels, including the Taj Cape Town, which opened in 2010. The...

RAF jets were among Nato forces which struck a command and control centre where Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi sometimes lives.

The alliance said the dictator was not a target and there was no way of knowing whether he was there at the time of the raid.RAF Typhoons were among...

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is shuttling between Tripoli’s hospitals to elude nighttime raids by NATO jets

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is shuttling between Tripoli’s hospitals to elude nighttime raids by NATO jets, a European government official said.Qaddafi is moving between the hospitals because he knows...

UK clears attack helicopters to join Libya campaign

Britain has said its helicopters can fly sorties over Libya as it seeks to raise the pressure on Muammar Gaddafi to step aside, British officials said on Thursday.French Defence...

Libyan rebels clash with Sudanese mercenaries

- Libyan rebels clashed Wednesday with Sudanese mercenaries fighting for Moammar Gadhafi near the border with Sudan, as President Barack Obama predicted the Libyan leader would be forced to...

Syrian site reportedly bombed by Israel in 2007 was "very likely" to have been a nuclear reactor,

Syrian site reportedly bombed by Israel in 2007 was "very likely" to have been a nuclear reactor, the UN atomic agency said in a report that could pave the...

U.S. invites Libyan rebel council to open D.C. office

A top envoy from the U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that Libya’s rebel government would open an office in Washington, the latest indication that the United States views the...

Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are to be tried over the deaths of anti-government protesters

Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are to be tried over the deaths of anti-government protesters, judicial officials say.Mr Mubarak, who was ousted in February, is...

Ryanair called for restrictions on airlines to be lifted after it claimed to have flown a plane safely though the thickest part of the volcanic ash cloud.

The airline said it strongly objected to the disruption under orders from the Irish Aviation Authority which saw flights cancelled at Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.Ryanair said it had completed...

The chief of Libya’s oil ministry fled to Tunisia over the weekend,

The chief of Libya’s oil ministry fled to Tunisia over the weekend, the Tunisian interior ministry said Tuesday, in a high-level defection that appeared to further isolate the government...

The net was closing on Colonel Gaddafi yesterday as Nato was urged to intensify its bombing campaign while prosecutors prepared to hunt him down for war crimes.

General Sir David Richards, the head of the Armed Forces, said the international coalition must be allowed to attack a wider range of targets and ‘tighten the vice’ on...

Tunisian security forces on Sunday arrested two people suspected of being members of al Qaeda

Tunisian security forces on Sunday arrested two people suspected of being members of al Qaeda near the Libyan border who were carrying an explosives belt, several bombs and led...

Libyan state TV broadcast a recorded audio message from leader Muammar Gaddafi Friday evening in which he says he is still alive

Libyan state TV broadcast a recorded audio message from leader Muammar Gaddafi Friday evening in which he says he is still alive after claims earlier in the day he...

Hillary Clinton even kept hubby in the dark over 'Osama operation'

Former US President Bill Clinton has claimed that he was kept in the dark by his wife, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, about the raid on Osama bin...

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's wife, Suzanne, was in intensive care Saturday after state television reported she had suffered a heart attack following her remand in custody in a corruption probe.

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's wife, Suzanne, was in intensive care Saturday after state television reported she had suffered a heart attack following her remand in custody in a...

Libyan state television has broadcast an audio message from Moammar Gadhafi

Libyan state television has broadcast an audio message from Moammar Gadhafi in which the Libyan leader assures his people that he is alive and in a place where NATO...

Eman Obeidy, the Libyan woman who entered the international spotlight after claiming Moammar Kadafi's militiamen gang raped her in March, apparently fled to Tunisia this week.

Obeidy told CNN that she crossed the border from Tripoli Thursday with the help of a defecting military officer in a military car.The car was stopped several times at...

Desperate tyrant Colonel ­Gaddafi used crop-spraying planes to bomb rebel-held port Misrata yesterday.

He ordered the light ­aircraft on the night raid after 70 per cent of his land ­armoury was destroyed by allied strikes.The small planes ­destroyed eight oil storage tanks...

A rescue ship evacuated about 800 migrants, journalists and wounded Libyans from Misrata port

A rescue ship evacuated about 800 migrants, journalists and wounded Libyans from Misrata port in heavy shelling, but was forced to depart in haste and leave hundreds of desperate...

American forces were led to Osama bin Laden by his most trusted courier, a Kuwaiti-born man named Sheikh Abu Ahmed.

The shadowy figure was identified after Al Qaeda commanders held at Guantanamo Bay admitted they knew him - and that he had connections to Bin Laden.But the confessions were...

Osama bin Laden was buried at sea from the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier because there was "no land alternative," a senior Department of Defense official said Monday.

Osama bin Laden was buried at sea from the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier because there was "no land alternative," a senior Department of Defense official said Monday."When...

The al-Qa'ida leader Osama bin Laden has been killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan

The al-Qa'ida leader Osama bin Laden has been killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan, President Barack Obama announced today.The killing ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt...

The Italian and British embassies in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, have been attacked

The Italian and British embassies in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, have been attacked in apparent retaliation for a NATO missile strike that reportedly killed leader Moammar Gadhafi's youngest son...

The Libyan ambassador to the UK has been expelled following attacks on British embassy premises in Tripoli,

The Libyan ambassador to the UK has been expelled following attacks on British embassy premises in Tripoli, Foreign Secretary William Hague said.He said Omar Jelban was "persona non grata"...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO airstrike on Saturday night that killed his youngest son Saif al-Arab and three of his grandchildren

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO airstrike on Saturday night that killed his youngest son Saif al-Arab and three of his grandchildren, a Libyan government spokesman said.Mussa Ibrahim...

Nato air strike in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has killed the son of the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi,

a government spokesman has said.Colonel Gaddafi himself was in the large residential villa which was hit by the strike, the spokesman added, but he was unharmed.His son Saif...