Tijuana shedding its ‘shady’ image

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Americans have been travelling to this border city for at least a century to sample its nocturnal charms.

Watch VideoThe legend of LA’s Murder House

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In more recent years, this home has become a destination for ghost-hunters, LA crime tourists and the morbidly curious - and now it's up for sale. [VIDEO]

Tasting victory, Trump becomes pugnacious

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Donald Trump’s statement that he would like to punch a heckler in the face would have brought any other White House hopeful’s campaign to an abrupt halt.

Seattle comes clean on stricky attraction

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The 'Market Theatre Gum Wall' - a brick wall smothered in gobbets of gum - is to be scrubbed clean for the first time in two decades.

Watch VideoLiving the Pan Am Experience

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This probably doesn't sound like any commercial flight you've ever been on - or, at least, not in the past 35 years. [VIDEO]

Where’s all the water? Blame the almond

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As California descends into a potentially devastating drought, everybody is looking for someone, or in this case, something to blame.

Now Twitter faces sexism lawsuit

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Twitter has become the latest in a string of Silicon Valley firms to face a gender discrimination lawsuit.

A tough woman who saved the day

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A calm woman's kind words made all the difference in a life-and-death situation in Georgia, reports Tim Walker.

Space: the lonely frontier

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The loneliness of space will become a pressing concern if ever agencies decide to send humans to Mars.

Twister ‘more powerful than Hiroshima bomb'

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The vast tornado that struck an Oklahoma suburb dwarfed even the Hiroshima atomic bomb in its destructive power.

Room service, Japanese style

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Tokyo hotel puts you on top of the world with all the bells, whistles and bows, writes Tim Walker.

Off the eaten track

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The cookbook that thinks it’s a guidebook inspires Tim Walker to swap tourist traps for tiny trattorias on a culinary tour of Venice.

Trawling streets of Tokyo

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One of the best ways to scratch the surface of Japanese life is to eat and shop, and the Tsukiji fish market is a good place to start.

Science versus God

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“The probability of any supernatural creator existing is very, very low. ”