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Heritage Day is also Braai Day

One Nation, One Fire: Inside South Africa’s Heritage Day (Braai Day)

It starts with a match. In a Cape Town township, a Johannesburg suburb, a Free State farm. And in backyards in London, Toronto, and Sydney. Every September 24, South Africans...

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Power bank rules on planes

Power Bank Rules on Planes in 2026: What Changed (and What’s Still Allowed)

Picture it: mid-flight, a passenger’s power bank starts smoking inside the overhead bin. The cabin fills with haze. The crew scrambles to reach a bag buried under a dozen others....

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A Filipino family lighting candles together at a cemetery during Undas

Flights Home for Undas: Planning Your November Homecoming to the Philippines

If Christmas is the loudest, most joyful season in the Philippines, then Undas is its quieter, more tender counterpart. Every first of November, families across the country come together. Not...

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Homowo Festival Ghana

Homowo Festival 2026: Ghana’s “Hooting at Hunger” Celebration and How to Get There

Every year, as summer fades, the streets of Accra come alive with drumming, dancing, and the smell of freshly made kpokpoi. This is the Homowo festival, one of Ghana’s most...

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Christmas Flights to the Philippines

Christmas Flights to the Philippines: Booking Your Pasko Homecoming

There’s a moment every overseas Filipino knows by heart. The calendar turns to September, a mall somewhere starts playing Jose Mari Chan, and no matter how far away you are,...

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The Odyssey Filming Locations

The Odyssey Filming Locations: The 6 Real Countries Behind Nolan’s Epic (and How to Fly to Each)

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey didn’t just open. It made a loud entrance. The $250-million retelling of Homer’s poem pulled in $124.5 million at home on its opening weekend (July 17)....

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