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Ask Blake Scholl about how Boom Supersonic is doing today and he’ll respond by telling you where he hopes his supersonic jet startup will be tomorrow. It’s a well-honed vision: “To build a future where more people travel more often. To do that, we need flights that are significantly faster, ultimately more affordable and a big leap forward in sustainability.”

Every year since 2009, the World’s 50 Best Bars has released its list of top tipple temples from across the globe. Not once has a single bar from Africa ever qualified for that list. It actually remains the only habitable continent on earth to be denied such a spot. And it’s not for lack of trying. There are countless candidates from Morocco all the way down to Cape Town befitting of the merit. None are knocking on the door quite so loudly as Hero Bar in the heart of Nairobi, Kenya.

A 41-year-old man fell overboard early Friday morning while on a heavy-metal-themed "Headbangers Boat" cruise, according to Miami news outlet WTVJ.

In June, Matvey Usanov, a 28-year-old financial analyst from St. Petersburg, set out on the adventure of a lifetime.

A passenger on an Air Canada flight says he had to get on the floor and drag himself to the front of the plane after airline staff wouldn't assist him, Canadian broadcaster CBC News reported.

In the world of aviation, you don't get much bigger than Airbus — a company that has been the world's largest manufacturer of airliners since 2019.

This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Kylee Nelson, a 34-year-old travel nurse who's been to over 40 countries and runs the blog Passports and Preemies. She shares what she experienced while living in the Middle East. It's been edited for length and clarity. 

In my latest column where I interview actors, singers and other creatives about travel as it relates to their craft, I interviewed Ryan McKinny, a bass-baritone singer who plays the role of Joseph De Rocher in the MET’s blockbuster production of “Dead Man Walking.”

A Canadian man who is stuck in Israel said the Canadian Embassy in the country hasn't provided any assistance to him.Robbie Segall, who moved to Tel Aviv in August for an internship, told Insider that he was redirected to an emergency hotline when he called the embassy Sunday. A representative told him that it was closed over the weekend and was shut on Monday because of Canadian Thanksgiving. 

A man has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of assaulting a 13-year-old girl on a red-eye Delta flight after the lights were dimmed and other passengers fell asleep in June 2022.

Tom Robinson, 24, attempted to become the youngest person to row across the Pacific Ocean, but his dream was unfortunately deferred. 

A man on board a Singaporean Airlines flight to Vietnam got his hand stuck in a cup holder while trying to see if it would fit in the hole.

A Canadian man has sparked strong reactions from non-Americans on TikTok after he shared a video recapping a Europe trip that did not live up to expectations. Several angry initial commenters mistakenly assumed he was American, with one top commenter hurling "f america" in response. 

A British man fell 300 feet to his death last week after slipping off an Instagram-famous ladder bridge in the Austrian mountains, police have said.

A man who traveled from Oklahoma to Ireland to golf with his friends said he spent his vacation without his clubs after his gear — equipped with an AirTag — sat at an airport across the ocean the entire time.

It's been nearly two weeks since a 26-year-old former US Army veteran seemingly vanished the morning a Carnival Cruise liner docked in the Port of Miami after a family vacation. 

Liesbet Collaert was about to blow up her life.

The internet is calling a TikToker "disrespectful" and "rude" after he filmed himself entering a women-only train carriage in Japan and compared it to gender-based segregation that countries like Saudi Arabia mandate. 

While my experience at Burning Man 2023 was incredible — and wildly different from the headlines — the entire week wasn't a total breeze. 

There are plenty of people out there who, for some ungodly reason, pay lots of money to be scared.

As our RV drove away from Black Rock City, just as the playa was waking up to another sunrise, my phone came back to life.