Why cancers are rising in healthy under 50s, according to experts

[ Fit, slim young people don’t get cancer, right? Wrong. More people under 50 are getting cancer than ever before. Nobody knows precisely why it is happening, and as the recent sad announcement from the Princess of Wales, 42, proves even apparently healthy women can fall victim to the disease. The Palace has not specified … Read more

Europe’s good-value twin city break with a new rail route

[ Picture a four-hour train ride in spacious first-class seats, with hot drinks and a brownie brought to your seat as the countryside whizzes by. Coming in at just €34 (£29), you’re not paying UK rail prices – this is a new, four-and-a-quarter-hour-long service linking the Baltic capitals of Vilnius and Riga. The LTG Link … Read more

I was a Hong Kong expat for 18 years

[ Amid the soaring skylines and neon-bathed streets of Hong Kong, Expats is a new six-part thriller starring Nicole Kidman which will resonate with many foreigners who have called the city home. For 18 years I was one of those 600,000 expats, living in the city of 7.5 million – but not all expat lives … Read more