DPA The coach carrying tourists passes its third tractor, then a cyclist and horse-drawn cart on the six-lane highway running from Havana towards Vinales some 180 kilometres to the west. The driver brakes to give way to four cows crossing the wide strip of asphalt. “What a highway!” grins John Johnson, one of a party of tourists from California and ...

Dubai / EMIRATES BUSINESS Chuck E. Cheese has launched its second UAE destination at Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai. Launched in the US during the 1970s, the life-sized animated mouse Chuck E. and his friends have been entertaining kids across the world for nearly four decades, thanks to the safe, family-friendly environment that kids and parents just love coming back to. ...

DPA The days of scribbling “I woz here” on Florence’s historic monuments are gone: from now on would-be vandals will be able to graffiti via app instead, with their messages kept for posterity. “Welcome to Giotto’s Campanile!” reads a message on a digital tablet for visitors scaling the Gothic white, green and pink marble tower by the famed Italian architect, ...