In our roundup of travel news this week: the world’s top 100 cities for 2025, the world’s best hotels, the world’s tallest hotel, the world’s longest, deepest, undersea rail tunnel, plus two new record-breaking bridges in China and Kashmir.

With an estimated population of nearly 42 million residents, Indonesian capital Jakarta soared from 33rd place to surpass Japan's Tokyo, according to a new United Nations report.

There was a temporary exhibit in the lobby of Trump Tower this week, near the 60-foot waterfall, the gold-plated escalator and the gold-plated elevators, and it looked right at home. FIFA’s new Club World Cup trophy was crafted in collaboration with ...

You’ll really want to lick these stamps. Life is butter in France, whose postal service, La Poste, introduced nearly 600,000 stamps that smell like butter croissants in celebration of the “emblem of French gastronomy.” The savory stamp costs €2.10 ...

Which one is No. 1 in the U.S.? — -- intro: Ask a traveler what they plan to do on their next city jaunt and no doubt museum-hopping will be near the top of the list. TripAdvisor has just announced its Travelers' Choice Awards for museums, naming the ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The second Global Tipping Points Report, released Oct. 13, said ...

Excitement for the 2026 World Cup in the U.S., Canada and Mexico will ramp up a notch today, as the draw for the group stages takes place