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Here are some tips on how to find a volunteer vacation on a budget — along with some sample trips.

On a recent press tour, a group of travel writers got to savour the beauty and the bounty of four of these islands in the sun: Salt Spring, Pender, Saturna and Galiano.

Seventy-nine miles north of Vancouver, Whistler is widely regarded as one of the world's best ski resorts.

When the orange globe of the sun finally appeared above the glowing volcanic horizon on Haleakala and edged slowly upwards, it was easy to imagine it might indeed be held in place by a great rope.

There are four different summits on Mont St. Hilaire; the highest one, known today as Pain de Sucre, was well known to aboriginal peoples in Champlain's day as a strategic observation point as well as a long-standing spiritual location.

Beaches not only come in all shapes, sizes, and textures, they come in a virtual rainbow of colors.

Tanzanian officials say 13 bodies and a plane seat have washed ashore on their beaches and investigators are trying to figure out if those are linked to the Yemenia Airways plane crash hundreds of miles away.

The clear water of the Ionian Sea and the surrounding white rocks make the southern Albanian beach a nice getaway.

STANDING TALL: Rachel Wardell, the first participant for British sculptor Antony Gormley's work One & Other, stands on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.

Iran has freed one of its last two detained British embassy workers - as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Western countries against interfering in Tehran's affairs.

The folks at the Calgary Stampede are taking it Slow this year. As in Slow Food.

Here are some magical experiences in Europe that spiritual people would enjoy -- from conservative Catholics to Buddhists to tree-huggers to Methodists to curious European bus drivers who have never thought about this while on a tour before.

United Airlines has found a sure-fire way to stir the pot this summer. Its announcement last week that the airline will no longer allow some travel agencies to use its merchant account to book United products after July 20 has heaped coals on officials' heads.

It's that time of year again, when the sky explodes with Fourth of July fireworks, an exuberant visual celebration equaled only by New Year's Eve displays.

The lawyer for a detained Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran says his client has been charged with "acting against national security." Lawyer Abdolsamad Khorramshi says his client is being held in Evin prison and will in all likelihood stand trial soon.

A senior Obama administration official has told the BBC that Russia has agreed to let US troops bound for the war in Afghanistan fly through its airspace.

Eight British schoolchildren have been taken to hospital in Romania with swine flu.

The head of the Organization of American States says he has found no willingness in Honduras' interim government to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Some of the British Embassy's Iranian staff held in Tehran will be put on trial, ruling clerics have said.

For 18 months it has been throwing a bevy of light jabs at its ominous opposition, punching well above its weight and attempting to niggle at its foes. But today, Tiger Airways will land its first big blow – launching flights, with very low fares, between Melbourne and Sydney, the world's third busiest travel route...