They're accused of sneaking into the site illegally and damaging a stone wall in the Temple of the Sun, the Ministry of Culture said. Fecal matter was also found at the site.

The high water that devastated Venice this month flooded streets, squares and landmark churches. Tourists are still welcomed, but advised to bring waders.

Venice is to introduce a tax on tourists from next summer, the city’s authorities have announced. “We’re not in it to make money," says Venice's mayor.

Thomas Cook’s disastrous £2.7bn merger with Mytravel looks instead like an exercise in lucrative corporate hubris .

Travellers will soon be sent home, but hotels and tourism service providers are left out of pocket.

"It feels great to have abandoned a prejudice against a wh*le people so late in life without even trying – just because of four days in Berlin."

"Do I regret paying to watch this series of assassinations? No – I wanted to be able to comment from a position of knowledge. Would I do so again? No, never."