Hear how people are making changes to their lifestyle to adapt to the current economic trend.

There has been a sharp increase in swine flu cases in the UK. How worried are people about this disease?

Boy bands are making a comeback in Britain, and Westlife is one of them. But do teenagers like their music?

Love, sadness and jealousy are all common emotions. Find out a lot more from this week's quiz.

How are you feeling? Test your knowledge of negative feelings and emotions in this week's quiz.

How are you feeling? Test your knowledge of emotional phrases and idioms in the English language.

Have you ever dreamed about being a famous basketball player? Well why not try this week's sporting quiz.

Snooker is a great sport to watch on TV and this quiz will help spectators with some of its jargon.

Football is loved by millions all over the world. Learn more about this wonderful sport in this quiz.

Would you like to go to a greasy spoon? Diarmuid and Feifei teach this week's Authentic Real English phrase.

Do you drop things? Do you fall over a lot? Do you make embarrassing remarks? This programme is for you!

Oh no, I'm skint again! Today's Authentic Real English word is especially useful in the week before pay-day.

Sometimes you can create a new word by combining two existing words. Can you work out what 'smirting' means?

They may be uncomfortable but they are the height of fashion right now. Stay trendy with Authentic Real English.

Take Away English asks if Andrew Murray has what it takes to be the next Wimbledon champion.

How good are you at writing speeches? Take Away English discusses useful speechwriting techniques.

Take Away English reports on the total solar eclipse? Did you witness this extremely rare event?

Do you think you could make your living from magic like Harry Potter? Why not become a professional witch?

A very special concert last week revealed a lot about the development of possibly the greatest ever composer.

Have fun and learn new words with the BBC Wordmaster game.

Start learning English today with our beginners' course.

How lazy are British people? This week's Take Away English looks at a survey on the subject.

Here is an interesting interview of Thomas Owadenko that Loic Le Meur just uploaded on his blog. Thomas is the CEO of the new travel 2.0 site called Trivop. [vpod.tv loiclemeur/200710] Trivop.com is a very good example of a good use of web 2.0 in the travel industry. It is a platform of video reviews of hotels [...]

500 RSS Subscribers: I am pretty happy to announce that Blog on travel finally passed the psychological barrier of 500 subscribers to its RSS feed today (via feedburner). It has been quite a long way to achieve this, you can see this in the graph below that shows the RSS Subscribers of this blog from the [...]

We are now quite familiar with customer-written hotel reviews; we also know about the trendy use of video reviews of hotels but what about reviews of flights?! Yesterday I stumbled upon an incredible amateur video that made it to the top #20 of the most watched video of Youtube. The statistics speak for themselves: Views: 76,062 Comments: 468 Favorited: [...]

Two days ago Mario Hidalgo, CEO of the Spanish airline “Hola Airlines“ , announced that Hola Airlines (Baleares Link Express SL) has been obliged by the US government to stop its operations in Cuba . The US Government threatened Hola Airlines via Boeing to end the service of maintenance of the Boeing aircraft belonging to the [...]

Surprisingly the Spanish online travel market is not saturated by the emergence of aggregation and comparison engines; there is still space for newcomer(s) to enter this segment of the online travel industry. That’s what Minube.com (that literally means “My Cloud” in Spanish) did today by launching this new flight/hotel aggregator “Minube”. Minube.com referred itself as being [...]

You can have a sneak preview at the new Tripadvisor site by browsing this “beta” microsite that TA globally announced today in its newsletter. The user-generated reviews’ giant Tripavisor (part of the Expedia, Inc. family of travel companies), decided to “create a new and easier to use” site. Kristen Nicole from Mashable previously published an article [...]

Wandering around the internet, I was searching for 2 different things at the same time: a hotel for a romantic weekend getaway (with our lovely dog!) and a new apartment to rent. I suddenly asked myself: “Why not renting a vacation home instead of booking the usual same type of hotels (those few hotels that [...]

I have been among the lucky ones who were invited to test Netvibes ‘ new version called Netvibes Ginger Beta (the RSS feed reader). I am an early adopter of Netvibes, and I think it’s the best RSS readers available; I have enjoyed a lot the new features Ginger Beta has added and apparently I [...]

Those who want to add this Chatback feature to their own blog (or website!), need to register to Google Talk and then they need to create a Google Talk chatback badge. Copy the script and paste it to the page of your choice. You're done. Enjoy.

Today I read a great post on Travelrants called Ten things that annoy me about booking holidays online. Darren made a list of 10 things that annoy him while booking holidays online. It’s clearly the kind of feedback/information people that work for Online Travel Agencies or Hotel Portals would love to gather from their visitors. That’s [...]

LaVall Jordan on transfers: 'We'd rather have nobody than the wrong guy.'

How the beloved bulldog would've been at the center of a national championship celebration; well, he got a pet from Peyton Manning in the deal

Butler basketball's Willie Veasley is back in Horizon League as new UIC assistant coach

The Bulldogs reached the title game with a 52-50 victory over Michigan State

Butler basketball: IndyStar Insider David Woods recalls his thoughts during the bulldog's 2010 Final Four run.

Two appearances in the Final Four transformed Butler

Where the players and coaches of 2019 Butler Final Four team are

Butler basketball's 2010 run to the final four was magical

Butler Bulldogs take Duke to the limit in the 2010 national championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium, capped but a famous missed shot

Butler Bulldogs is a finalist for some prominent college basketball transfers after missing out on a guard.

The Bulldogs missed out Saturday on a couple of transfers: Louisiana-Monroe's Michael Ertel to UAB and Santa Clara's Trey Wertz to Notre Dame.

Butler has been active in the transfer market this offseason, but had come up empty — until Friday.

Bolden averaged 8.5 points in 21 minutes a game for South Carolina, starting 15 of 30 games.

Butler, previously announced as part of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational, will be joined in the eight-team field by Notre Dame.

Schilling — otherwise known as "Big Ed" or "Big Chill" — died Thursday at Witham Hospital in Lebanon. He was 75.