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In a damning ruling, the court identified 'significant shortcomings' in the investigation. A BRIT holidaymaker has won a "landmark" legal ruling after Greek cops failed to properly investigate her rape claims.

A massive fire engulfed a water park in Gothenburg in Sweden on Monday (February 12). Flames at the Oceana waterpark damaged outdoor water slides and under construction facility. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries and death but Reuters cited police to report that one man was missing.

A Manhattan man has been indicted for allegedly attempting to steal the deed for the iconic New Yorker Hotel in Midtown. Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office charged Mickey Barreto, 48, with a yearslong conspiracy to transfer ownership of the hotel, known for its prominent red rooftop sign and sometimes called the “Grand Old Lady,” to himself.

This has caused another scandal in the alpine resort involving this group of guests. The Graubünden cantonal police have launched an investigation on suspicion of discrimination and incitement to hatred. The restaurant at the Pischa mountain station no longer rents out sledges, airboards, skis and snowshoes to Jewish guests. They are being informed of this in a letter in Hebrew posted on site and addressed disrespectfully as “our brothers”.

The Ghana Police Service is currently conducting an investigation into the mysterious death of Eric Johnson, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cossy Hill Hotel located in Jirapa, a town in the Upper West Region of Ghana.

A man has gone viral on social media after realising it is cheaper to live in a 5-star all-inclusive hotel than rent his city flat. Josh Kerr pays £950 a month for his apartment in Manchester but later found out it would cost him £938 to book an all-inclusive resort in Turkey for 28 nights, including flights. He then showed how he used On The Beach to find a deal for Xoria Deluxe Resort in Antalya.

A woman was found dead inside a hotel room in Manhattan, with an iron covered in blood found near her body.

AN ALABAMA HOTELIER, Pravin Raojibhai Patel, was shot and killed last week after a confrontation with a man asking for a room, according to the Sheffield, Alabama, Police Department. William Jeremy Moore, 34, was arrested in connection with the incident, which comes three years after a series of similar killings of Indian American Hotel owners.

A Bahamian resort has said two American women's allegations of drug-laced cocktails and sexual assaults "conflict" with its 16 "time-stamped surveillance videos.". Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson, lifelong friends from Kentucky, were enjoying a kid-free vacation when they stopped on Grand Bahama Island during a Carnival cruise.

Hotel prices in Baku during COP29 in trouble

Teams from Anti-Terrorism Cell and detection staff from the Colaba police station also rushed to the hotel. The security outside Taj hotel in Colaba was stepped up after the police control room on Thursday received a terror threat call. However, the cops later found the call to be hoax. The caller is yet to be traced.

Just over a year after acquiring a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, making them the only Black hotel owners in Memphis, power couple Norland and Dr. Amina James are set to do it again. This time the serial entrepreneurs and founders of Duke Ventures are leveling up to a stunning 120-room hotel set on the picturesque backdrop of the Louisiana Bayou. And they’re bringing a whole community with them.

Howard Dicus takes a look.

An Arby's general manager was found dead after being trapped inside the walk-in freezer. According to her family, Nguyet Le entered the freezer, and the door suddenly shut behind her. During this time, no one else was in the restaurant.

A R1.2-trillion Libyan sovereign wealth fund has launched a hostile takeover bid for one of SA’s premier hospitality groups, Legacy Hotels, following a bitter boardroom fallout, putting a multibillion-rand property portfolio at stake with implications for funders.

The Saskatchewan government says it’s changing how it procures hotels for those on social assistance after a motel owned by a legislature member raised rates when the province paid. The Saskatchewan Party government says in a letter that the province must now formally obtain quotes from three hotels before securing a room for a person or family.

Ariane Gorin will succeed Peter Kern as Expedia Group's CEO effective May 13. Kern has been CEO since 2020. "Ariane Gorin is a superb executive that all of us at Expedia Group and our board have worked with for 10 years," Expedia chair and senior executive Barry Diller said in a release. "We very much wanted an internal candidate to succeed to the CEO position, and following a comprehensive search, the board determined Ariane was the best candidate given her exemplary leadership."

Hotel Owner Murdered in Sheffield, USA

A Bahamas resort where two Kentucky mothers claim they were drugged and raped by two employees said that the women’s account of what happened does not match its security footage. Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson said they were assaulted in broad daylight by staffers at Pirate’s Cove while relaxing on the beach while their Carnival Cruise ship was docked on the Grand Island in the Bahamas.

A 60-year-old Swedish swim coach tragically lost his life on Sunday morning after falling from the third floor of a hotel on Pattaya Third Road. According to authorities, Pattaya police received a report of the incident at approximately 2:06 AM on February 4th. They rushed to the scene at an unidentified hotel on Pattaya Third Road, along with a rescue team from the Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan Foundation.

Two Rhodes men are jailed in connection with thefts from the vacant Days Inn at Valley Plaza early Friday morning, and Midland city officials are concerned about the possibility of more such thefts at the condemned former hotel.

Buffalo man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for holding up seven hotels and a store in an armed robbery spree, Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announced. Erie County Court Judge Suzanne Maxwell Barnes also ordered Abdi Kadir, 26, to receive five years of supervision after he is released. He pleaded guilty in September to nine counts of first-degree robbery and one count of first-degree burglary.

Businesses on West Eighth that are struggling in the explosion’s wake have complained of damage to windows, plumbing and other issues that they believe the hotel owner should be responsible for. Owned and operated by Canadian developer Northland Properties, the Sandman Signature Hotel, located at 810 Houston Street, was the site of a massive explosion that left 21 injured in early January.

LAS VEGAS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - President Joe Bidenmight join Las Vegas hotel employees on a picket line if they go on strike Monday, a move that would bind him closely with another group of workers in a 2024 electionbattleground state, the union's chief told Reuters. Workers with the politically influential Nevada Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and the Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino have until early Monday to reach an agreement.