Rice paddies to mega resorts: declassified spy satellite images reveal Bali’s transformation

found 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 07:15 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Extent of decades of development is laid bare as Indonesia wrestles with how to control development on the holiday island

“I wonder what Bali used to be like?” is a common refrain heard on Indonesia’s…

Weatherwatch: Cyclone Zelia brings 130mph winds to north-west Australia

found 2025 › Feb › 17 (Mon) @ 13:34 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Tropical cyclone first to make landfall this year, while a winter storm causes extreme cold across north-eastern US

Cyclone Zelia became the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in 2025, hitting no…

Bali bombings hero Erik de Haart, 67, dies suddenly after he saved countless lives in 2002 terrorist attack which killed 88 Aussies

found 2025 › Feb › 17 (Mon) @ 07:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Erik de Haart was in Kuta with the Coogee Dolphins rugby league team at the time of the terror attacks and pulled so many wounded victims from the wreckage he lost count.

Wild moment Aussie tourists trade blows with security in massive brawl at world famous beach club in Bali

found 2025 › Feb › 12 (Wed) @ 18:18 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Police in Bali have launched a manhunt for a group of foreign tourists, including at least one Australian, following a wild melee with security guards at a ritzy beach club

Brit is stranded in Bali with deadly 'brain-swelling' disease a week after travel insurance expired - leaving family with £50,000 bill to get him home

found 2025 › Feb › 12 (Wed) @ 18:18 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Andrew Court was visiting his pal Zeke Scott in Bali ahead of starting a new job when he fell ill with a fever and started being sick last month.

Moment British couple facing decades in jail for 'smuggling cocaine into Bali disguised as Angel Delight' are forced to make perp walks

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 13:57 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Lisa Stocker, 39, from Gillingham, Kent, and Jon Collyer, 37, were reportedly caught carrying packs of the hard drug through the I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, on February 1.

Why a Sydney socialite was forced to hire a private investigator after her model son was found face-down in a pool at a luxury villa in Bali

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 07:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Interior designer and glamorous socialite Amanda Lennon is still trying to piece together the series of events that resulted in her son's tragic death in Bali last year.

Lara Lee’s recipe for ikan bakar, or Balinese-style baked fish

found 2025 › Jan › 25 (Sat) @ 22:33 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Firm white fish baked in a gingery garlic marinade

How I love this dish, which is inspired by the wood-fire grilled and marinated fish from the shores of Bali. In this version, the fish is oven-baked,…

Violence erupts in streets of Bali as police boot foreign troublemakers from notorious expat village Parq Ubud

found 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 09:06 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Fierce clashes broke out in the street of Bali's hedonistic hotspot of Ubud after police shuttered a notorious resort that caters to Russian expats.

Indonesia mulls repatriation of alleged Bali bombings mastermind from Guantánamo Bay

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 07:44 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, has been held since 2003 and described as ‘one of the world’s most lethal terrorists’

Indonesia is exploring ways to repatriate a Guantánamo Bay detainee accused of…