Three American hikers who have been detained in Iran since they crossed into the country from Iraq in July have been accused of espionage, the first signal that Tehran intends to send the matter to trial, Fox News reports.
Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, entered the Islamic Republic while hiking along the unmarked border in the scenic mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, a peaceful region that is becoming popular among Western tourists. …

London Mayor Boris Johnson is to make an unprecedented tour of New York in an attempt to lure Americans to London as tourists and encourage foreign investment, Evening Standard reports.
Johnson, who was born in New York, returns to the city to champion the English capital and conduct a series of high-profile meetings. His itinerary will see him attending and speaking at a series of financial meetings, hosting creative industry events at the height of New York …

Russians have been named the worst tourists in the world, with voters claiming they are tracksuit-wearing, greedy, money-flashing oafs, who hide sunloungers in their hotel rooms, the Daily Mail reports.
German tourists, previously the subject of many jocular complaints about hogging sunloungers at the crack of dawn, were knocked into second place by the newly-rich Russians.
The “world’s worst holiday-maker” poll surveyed more than 1,000 British tourists who went on holiday abroad this summer.
According to the Britons …

According to a study by the global hotel industry, French people are the world’s worst tourists, AFP reports.
TNS Infratest asked 40,000 hotels worldwide to rank tourists from 27 countries based on nine criteria, from their politeness to their willingness to tip.
Clean and tidy, polite, quiet and uncomplaining, Japanese tourists came top of the crop for the third year running. Britons came second for their overall behaviour, politeness, quietness and even elegance — second for dress sense …