The trip of a lifetime turned into a nightmare for more than a dozen Tampa students. The Wharton High graduates were forced to fend for their lives in Cancun.
“The boat started to rock back and forth and the front of the boat started to lift out of the water.” says Wharton High graduate Matt Koehler.
He [...]
The U.N.’s most powerful body spent nine days visiting African hotspots trying to push solutions to the continent’s worst conflicts and get a taste of the hardships faced by millions of civilians caught in fighting.
For the U.N. Security Council diplomats who traveled from Kenya to Djibouti, where peace talks on Somalia were taking place, and [...]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday refused to back down over Iran’s nuclear programme, days ahead of a trip to Tehran by the EU foreign policy chief in search of a compromise in the crisis.
Iran will not trade its “dignity” in its nuclear programme, Ahmadinejad said, in an apparent refusal to consider the main demand of [...]
For almost two months, Sidney Crosby has trudged to a podium to talk to reporters at least once a day, twice on game days. But after the Pittsburgh Penguins were denied in their last-second bid to tie Game 6, losing 3-2 to the Detroit Red Wings, Crosby remained slumped in his dressing room stall.
That Crosby [...]
The Dynamo’s match on Wednesday against D.C. United was postponed, but the team continued their raod trip with a morning tour of the White House, met with President Bush and posed for a team picture in the Rose Garden.
“It was quite an experience,” defender Patrick Ianni said. “It’s always an honor to be able to [...]
Croatia face a perfect test away to in-form Hungary in their final Euro 2008 warm-up on Saturday, assistant manager Aljosa Asanovic said on Friday.
“The match is the final assessment of our abilities before the European championship and it will show how much progress we have made in training,” Asanovic told reporters in Croatia’s training base [...]
Ohio University failed to protect a student who had an epileptic seizure and fell face-first into a fire while on a wilderness trip, according to a lawsuit filed by the student’s parents.
The school is responsible for the severe burns to Christopher Mance’s face, arms and hands because officials knew about the student’s history of epilepsy [...]
The Express-Times has mapped a route for day-trippers looking for a meaningful Memorial Day road trip.
These stones hold few words, but stand in brief testament to brave men’s deeds. Others overwhelm with names, battles and all the details that link local communities to heroes made of ordinary men and women.
The full loop is about 180-miles, [...]
The campaign is not giving out many details yet, but Hillary Rodham Clinton will campaign in South Florida on Wednesday, her aides announced.
It will be her first trip to the Sunshine State in months and give her a chance to press her case for seating delegates based on the results of the contest in January.
With [...]
Living or travelling as a vegetarian is easy on the west coast of North America — which is where I’m used to doing it. But venture out of this well-defined comfort zone, and it gets a trifle less easy to manage.
The most challenging situation as a vegetarian is trying to explain — without the benefit [...]
