Road trips allow us to mope, celebrate, ponder and even spend a few hours not thinking about anything, save for a nondescript succession of signs and lines. But all of that takes time, and time on the road takes gas money. For those in search of catharsis on a budget, Stephen Thompson has compiled a [...]
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama began a two-day Virginia campaign swing Tuesday in a community with the state’s highest unemployment rate, telling a Martinsville audience that he will take aggressive steps to improve the plight of economically-distressed communities that are reeling from plant closings and layoffs.
“I’m not saying that every job is going to come [...]
Mr Iemma has arrived in Hong Kong where he will give the keynote address at a business lunch later today.
The Premier has been joined by representatives from 33 companies and nine universities, who will accompany him to a series of meetings in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing during his 10 day visit.
Mr Iemma says [...]
The group were travelling by coach from their hotel in Chengdu to Wolong reserve for wild pandas on Monday when the earthquake struck. Another 31 British tourists who were caught in the zone have been located, according to the Chinese Government.
David and Diane Atkins, a retired couple from Portchester, Hampshire, are among those still missing. [...]
About a dozen top New York City officials and staff members, including Speaker Christine C. Quinn of the City Council and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, are landing this week for a government-sponsored investment conference.
The trip comes at a politically delicate time for Ms. Quinn, a likely mayoral candidate who is trying to maintain her good-government [...]
Twenty West Texas A & M University students who recently traveled to Poland will share their travel experiences at a public forum on Monday.
The event is scheduled for 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Branding Iron Theatre in WT’s Sybil B. Harringon Fine Arts Complex. It is free and open to the public.
The students, all [...]
It was raining the day Tasha embarked with her best friend, Portia McPhail, and other Elim Christian College pupils for an adventure she was not exactly keen on, having had her share of thrills and spills.
Her father, Andy Bray, asked how she felt to be going canyoning in such weather on Tuesday. She said her [...]
However, she does not believe the tragedy should stop young people undertaking supervised adventure activities.
A helicopter this morning retrieved the last two bodies from the banks of Mangatepopo River, after a school canyoning trip took a fatal turn.
Six students and a teacher from the co-educational Elim Christian College, in east Auckland, died [...]
His picture hangs in the Sherpa museum, above the terraced village of Namche Bazaar, and almost everyone in the Solu-Khumbu valley knows who he is. He is stopped often, sometimes by people just wanting to shake his hand. A Western climber we meet on the trail stops to hug him. She tells us confidently, You [...]
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian capsule carrying two cosmonauts and Korea’s first astronaut blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, en route to the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the evening skies over Kazakhstan’s barren steppes before turning down range and entering its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes [...]
