Travel
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Cuban dissidents cheer bill to end US travel banJun 12, 2010 11:00 pm - HAVANA -- Seventy-four Cuban opposition activists -- including the island's best-known blogger and a hunger striker who has garnered worldwide attention -- signed a lett...
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Downtown event? Stay over with special value packageJun 12, 2010 11:00 pm - Skip the 'A' train Take advantage of the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza's summer value dates with special rates and save the long schlep back home after one of the city'...
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Surgery not required to change gender on passportsJun 12, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Transgender travelers no longer will need surgery in order to change their stated genders on U.S. passports, the State Department said Wednesday. Beginning...
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Spain to reopen Caves of Altamira despite warningsJun 12, 2010 11:00 pm - MADRID -- A cave complex boasting prized prehistoric paintings will reopen after eight years of closure, despite scientists' warnings that heat and moisture from human v...
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New NYC hotel offers up-close views of ground zeroJun 12, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The rooms at the new World Center Hotel are about as close as you can get to ground zero without a hard hat. The 169-room hotel just south of the World Trade...
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A 'Situation' in Jersey shore becomes vacation destinationJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Over here is the bar where Snooki was decked by a sucker-punch to the face. Around the corner is the house with the most famous garage door in Am...
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Isolation of Rainbow Bridge a draw for visitorsJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - No road leads up to or over Rainbow Bridge, and no hands built it. The reddish sandstone of the Colorado Plateau instead was washed away by the forces...
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Thai tourism seeking recovery from protest turmoilJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - BANGKOK -- The Red Shirt anti-government protesters have gone home, but Thailand's tourism industry is still seeing red. Armed soldiers, smoky streets and looted stores ...
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Exploring Crete's Balos Beach and the castle beyondJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - It looked like a scene out of "Exodus" - if the Jews making their way to Palestine had been wearing bikinis and carrying beach umbrellas. The ship opened its creaky stee...
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'I Do? Chicago Ties the Knot' featured at Chicago History MuseumJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - It's June - wedding season - and even if you're not acquiring a partner or invited to a ceremony this year, get in a romantically curious mood at "I Do! Chicago Ties the...