Places to visit 2012 The Star | Made your travel plans for 2012 yet? Here are 10 places you might want to consider. | In its new book Best in Travel 2012, Lonely Planet nominates its Top 10 countries, regions and cities for 2012. Similar lists are put together by National Geographic Traveler, Frommer's Budget Travel and The New ...
Container lines like Maersk steam slower to restore profit The Times Of India COPENHAGEN: Container ships can't go any slower. Shipping lines are running out of options to stop losses as sailing speeds reach their lower limit, exhausting a solution that helped restore profitability in 2010. | The global container fleet is now ...
Goteborg to welcome record numbers of industry attendees for Nordic Film Market Screen Daily | Festival to screen 429 films; industry highlights include works in progress screenings, such as Jan Troell’s Truth and Consequence [pictured[. | Even with Berlin looming the following week, the Göteborg International Film Festival has registered...
Travel insurance: How to get the cheapest quotes and best cover The Daily Mail | Each year holidays are ruined by illness or robbery or even the sudden need to return home because someone else is ill. | There's no legal requirement for you to have insurance when you travel abroad but if you find yourself in a situation like tha...
Obama hails US raid to free captives in Somalia Business Day | US SPECIAL forces swooped into Somalia yesterday and rescued an American and a Dane after killing their nine kidnappers in a rare raid into the Horn of Africa nation to free foreign captives. | American, Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted...
Denmark: Where to stay in Copenhagen NZ Herald | IBSENS HOTEL | First impressions of Ibsens Hotel were mixed. After a long train journey, we arrived expecting to find a newly refurbished hotel. However, the facade was still tattered, complete with its name in bawdy red neon lights, recalling the ...
Yes, captains do go down with the ship! Independent online Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship. But is it realistic to expect skippers to suppress their survival instinct amid the horror of a maritime disaster? To ask them to stare down death from the bridge, as ...
West displays Gulf military power to defiant Iran Ohio | TEHRAN, IRAN: Military power near the strategic Strait of Hormuz could be bolstered by additional British forces, the country’s defense secretary said Tuesday, as a defiant Iran shrugged off Europe’s oil embargo and moved ahead with pla...
Apple boosts Aust stocks Sydney Morning Herald | AAP | Australian shares climb after market-beating results from Apple helped bourses shrug off growing concerns that Greece may default on its debt. | European and Wall Street fell overnight after eurozone officials rejected a final offer from the Greece's private bondholders, taking it one step closer to a chaotic default, and after the Internat...
Haditha outraged as Marine avoids jail in massacre San Francisco Chronicle | Haditha, Iraq -- | In this town which saw 24 unarmed civilians die in a U.S. raid seven years ago, residents expressed disbelief and sadness that the Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time. | They were outraged both at the American military justice system and at...
