CALGARY — For a new bear at the Calgary Zoo, sometimes black really is white. The zoo’s newest bruin in the Canadian Wilds habitat is a...
YANGON, Myanmar—Hilton Worldwide has signed a contract to operate five hotels in Myanmar, which is emerging as a popular Southeast Asian tourist destination after military rule was...
MANILA — Goodbye, long terminal fee queues. The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) on Wednesday said that starting October, passengers will no longer have to line...
LONDON — Roads snarled in London, Paris and several other major European cities Wednesday as taxi drivers and train workers protested new technology they say endangers...
CAIRO, Egypt—An Egyptian airport official says authorities have levied a new airport tax on tourists leaving the country, a move that has been criticized as being...
ATLANTA—Travellers, after years of complaints, will have access to a free wireless Internet network at the world’s busiest airport. Officials say the network at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta...
NEW ORLEANS—For months, 19-year-old Cpl. Roland Chaisson and his demolition squad had trained in England to invade Normandy. Twice a day they scrambled down rope ladders...
Travelling the world for storm, thunder, lightning and all the “extreme” nature obsessions? Lonely Planet says Canada (and its Northern Lights) is not the only place...
MANAUS, Brazil — Death by giant snakes, malarial mosquitoes or drug-addled, knife-wielding thieves: If the barrage of blood-soaked headlines in the British tabloids is to be...
BEIJING — China railways laid on extra trains to manage a record number of passengers on Monday, the last day of three days of the Dragon...