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French strike leads protest of EU air travel plan
Air traffic controllers in France kicked off a series of strikes against a European plan to overhaul their industry, forcing the country's main airports to cut their flight timetables in half on Tuesday. The Civil Aviation Authority said some 1,800 flights were cancelled at Charles de Gaulle, Orly, Beauvais, Lyon, ...
Hitler's alpine retreat getting makeover
Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria is getting a makeover, with a 17-million euro ($22.5 million) renovation project that will enlarge the historical information center now there. The Bavarian government said Tuesday that building should begin in 2015. The daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports the 1,000 square meter (11,000 square foot) ...
World air fleet to double in 20 years, Boeing says
Boeing predicted that the number of commercial aircraft in operation globally will double in the next two decades, with the bulk of some 35,000 new planes going to Asia, an executive from the US airplane-maker said Tuesday. Speaking ahead of the Bourget international air show in Paris, Randy Tinseth, vice-president ...
Students learn Ind. history through tourism course
Fourth-graders in a Noblesville school are meeting the requirement to learn Indiana history by learning how to promote the state to tourists. The Indiana Office of Tourism Development has provided teachers at Promise Road Elementary School in Noblesville with a program called "Visit Indiana: 4th Grade Social Studies." The six-week ...
Canadian, nicknamed 'Black Widow,' pleads guilty
A Canadian woman nicknamed the "Black Widow" for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her pleaded guilty on Monday to drugging a man she married days earlier. Melissa Ann Shepard, 78, was charged last October after her latest husband, Fred Weeks, fell ill at a bed and breakfast ...
John Malkovich helps Ohio tourist hurt in Canada
A tourist from northwest Ohio says actor John Malkovich played a starring role in rescuing him when he fell and gashed his throat on scaffolding in Canada. Seventy-seven-year-old Jim Walpole of Defiance fell Thursday in Toronto while on a trans-Canadian trip. Walpole tells the Toronto Star that Malkovich, who was ...
Weird and sexy swimsuits through the years
Take a look at the unusual and trendy swimsuit fashion from the past.
France warns of mass disruption in airport strikes
France's main airports are asking airlines to cut their flight timetables in half ahead of three days of strikes by air traffic controllers that begin Tuesday in France and spread throughout Europe on Wednesday. The Airports of Paris on Monday warned of massive travel disruptions this week as air traffic ...
Hobbits and elves drawing tourists to New Zealand
Hobbits, elves and dragons appear to be luring tourists to New Zealand as fans await their first glimpse of the second movie in "The Hobbit" trilogy. Figures released this month by government agency Tourism New Zealand show that international vacations to the South Pacific nation rose 10 percent from January ...
Big kids build a timewaster for the little kids
There's a new exhibit heading to the Above & Beyond Children's Museum in downtown Sheboygan. In addition to composing a tune on the museum's Whompamaphone or acting like a ship captain in the Port of Sheboygan exhibit, children will soon be able to interact with a physics creation made by ...
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