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Smartphones can soon be used to 'e-hail' NYC taxis
Raising your arm and yelling "taxi!" will soon be the old-fashioned way to nab a New York City cab. Soon, all you'll need is a smartphone app.
American Airlines rolls out new fare structure
American Airlines is changing the way it charges you to fly. American will charge $68 or $88 more per round trip for economy-class passengers who want ...
Congress ends second bag checks on some flights
Passengers arriving in the U.S. from international airports who miss connecting flights because their checked bags have to be rescreened could get ...
Delta grabs bigger share of key NY-London route
Delta Air Lines is grabbing a bigger share of the world's most important travel route: New York to London. The airline is paying $360 million for ...
Diller steps aside at TripAdvisor; sells stake
Barry Diller is stepping down as chairman of TripAdvisor and selling his stake in the travel-website owner to Liberty Interactive. Liberty Interactive ...
Heavy snow keeps Balkans in deep freeze
Blizzards blocked roads, stranded villages, disrupted power supplies and temporarily shut down an airport in the Balkans on Tuesday, the fourth ...
Man strips at Austrian art exhibition of nude men
An Austrian museum says a man took the concept of life imitating art to an extreme when he suddenly stripped at an exhibition of pictures and ...
Van Gogh dazzles at Netherlands' Kroeller-Mueller
With the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closed for renovations until April, the world's second-largest collection of the tortured Dutch master's work ...
Bike, large truck deaths soar, bucking trend
Deaths of bicyclists and occupants of large trucks rose sharply last year even as total traffic fatalities dropped to their lowest level since 1949, ...
NY, NJ ponder new boardwalks without the boards
Coastal areas of New Jersey and New York that lost their boardwalks to Superstorm Sandy's surge are racing to rebuild them in time for tourist season ...
Police: Airport security officer killed in Ohio
A Transportation Security Administration officer was fatally shot by her husband Sunday before he killed himself on an off-site parking lot at ...
Obama maintains standing with Cuban-Americans
The door for travel to Cuba cracked open during President Barack Obama's first term. Cuban-Americans can now visit family on the island as often as ...
Spain's luxury Parador hotels hit by 2-day strike
Employees at Spain's luxury Parador hotels, which are set in some of the country's most picturesque castles, monasteries and palaces, began a two-day ...
Coffee from an elephant's gut fills a $50 cup
In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is excreting some of the world's most expensive coffee. Trumpeted as earthy in flavor ...
Alaska reclaims missing moon rocks since 1973
A display of moon rocks that disappeared from an Alaska museum after an arson fire nearly four decades ago has been returned to the state following ...
Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify unknown dead
Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater.
Illegal immigration drops after decade-long rise
New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases. The number of ...
Senate GOP fails to bring up immigration bill
Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked Republicans from bringing up an immigration bill offering permanent residence visas for foreigners with advanced ...
Grizzly managers look toward hunts in Rockies
With bear-human conflicts on the rise, wildlife managers in the Northern Rockies are laying the groundwork for trophy hunts for grizzlies in ...
Ex-Penn St. president seeks looser bail for travel
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier wants looser bail rules so he can travel outside Pennsylvania and overseas for family and professional ...
Obama's 2nd inaugural seems almost an afterthought
Four years ago, Barack Obama's swearing-in drew a record crowd to the National Mall. There were 1.8 million people eager to witness history: the ...
Louvre comes to poor French city, raising eyebrows
The Louvre has embarked on an ambitious quest — opening a €150 million ($196 million) extension in an abandoned coal mining town in northern France ...
Study: Lion ranges, populations dropping in Africa
The lions that roam Africa's savannahs have lost as much as 75 percent of their habitat in the last 50 years as humans overtake their land and the ...
Delta Air eyes bigger slice of NY-London travel
The skies between London and New York are full of business travelers, and Delta Air Lines wants more of them. Delta is looking into buying a big stake ...
Report finds Broadway addicted to tourists
Broadway producers got a reminder of how important tourists and the Internet are to their bottom line with the release of a new report about the ...