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US proposes 'musical instrument passports'
Musicians, take note: Next time you travel abroad, you might need a passport — for your instrument. Delegates attending a global biodiversity ...
White House tours off, Easter egg roll on for now
The White House says it is going forward with plans for its 135-year tradition of the Easter egg roll, while dashing the hopes of some Iowa children ...
Jewell pledges balanced approach on energy
President Barack Obama's nominee for interior secretary pledged Thursday to take a balanced approach to energy that would expand and diversify ...
Flight attendants protest new policy on knives
The vice president of a flight attendants union says a new policy that would allow airline passengers to carry small knives is "outrageous." Sara ...
Indonesian volcano spews ash into sky; no one hurt
Indonesia scientists say they are closely monitoring a smoking volcano on Java island, urging villagers and tourists to stay off the mountain's slope.
Boehner: Capitol tours to go on under budget cuts
If your public tour of the White House has now been canceled, House Speaker John Boehner says come visit the Capitol instead. Boehner says tours of ...
George Lucas proposes museum in San Francisco
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas wants to build a museum dedicated to visual storytelling in San Francisco's Presidio that would house an art ...
Thomas Cook considers 2,500 job cuts
Vacation tour operator Thomas Cook says it is considering cutting about a fifth of its workforce as it enters the next phase of a three-year program ...
TSA to allow small knives, bats, clubs on planes
Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning next month ...
Glaxo donates NC Wyeth painting to Philly museum
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC has donated a painting with a mysterious past to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work by N.C. Wyeth was ...
Stuttgart museum returns painting sold under Nazis
A Stuttgart museum has returned a 600-year-old painting to the estate of Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who was forced to sell his collection before ...
787 delays force Thomson Airways to change plans
Thomson Airways passengers expecting to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on holiday trips in May and June will be put on other aircraft because of ...
Quaint Finnish homes in Warsaw face destruction
Nearby the big city rumbles, but one feels almost transported to a quiet forest village when standing amid a colony of Finnish wooden houses in ...
Asian firm buys site of stalled Vegas Strip casino
Panda habitats, tea gardens and red pagodas have never been part of the visual vocabulary of the Las Vegas Strip. But Sin City is about to get all ...
Gov't: Budget cuts already causing airport delays
U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O'Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays in customs waiting lines as ...
Column: Our complex politics' short-hand problem
From an early age, Americans are conditioned to see the world in sharp lines — black-and-white labels in a society where the reality is many shades ...
Spain's Iberia cancels flights as strikes resume
Spanish airline Iberia says some 1,300 flights will be canceled this week as workers begin a second round of strikes to protest the loss-making ...
How budget cuts could affect you
Automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday are expected to touch a vast range of government services. Some examples: DEFENSE One of the ...
FAA chief: Spending cuts could close runways
The government has no choice but to furlough air traffic controllers in the event of automatic spending cuts, raising the specter of widespread flight ...
Syrian army clashes with rebels around Aleppo
Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes on rebels trying to storm a police academy outside Aleppo on Wednesday, activists said, while jihadi fighters ...
EU blocks Ryanair bid to buy Ireland's Aer Lingus
The European Union's antitrust authority on Wednesday blocked Ryanair's renewed bid to take over rival Irish carrier Aer Lingus, ruling that it would ...
Rock Hall of Fame to open Rolling Stones exhibit
The story of The Rolling Stones is so huge it takes 2½ floors of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to tell. The Cleveland-based museum will ...
Billionaire launches plans for Titanic replica
What could possibly go wrong? An Australian billionaire is getting ready to build a new version of the Titanic that could set sail in late 2016.
Bipartisan agreement on need for more farm workers
Republicans and Democrats said Tuesday that farmers should be allowed to hire foreign workers more easily as Congress reworks U.S. immigration laws.
SPIN METER: A dubious list of budget 'horribles'
President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the ...