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Filed under: News A not-too-clever American tourist had a near-death experience clinging to the outside of The Ghan recently. That’s the train that steams up the...
made popular Jun 18 2009
AP, San Juan
Authorities have presented enough evidence to try a man accused of raping and killing a pregnant U.S. tourist, a judge ruled Thursday.
made popular Mar 19 2009
AP, San Juan
A judge in Puerto Rico has found a man guilty of murdering a tourist from California during a 2008 bar fight.
made popular Mar 14 2009
AP, Ruskin
Florida authorities believe they have found the remains of a 75-year-old tourist from England who disappeared from a relative’s home this week in the Tampa area.
made popular Mar 13 2009
AP, Star City
A U.S. billionaire who is making his second flight to the international space station said Thursday he was not worried about the debris that last month’s...
made popular Mar 5 2009
AP, Cairo
Egyptian media report that police have arrested an Egyptian who attacked an American teacher in the same Cairo tourist site where a bomb killed a French teenager a week...
made popular Feb 28 2009
AP, San Juan
Puerto Rico police are investigating whether a man accused of murdering a pregnant U.S. tourist this month may have killed two children nearly two decades ago,...
made popular Feb 25 2009
AP, Savannah
A pregnant tourist who was abducted and killed while jogging in Puerto Rico was a fearless explorer of the islands she visited during work trips with her yacht-captain...
made popular Feb 6 2009
AP, San Juan
A pregnant American tourist was killed Wednesday after she was abducted during a morning jog. Stuffed into the trunk of a car, she made a desperate call for help. About...
made popular Feb 4 2009
The Mexican government has announced a major new tourism development that will stretch along the Pacific Ocean coast of southern Sinaloa – a project that will...
made popular Oct 14 2008
AP, Honolulu
Two sisters-in-law were struck by large waves on the Kauai shore and were pulled out to sea, and a snorkeler also died over the weekend as high surf hit Hawaii.
made popular Oct 14 2008
AP, Vienna
A Virginia space company says a software billionaire plans to become the first private traveler to make a second trip to space
made popular Sep 30 2008
AP, Star City
As a computer game designer, he’s made millions creating fantasy worlds. Now, Richard Garriott will live out his own fantasy of spaceflight. Garriott, 47, will...
made popular Sep 23 2008
AP, Galveston
Shrimpers and oystermen are dredging their boats from the muck. Tourist areas on the coast that should be bustling at the start of convention season are flattened....
made popular Sep 19 2008
AP, Bangkok
Singapore and South Korea advised their citizens Tuesday against traveling to Thailand, raising concerns that the ongoing political crisis could damage the...
made popular Sep 2 2008
AP, Seoul
The head of a South Korean company running sightseeing programs to North Korea resigned Thursday over the shooting death of a tourist at a mountain resort in the...
made popular Aug 28 2008
If ticket sales are anything to go by, the luminous 17th century Taj Mahal in Agra is the most popular monument in India, attracting over 2.5 million visitors a year
made popular Aug 25 2008
AP, Guatemala City
A Guatemalan prosecutor says two brothers have been detained in the murder of an American tourist last weekend.
made popular Aug 15 2008
AP, Guatemala City
A Guatemalan prosecutor says two brothers have been detained in the murder of an American tourist last weekend.
made popular Aug 15 2008
AP, Morales
Nancy Dryden had hoped to use her experience as a physical therapist to help Guatemala’s children. But after four machete-wielding men killed her 66-year-old...
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