I am myself a great fan of traveling. I enjoy visiting beautiful places and collecting those cherished memories in my heart. Given a chance I would love to travel every...

President Chávez came to power promising to harness Venezuela’s vast oil resources to create a 21st-century nation in which no one was deprived. Now, with water and...

Having ancestral roots in Springfield, Vermont, I am partial to scenes of autumn in the Green Mountain State. In fact, it is hard to beat the New England countryside...

Why the stance of the government is so rigid in not trying to re-open the old airport. They can make both the airports functional. Starting all domestic air flights...

Oasis in Osoyoos By : Rajbir Deswal & Chander Koumdi The Cascades, a mountain range east of the water body of Puget Sound was in sight with its lofty peaks. The...

Today is the last day of October 2009. As we welcome November, many Americans’ thoughts will turn to football, Thanksgiving, pumpkin pie, and even Christmas...

James Christian remembers the night a few years ago when he and his wife took a Scottish travel agent camping on their land in Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau. As they...

If you get money, the world is a big place for you, and less demanding. This comes true for businessmen as Pakistan and Turkey signed an agreement on Monday, October...

After several months of rough travel from Hangu to Kohat/Peshawar and back, through the hilly and mostly unmetalled alternate road of Sumario, the passengers traveling...

Economic reform arrived at Mexico’s electrical utility on Saturday night wearing black body armor, crash helmets and ski masks. Flabbergasted workers arriving for...

Al-Qaida is losing its influence because of a shortage of funds, while the Taliban is thriving on the proceeds of criminal activities, according to analysis by the US...

As he assesses a request from his top commander in Afghanistan to dispatch another 40,000 troops to fight the Taliban, he is also “inclined” to send only as...

Six months after declaring the six-party talks on the future of its nuclear weapons programme “dead”, North Korea relented somewhat yesterday, suggesting...

At London’s Tate Modern art gallery, a spotlight shines on a blank space where a photograph of a nude Brooke Shields, age 10, was supposed to hang. A sign warns,...

Geologists in southern India say they have found hundreds of dinosaur egg clusters which could be about 65 million years old. It was a chance find discovered when a...

In the best traditions of “Wolf Creek”, a movie inspired with unsolved criminal mystery of the sixties, a Northern Territory tourist destination once again...

Sudanese women who escaped the Darfur conflict to eastern Chad are facing high levels of sexual violence, an Amnesty International report says. Despite the presence of...

At least 58 people were killed when Guinean security forces fired into the crowd at an opposition rally at a football stadium yesterday, according to a human rights...

New Orleans, Louisiana thrives on tourism related industries. Swamp and Plantation tours, night clubs, restaurants, coffee shops, trinket stores, Native American and...

A collision between two goods-carrying trains near the Kotri Railway Crossing (Sindh) resulted in a major railway traffic jam on Thursday, September 10, 2009. The...