China To Build World's Fastest Rail LinkBEIJING: China plans to build the world's fastest rail line linking its capital Beijing with financial capital Shanghai, which will cut the journey time to four hours as compared to current 10-12 hours. New technology will enable trains to travel at 380 km an hour to cover 1,318-km stretch between the two important cities, 30 km per hour more than the current generation of bullet trains. Previously these trains had been planned to run at 350 kilometres an hour, a state media reported today. "The quickest trains can currently travel between Beijing and Shanghai is 10 hours. It is p...
We Leave Tomorrow @9:05 A.m. But...I am so excited!!!!!!!Disney World...YAY!!!However;-(I booked this holiday with Bounceback in February.Got the blue envelope in the mail and noticed they had my name wrong for the air. They used my married name, my id is in my maiden name. I called Disney travel and they stated it was my error...
The Science Behind Santaâs MagicEver wondered how Santa Claus can travel around the world in just one night on his reindeer-pulled sleigh and deliver toys to all the children?
Solar Car Completes 1st Ever Round-the-world TripThe first solar-powered car to travel around the world ended its journey at the U.N. climate talks Thursday, arriving with the message that clean technologies are available now to stop global warming.
Travel Picks: World's Scariest RoadsLocals give them names such as the ''Road of Death'' and the ''Road of Bones'' -- streets where just one small miscalculation can lead to disaster. Travel Web site Travel + Leisure (http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/wor...
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Solar Car Completes 1st Round-the-world TripThe first solar-powered car to travel around the world ended its journey at the U.N. climate talks Thursday, arriving with the message that clean technologies are available now to stop global warming.
2009 Airstream Interstate 3500 Makes World DebutThe core elements of the Airstream experience - refined by nearly eight decades of travel and exploration around the globe – are simple: thirst for adventure, a yearning to explore the open road, th...
Feeling Sick? Travel Abroad For TreatmentSandra Giustina is just one of millions around the world journeying outside their native lands for medical treatment. Experts say the trend in global health care has just begun. Next year alone, an estimated 6 million Americans will travel abroad for surgery, according to one study. "I was able to fix my heart and tour India," said Giustina, an uninsured 61-year-old.
90,000 Stranded By Tour Company CollapseTHE collapse of British travel giant XL spells trouble for cheap package holidays across the world. A huge airlift is under way to take home almost 90,000 people stranded abroad after Britain's thir...
The Stylish Way To Travel (Manila Standard Today)When Samsonite was founded in 1910, travel was reserved for only the exclusive few who had the means to see the world. Then, travel was a high quality, extraordinary experienceâfrom the mode of transportation and attention to service, to the most exquisite accessories used to carry oneâs belongings.
Africa: An Aids-Free World Travel Diary - On The Road To A New UN Agency For WomenIn September of this year, UN member states passed a resolution to move swiftly to create a new UN agency for women, a move, packaged with a series of reforms on governance and funding, that they hope will result in renewed public faith in the UN system. Julia Greenberg, AIDS-Free World's associate director, tells the inside story behind the sudden groundswell in support for the new women's agency and why the global community of women living with, and affected by HIV/AIDS, should care.
Briton Relies On Twitter To Travel WorldA British blogger is trying to travel as far around the world as possible in 30 days, relying only on the goodwill of people using social networking site Twitter.
Harvey World Insists It's Safe (The Australian)THE Harvey World Travel chain says it would have no exposure to any financial troubles of its parent Stella tourism empire, which is understood to have bled hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year.
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