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Picture: Reuters. Drink 'driving' - yes, it happens to pilots too. Concerned security staff at Heathrow Airport informed police, after noticing a drunk Captain Joseph Crites, board an American Airlines, scheduled to fly from London to Chicago.   Police subsequently intercepted Mr Crites ...

The next annular solar eclipse happens on 15 January 2010, and Myanmar is one of the best places to view this phenomenal event.   Extracted from the NASA site: "The path of the eclipse begins in Africa and passes through Chad, Central African Republic, ...

Seeking to get away from the discrimination from 'normal' sized people, a community of dwarves have set up their own village in the mountains of Kunming, complete with a police force and fire brigade. The requirement for living in the ...

For the month of October, an open air exhibition will be held at the Champs Elysées, featuring 90 years of Vogue covers. You'll be able to see the work by prominent photographers such as Salvador Dali, Joan Miró, Helmut Newton, Andy ...

An AeroMexico plane originating from the resort city of Cancun was seized mid-flight yesterday by hijackers demanding to speak to President Felipe Calderon. The drama was shortlived as pilots managed to land the plane in the mexican capital, with the hijackers ...

In a revolutionary new move, KV Tours and Travels - a travel company based in the western city of Mumbai in India has come up with divorce tourism packages, which are aimed at getting couples who have fallen out of ...

Picture: Charlie Brewer / news.com.au. It's the 25th anniversary of the Variety New South Wales Bash, and more than a hundred vehicles will be pulling into Broken Hill, after spending the last 10 days travelling cross country, starting from the Sydney Opera ...

Barbados is so confident of the island's perfect weather conditions, that they're now putting down a "money-back" guarantee. As long as the average daily temperature dips below 78 degrees, and daily rainfall exceeds a quarter of an inch, and you'll ...

Unwilling to let her dog travel with the rest of the cargo, one Israeli woman paid US$32,000 to book the entire business class on a flight from Paris to Tel Aviv. The entourage consisted of the 60-year-old woman, Rivkah, her ...

An Italian thief was saved by cops after a very unfortunate targetting of tourists near the Theatre of Marcellus, in Rome's historic centre. Apparently the thief stole a handbag from a Korean family when they were not paying attention, even brandishing a ...