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  • Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland

    A flight from Melbourne to Qatar was diverted to India on Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to save an Irish man on board. The man, Raymond McMorrow, 68, is believed to have had a heart attack on board Qatar Airways flight QR 031 while in transit from Melbourne to Doha, the Qatar capital. The Qatar Airways plane landed without incident at Cochin Airport, in southern India, where an ...

  • New frontiers new risks How safe is space tourism

    When choosing between two evils, Mae West quipped that she always picked the one she’d never tried before. Had the actress been ovulating at the time, however, a new study suggests she’d ...

  • Cableway to lift tourism says alliance

    THE president of the new Gold Coast and Hinterland Business Alliance believes Mount Tamborine has the edge over Springbrook in the cableway stakes.Bob Janssen said his alliance supported a cableway to the Hinterland and he said Mount Tamborine had the advantage because it already had extensive infrastructure."It has Gallery Walk, a lot of retail stores, other attractions and it is already ...

  • Middle East instability means tourism growth for Oman

    This year, hotels in Muscat have witnessed the strongest growth in revenue per available room (RevPAR), STR Global said in a statement. Regional instability has caused revenues in the Omani capital's tourism industry to grow by more than 15 per cent in the first four months of 2013, according to data released by STR Global. "Due to various reasons, tourists do not prefer Egypt and ...

  • Group discusses safety of space tourism

    The spacecraft SpaceShipTwo, center, carried by cargo aircraft WhiteKnightTwo, circles over Spaceport America Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 in Upham, N.M. Space-industry watchers expressed concern this week that the emerging space tourism sector is not being candid enough about the safety risks for travellers. (AP Photo/Matt ...


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The Strangers

The Strangers

Bryan Bertinos feature film debut The Strangers is nothing if not absolutely ruthless in its intensity and single-minded in its purpose. With only a modicum of conventional narrative set-up, it goes about drilling a direct passage into your nervous system, hammering away with a ha ... ...

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  • Hemingway Tournament Promotes Cuban Tourism

    Havana, May 25 (Prensa Latina) The 63 International Billfishing Tournament Ernest Hemingway prints greater attraction to the Cuban tourism industry because it diversify recreational modalities. Besides sports competition, this type of event highlights in the interest of thousands of people in the world who want an active holiday, where fishing is the main attraction. Visitors to this archipelago ...

  • Five climbers feared dead on Nepal mountainside

    Officials in Nepal said five missing mountain climbers were likely killed by an avalanche on Mount Kanchenjunga earlier this week. The Nepal tourism ministry said the group went missing while descending the mountain and included climbers from Nepal, Hungary and South Korea. "All our efforts to trace them have failed," Mingma Sherpa, the organizer of the expedition, told the BBC. ...

  • Ryan Lochte cruises 2 victories in Canada

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia - U.S. Olympic champion Ryan Lochte won the 200-meter backstroke and 200 freestyle Friday night in the Mel Zajac Jr. International Canada Cup.Lochte finished the backstroke in 1 minute, 59.56 seconds and took the freestyle in 1:50.15."I have a faster gear," he said. "I just never went to it. The time was decent. The win was nice."American Emily ...

  • Picnicking tourists rescued from floating iceberg in Iceland

    A cellphone photo of the picnicking American tourist group before they were rescued from an ice slab that broke off from land early this week in Iceland. A group of American tourists have been rescued from a drifting Icelandic iceberg that broke off from land as they were trying to picnic upon it, complete with folding chairs and table.The five imperiled picknicers are safe, plucked by a small ...

  • Its a snap National Parks

    15 hours ago Next week's photo assignment: SPLASH.Very nice photos for this week's photo assignment, NATIONAL PARKS. Now get out there and submit them to the National Parks photo contest by uploading them ...

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