LIMA, Peru - Peruvian officials say they expect train service to the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu will be restored March 29. Fierce rains in January washed out the rail link, the only terrestrial means of arrival other than by foot.
Peru says rail link to Machu Picchu to be partially restored by end of March
LIMA, Peru - Peruvian officials say they expect train service to the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu will be restored March 29.
Fierce rains in January washed out the rail link, the only terrestrial means of arrival other than by foot.
Hold your nose: Royal B.C. Museum offers behind-the-scenes exhibit
VICTORIA, B.C. - Inside a black, hot-tub-sized plastic container, filled with sickly sweet-smelling ethanol, rests a six-metre-long squid that washed up on the shore at Long Beach.
Teeth marks from a sperm whale are embedded in the big, dead squid's head at Victoria's Royal B.C. Museum.
Nepal, in late-blooming sexual revolution, beckons gay tourism market
KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal wants to paint Mount Everest pink.
It wants gay honeymooners trekking through the Himalayas. It wants to host the world's highest same-sex wedding at Everest base camp. But mainly, the conservative Hindu nation wants a chunk of the multibillion dollar gay tourism market to help pull it out of poverty.
Milan's Malpensa airport testing full body scanner
MILAN, Italy - Milan's Malpensa hub has become the second Italian airport to try out a full body scanner at a terminal that serves U.S. airliner.
Rome's main airport, Leonardo da Vinci, installed a machine on an experimental basis earlier this month.
Theatre on site of 1st playhouse in U.S. reopens in S.C. after $18M renovation
The Dock Street Theatre in Charleston's historic district, on the site of America's first theatre, is reopening after a three-year, $18-million renovation.
The theatre is known to audiences regionally and around the world for the productions staged there by the Spoleto Festival USA.
New Tokyo area airport opens with little traffic, lots of criticism as wasteful
TOKYO - Tokyo's third international airport opened Thursday with festivity - and heavy criticism that it is a wasteful project likely to serve just a fraction of the passengers forecast.
Hundreds of passengers and visitors wandered through Ibaraki Airport's concourses and halls as special commemorative flights were scheduled on opening day. About 170 first arrivals on a special flight from Kobe in western Japan were greeted by marching bands, officials and airport mascots.
Savannah resurrects Ellis Square, historic treasure lost to 1954 development
SAVANNAH, Ga. - For more than 55 years, Savannah counted Ellis Square among its lost historic treasures.
Of the city's 22 public squares, Ellis Square was one of the first plotted in 1733. Since 1872, it was home to the City Market where farmers sold crops directly to shoppers.
Gastroenteritis strikes same cruise ship in Brazil for the 2nd time; 47 passenger sickened
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Nearly 50 passengers aboard an international cruise ship docked in Brazil have been stricken with vomiting and diarrhea, a health official said Friday. It was the same ship that last week was briefly placed under quarantine after hundreds of people came down with gastroenteritis.
"At least 47 passengers on the Vision of the Seas, operated by Royal Caribbean International, were stricken by what we believe are noroviruses that cause gastroenteritis," a spokesman for the National Agency for Sanitary Vigilance said. He spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with department policy.
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Toronto's Scaramouche solves lease woes and will remain in same location
TORONTO - The landmark and award-winning Scaramouche restaurant will be staying at One Benvenuto Place until the end of 2016.
The announcement comes after several years of lease negotiations and speculation about where the venerable Toronto eatery would move.
Busy day expected at Pearson Airport due to March Break getaway
TORONTO - March Break is just about here and that means one of the busiest travel times of the year at Pearson International Airport in Toronto.
The airport expects to process 91,000 passengers today and another 98,000 on Friday - the busiest days of the March Break season. Pearson typically handles about 84,000 passengers per day.
The footsteps of Moses: Ascending Mount Sinai on a cold night for a warm sunrise
ST. CATHERINE, Egypt - In the Bible, Moses climbs Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments.
But he was the chosen one, and I am a mere mortal. Divine intervention seemed unlikely as I stood at the base of the mountain, chilled to the bone at 2 a.m., with only the faint light from the stars and a sliver of moon on the dark rocky terrain.
Hotel occupancy in Hawaii increasing, indicating market beginning to recover
HONOLULU - Hospitality Advisors LLC says hotel occupancy in Hawaii increased during four of the past five months, indicating the market is beginning to recover.
Its new report released Wednesday said occupancy in January stood at 66.5 per cent, up from 63.1 per cent in January of last year. However, continued price discounting led to a 10.4 per cent drop in the average daily room rate to US$176.88.
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Talks between British Airways, cabin crew to avert strike end with no agreement
LONDON - British Airways says talks with a cabin crew union aimed at averting a strike have broken down with no agreement.
A BA spokesman said Wednesday the company remains available for negotiations about the long-running dispute over pay, job security and working conditions. Cabin crew voted last month to authorize a strike, but the union has said it would not disrupt the busy Easter holiday period.
Rarely seen Italian Renaissance painting will be on view at Milwaukee Art Museum
MILWAUKEE - Rarely lent from the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy, Raphael Sanzio's painting "The Woman with the Veil" is making its last United States' appearance likely for many years at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Responding to Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," Raphael developed his own idea of beauty in the portrait, which was completed around 1516.
Lost bag? Bumped from a flight? When to complain to a higher authority
DALLAS - So the airline lost your luggage. Should you make a federal case out of it - literally?
Each year, passengers file thousands of complaints about airlines with the U.S. federal government. If you're hoping to change the airline's behaviour, take this route - and be very patient. But if you just want compensation for your loss, travel experts suggest going straight to the source.
Art works, world leaders coming to Colorado for monthlong Latin American culture event
DENVER - Latin American artists will display works including such eclectic pieces as a mural chiseled out of vinyl and a large-scale reproduction of the first ever particle accelerator during a monthlong event that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said will highlight the Western Hemisphere's common heritage.
The event featuring artists from 35 countries will be a "world's fair" of ideas, Hickenlooper said, with current and former world leaders also participating in forums around the city beginning July 1.
16th annual Honolulu Festival expected to provide boost for Hawaii's visitor industry
HONOLULU - The 16th annual Honolulu Festival is expected to provide a much-needed boost for Hawaii's visitor industry.
Organizers say more than 4,700 people are coming, mostly from Japan, specifically to take part in the festival set for the weekend of March 13-14. They are forecast to generate close to $10 million in visitor spending.
42,000-year-old intact baby mammoth from Ice Age on display at The Field Museum in Chicago
CHICAGO - Some 42,000 years after scientists say she fell into mud near a river and suffocated, an intact baby woolly mammoth from the Ice Age is to go on display for the first time in the United States at The Field Museum.
Scientists say the mammoth calf, named Lyuba, is the best preserved and most complete mammoth specimen known. She was found in 2007 by a reindeer herder in northern Siberia's remote Yamal-Nenets autonomous region and named for his wife.