While Beijing drivers are used to delays and traffic jams, when it comes to a nine day, non stop epic traffic jam, even the sturdiest driver’s nerves become frayed. On some days the traffic creeps no more than a third of a mile.
It is though illegal coal mining is at the bottom of it…
While attempting to land on an island in the Caribbean, a Colombian passenger plane was reportedly hit by lightning just before it crashed.
Read how the only death occurred from an apparent heart attack…
Scientists have recently confirmed that Vanuatu was host to a never-before-viewed supersize animal, in the genus Meiolania, (giant horned turtles). It was pushed to extinction by humans, on the 80 tropical island archipelago of Vanautu, in the north west corner of the South Pacific.
Read how Vanuatu is home to many more giants…
When a single engine Piper crashed landed on an Alaskan glacier there was double trouble.
Read how a rescue of five turned into a rescue of 12 people…
Billionaire Sir Richard Branson breaks yet another hard won barrier, as his dreams become reality, with the successful flight of Virgin Galactic.
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Lonely Planet released its latest travel guide list of the world’s happiest places. Topping the list is the 80 tropical island archipelago of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific island, while Montreal in Quebec takes second position. Read more…
Richie Power, 39, from Carmarthen, West Wales, was booked on a flight to Scotland to take part in a wheelchair race. As he tried to board the plane at Bristol airport he was told, “You can only walk up the aircraft steps”.
Powell has not walked since he broke his back at the age of 18, in a motorcycle accident. Read more…
If you are planning to a trip to visit the world’s most leaning towers, you would find that Italy’s Leaning Tower of Pisa can no longer lay claim to being the furthest leaning tower in the world.
Read how many other great leaning towers there are including one that used reinforced concrete in the 18 century…
A British school teacher, was left sleeping on an Air Canada long haul flight between London and Vancouver, on Kris Airlines. He was woken by an engineer, to find himself sitting in an empty hanger, an hour and a half after the plane had landed. Read more…
The chaos the Icelandic volcano created, has not gone away, but is still being felt right around the globe. Passengers are living in airports.
Read how some passengers may be forced down the road of bankruptcy because of a family holiday.
