Insight Vacations have released an Essential Europe tour package that will cover landmarks and attractions in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and England. Guests on the Essential Europe tour will visit the Dutch fishing village of ...

3 Dec 2008

A Mexican army guard stands in front of $26.2 million seized from a house in northwestern Sinaloa state, it was the second largest cash haul in the country's history. The Mexican government's crackdown on drug traffickers has sent the big players ...

3 Dec 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Bill Richardson had the first close shave of his tenure as Barack Obama's commerce secretary Wednesday -- becoming the butt of the president-elect's razor-sharp jokes about his missing beard. NEW YORK (AFP) - City crime is one ...

3 Dec 2008

5: Threats to attack Paris’s Eiffel Tower and the city’s gay mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, are posted on a website catering to Islamic fundamentalists. The mayor -- who was stabbed in a 2002 antigay attack -- later announces his interest in running ...

3 Dec 2008

Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Spike’s burgers, Eric’s bistro fare and Alain’s elegant meals are the newest dining options in Washington from celebrity chefs whose first names are becoming almost as familiar as Wolfgang and Emeril. Spike Mendelsohn of ...

3 Dec 2008

INNER-city Milton is chock-full of Brisbane icons - there's the Fourex Brewery, Suncorp Stadium and the Park Road Eiffel Tower replica. But many locals and westside commuters would add a well-known white fibreglass horse to that list. So when Chester ...

3 Dec 2008