admin on Jan 23rd 2009 Uncategorized
- India's heat wave has triggered protests in Delhi over a power cut crisis. - Venice has its first ever female gondolier, breaking nine centuries of male-only tradition in the Italian city. - The UK Foreign Office (FCO) is advising UK travellers in Honduras to stay at their hotel after receiving reports that President Zelaya has been expelled from the country and that Congress is in emergency session. - Rhodes has the cleanest beaches in the European Union -- with more Blue Flag awards than any other island. - Korea's tourism organisation is seeking creative bloggers with an enthusiasm for Korea's landscape, culture and cuisine to share their stories online. - A Yemeni airliner with more than 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros islands. - At least 15 people have been killed and 50 injured after a freight train transporting gas derailed and exploded in northern Tuscany in Italy. - A Chinese airline is seeking permission from its government to sell standing-only tickets to passengers, according to media reports today. - Philadelphia, the second biggest city on the US east coast, will hold its momentous Fourth of July celebrations over two fun-packed weekends: the free 'Sunoco Welcome America' festival. - The US Department of State has updated its Honduras travel advice and is recommending that American citizens defer all non-essential travel there until further notice. - Spain has suffered its first swine flu fatality in the country's capital, Madrid - taking the EU fatality total to four. - A new sea link bridge has opened in the Indian city of Mumbai between the western suburbs of Bandra and Worli over the Arabian Sea. - The EU's transport chief has called for a global airline blacklist identifying all airlines that are considered unsafe.