Category: Travel

Your Golf Travel.com get Three in a Row on The Fast Track 100

Your Golf Travel.com get Three in a Row on The Fast Track 100

If you’re looking for the top rated private companies in the UK you might turn to The Sunday Times Fast Track 100. If you’re also engrossed in the world of golf you might be interested to know that Your Golf Travel.com has been listed for a third consecutive year. They are one of only twelve [...]

Pope to pilgrims: spread faith as youth fest ends

Pope Benedict XVI delivered words of encouragement to over 1.5 million young people Sunday, who were urged to become missionaries for the faith, during the conclusion of the church youth festival. He also announced the venue of the 2012 youth festival, Rio de Janeiro. The World Youth Day pilgrims, who were hosted at a Madrid [...]

Shark attack off Russia’s Far East

An extremely rare shark attack in the Sea of Japan’s northwestern part has left a young man with chewed off arms. “A 25-year-old man was brought in in grave condition, unconscious. His arms were chewed off at the elbows,” reported the Interfax news agency Wednesday, quoting a source in a hospital in the Khasan district. [...]

World’s tallest tower to go up in Saudi in 5 years

Investment Company Kingdom Holding Co., which is headed by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, is set to make a new whole record by completing the tallest tower in the world in over a five-year period. The company did not however say when it intends to start working on the project. The Kingdom Tower project, [...]

Giant Meteorite Discovered in China

News reports show the discovery of a massive space rock in northwest China’s remote and mountainous region. Reports show it could be one of the largest meteorites ever recovered. The Sky and Telescope Magazine reported that the rock, which was huge and shaped oddly, was found in the Altai Mountains in the Xinjiang Uygur province [...]

Ancient bell found in Jerusalem Old City sewer

Israeli archaeologists showed Sunday a 2000-year old tiny golden bell which was pulled from an ancient sewer beneath Jerusalem’s old city. The half-an-inch-diameter bell, which the archaeologists said was a rare find, seemed to be a clothing ornament for the city’s wealthy residents two millennia ago as indicated by the small loop on the bell. [...]

New ATM Designed For Semi-Literate and Illiterate Populations

Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are so common in most western countries and even in developing countries that it is difficult to imagine there are places in the world where people find the ATM challenging because they are either semi-literate or illiterate. ATMs usually come with a display monitor but cash register manufacturer NCR Corporation will [...]

Greens and glitter for royal couple; Skid Row next

The California tour of royal couple Prince William and wife Catherine included a trip to the Santa Barbara County for a sun-filled day at the polo fields and a diamond-studded night. William’s four goals wowed the crowd at the charity polo match. “My father, the Prince of Wales, and my brother, Harry, were as green [...]

No gorings on first day of Spain’s bull-running festival

The week-long San Fermin bull-running festival in Spain is usually marked by gorings but none of those were seen during the festival’s first day. It used to be just a local pageant until Nobel-prize winner Ernest Hemingway popularized it all over the world after he visited Pamplona in 1923. Hemingway’s visit paved the way for [...]

750,000 Olympics tickets sold in ‘second chance’ round

Phase one of the “second chance” sales round, which closed at 18:00 BST Sunday, has made available over 750,000 tickets for the London Olympics next year to 150,000 people who did not receive tickets during the first round sale early this year. This has resulted to the disappointment of 15,000 people who originally though they [...]