A group of American tourists have been rescued from a drifting Icelandic iceberg that broke off from land as they were trying to picnic upon it, complete with folding chairs and table.The five imperiled picknicers are safe, plucked by a small rescue boat from the ice slab floating atop deathly frigid waters of the Fjallsárlón glacial lagoon in Iceland, five-and-a-half hours east of Reykhavik.“The ...
Next week's photo assignment: SPLASH.Very nice photos for this week's photo assignment, NATIONAL PARKS. Now get out there and submit them to the National Parks photo contest by uploading them to sharetheexperience.org.Scroll through the collection and vote for your favorite. When you're done, upload your own best SPLASH photos -- we may choose one of your photos for next week's spread!
After famously telling hurricane-weary tourists in 2011 to “get the hell back on the beach," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is on another, softer, mission to lure visitors back to his state’s sandy shores.With the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy last fall still on the minds of many vacationers, Christie is spending Memorial Day weekend – the unofficial start of the summer season – traveling ...
LONDON - Europe’s busiest airport was disrupted for several hours Friday after a British Airways plane made an emergency landing at Heathrow with a fire in at least one engine.Thousands of travelers were delayed or diverted to other London airports following the incident, shortly after 8 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET).All 75 passengers were safely evacuated from the Airbus A319 using emergency chutes...
