Thursday, August 18, 2011

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Taste the world

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:46 AM PDT

50 foods worth traveling the world for
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Graying icon

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:34 AM PDT

Filipino jeepneys lose their color
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Animal tours

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:39 AM PDT

15 trips for animal lovers
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Futuristic 'Sleepbox' debuts in Moscow

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:04 AM PDT

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Travelers can finally sleep with dignity, even in departure lounges

The debate over climbing Uluru

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:58 AM PDT

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Indigenous beliefs and safety concerns about the sacred monolith

Obama's 'Chinese' brother on the stump at Shanghai Book Fair

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 01:42 AM PDT

Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo

When the Shanghai Book Fair opened its doors yesterday, two authors grabbed the headlines -- one a Nobel Laureate, the other the half-brother of POTUS himself, Barack Obama.

Alongside Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, was in town to promote the Chinese edition of his book "Nairobi to Shenzhen." (从内罗毕到深圳)

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Russians unveil space hotel

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 11:24 PM PDT

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"Getting away from it all" may be a travel marketing cliché, but the phrase might take on a whole new meaning come 2016.

Russian firm Orbital Technologies plans to open the first space hotel in history in five year's time.

The space hotel, or "Commercial Space Station," as it's officially called, will float 250 miles above Earth.

The hotel can accommodate a maximum of seven people at a time.

To check in, tourists will have to undergo special training that can take up to three months, depending on the type of spacecraft they fly to the hotel.

The firm says that stays can range from three days to six months.

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The world's most expensive city is ...

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:47 PM PDT

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Which cities laugh loudest at travelers' budgets?

Can Bollywood save Archie Comics?

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:29 PM PDT

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The Riverdale gang comes to Mumbai and finds everything "amazing." Locals will find less to cheer about

World’s sexiest accents

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:01 PM PDT

In the unending pursuit of love, or its less eternal surrogate, the right accent can be as attractive as bright eyes, a beaming smile and a parabolic backside.

For world travelers, a far-flung tongue promises the unknown, confirms the known and dispels the thought-we-knew.

Does our highly scientific survey exclude your favorite accent? Vote on our Facebook poll.

But no accent is sexy when it's strong enough to crush a beer can. Which means not all accents are created equal.

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