For nearly 20 years, the fire and brimstone that erupted from a thunderous volcano in front of the Mirage Hotel & Casino brought the parade of tourists on the Las Vegas Strip to a halt and lent the resort worldwide recognition. After a $25 million ...

Aboard the M.S. Eurodam, North Sea —- There’s something about the smell of a new cruise ship. It’s not quite like that “new car smell” that dealers spray into their vehicles. Maybe it’s the brass polish or simply the fresh-scrubbed shine ...

ATLANTA, Oct. 7, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRXI), a major developer of touring museum quality exhibitions, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended August 31, 2008. Premier Exhibition's ...

Danish poker pro Gus "The Great Dane" Hansen is truly a great poker player, having won nearly six million dollars in career poker tournament earnings. But when it comes to running a website-even one about poker-he is just as inept as the next clown ...

The financial turmoil rippling across the globe will set back efforts to fight climate change, drying up capital that could help poorer countries upgrade to clean energy technology, the U.N. climate chief said Thursday. "You can't pick an empty ...

Controversial, caustic but a popular read: poker writer and special contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, Thomas Somach, may be the most hated man in all of Denmark these days, more hated than.....well....nobody is more hated than Thomas Somach ...

HUNDREDS of building projects across Scotland could be under threat after eight councils were dragged into the financial turmoil caused by the collapse of the Icelandic banking system. About £1 billion of UK taxpayers' money held in Icelandic banks ...

T he great writer immortalised the Black Forest spa of Baden-Baden as Roulettenberg in his novel The Gambler . Today, you can trace his fortunes by following a trail from the well-kept hotels in which he began his visit to the town to the plaque ...

Mads Mikkelsen in "After the Wedding." March 29, 2007 | Nearly all the attention in this year's foreign-language Oscar race went to the two high-profile entries, the dark fairyland of "Pan's Labyrinth" and the rigorous evocation of East Germany's ...

The Bond star will be honoured at the 21st European Film Awards , in Copenhagen in December. It is in recognition of her film and theatre work, including screen roles such as Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown, Armande Voizin in Chocolat and Iris Murdoch in ...