The luxury Bauer hotel was inundated by calls of concern and cancellations this week _ but was spared the floodwaters that swamped most of the city. Though just a few steps from the city's lowest point _ St. Mark's Square _ the Bauer and other ...

Verdict: Daniel Craig's second Bond film plants its foot and keeps it there. For all its success reinventing the idea of 007, Casino Royale wasn't exactly an all-out thrillfest. Sure, there was the opening foot-chase which established the new guy as ...

Oct. 1: O.J. Simpson and his attorney Yale Galanter appear during Simpson's trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Oct. 1: O.J. Simpson and his attorney Yale Galanter appear during Simpson's trial at the Clark County Regional ...

LAS VEGAS — State authorities are recommending that O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant be sentenced to 18 years in prison for the gunpoint robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers, according to documents filed Tuesday. Lawyers for the ...

The best indication that Annabelle Rama is fast recovering from a major surgery to remove two myomas barely three weeks ago was when she raised her voice over the reported “billingitis” afflicting the manager of one of the stars of Desperadas 2 ...

I just finished reading Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson. Besides the subtitle containing my favorite word these days (“rogue”, of course), it is an entertaining enough read. The chapter titled ...

Share Thousands of children are waiting up to four years for orthodontic treatment to straighten or move teeth. The four-year wait is faced by over 2,500 children in Cork and Kerry, although those in the most severe category are seen without delay ...

The history books will tell you, in dates and figures and disciplined narrative, what things were like at given times. In the 1920s, for example, Sarasota boomed, and Karl Grismer’s 1946 book “The Story of Sarasota” explained it with vivid ...

Interesting how travel fashions change. Way back when dinosaurs walked the earth, and pretty much the only way to get from Auckland to Wellington was by rail, travelling long distances by train was a nightmare, something you only did if you had to. I ...

With Christmas coming, Switzerland's second city is the perfect spot to soak up the festive atmosphere, do some shopping and enjoy some cultural attractions. Why go now? Because the second-biggest Swiss city (after Zurich) is a cultural powerhouse ...