Virgin CEO Richard Branson announced that Ashton Kutcher has signed up to be the 500th "astronaut customer" who will travel into outer space with Virgin Galactic.
Branson announced on his blog post "I gave Ashton a quick call to congratulate and welcome him. He is as thrilled as we are at the prospect of being among the first to cross the final frontier (and back!) with us and to e
As we continue to enjoy/bemoan - depending on your outlook - this 'winter that wasn't,' you're bound to wonder, where is this winter's snow that's not in Upstate New York? It's in a place you wouldn't expect: Africa.
In what’s being seen by many as an incredulous move, Carnival Corp., the parent company of the downed Costa Concordia cruise ship, is offering survivors of the disaster 30 percent off future cruise vacations.
Multiple news outlets, including the BBC, are reporting that there is a mystery woman who may in some way be involved in the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia.
At least two Americans are among the estimated 16 people missing after a cruise ship hit a reef on Friday night and capsized off the west coast of Italy with 4,200 passengers and crew aboard.
The fast-food giant McDonald's recently closed its restaurants in the South American country of Bolivia. Despite the popularity of beef in neighboring Brazil and Argentina, Bolivians never got a taste for American style hamburgers.
Pravda, which reported the story, states that the Bolivian palate prefers slow-cooked foods and the fast-food concept never caught on...
2011 can be tracked by its dramatic events, beginning with the Tuscon shooting that critically wounded US Rep. Gabby Giffords and continuing all the way up to the death of Muammar Gadhafi in October. Our minds were consumed with thoughts of the earthquake in Japan, the death of Steve Jobs and all the anxiety that came with the Occupy Wall Street protests
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Even though the official Thanksgiving here in the States is later this week, U.S. soldiers in Iraq gathered for an early Thanksgiving dinner because they are shutting down the last dining facility as they prepare to depart the country for good.