Venice was hit Sunday by a record third exceptional tide in the same week while other parts of Italy struggled with a series of weather woes, from rain-swollen rivers to high winds to an out-of-season avalanche.
Australia’s national carrier Qantas on Friday successfully completed a 19 1/2 -hour, nonstop flight from London to Sydney, which was used to run a series of tests to assess the effects of ultralong-haul flights on crew fatigue and passenger jetlag.
A northeast Georgia city could tighten rules limiting how long someone can stay in a hotel, prompting concerns about harms to people who would otherwise be homeless.
Yellowstone National Park officials have unveiled a proposal from a company that wants to install Wi-Fi in the park’s developed areas.
Ten veterans will be inducted into the Connecticut Veterans Hall of Fame.
Extensive Army training will close two Louisiana wildlife management areas near Fort Polk to hunters over the Thanksgiving weekend. That word comes from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
The Henry Ford in suburban Detroit has acquired more than 6,600 Hallmark Keepsake ornaments from an Indiana collector.
Rising global temperatures are worrying truffle hunters around the Italian town of Alba, where the most prized specimens can fetch twice the price of gold.
Authorities say a collision between two passenger jets on the tarmac at Frankfurt Airport caused damage but left no one injured.
Venetians are bracing for the prospect of another exceptional tide in a season that is setting records.
The leader of a western Colorado community that relies on tourism is vowing to do everything he can to stop the proposed expansion of a nearby limestone quarry.
The Utah high school where the Disney movie “High School Musical” was filmed over a decade ago has become a tourist destination, and the trend could grow with the premiere of Disney’s new streaming service series based on the film.
The mainland Chinese students arriving from Hong Kong huddled with their suitcases, waiting for a bus to take them to temporary accommodation in this city across the border from the protest-wracked territory.
Tourists and residents were allowed back into St. Mark’s Square in Venice on Saturday, a day after it was closed due to exceptionally high tidal waters that swept through most of the lagoon city’s already devastated center.
Fans of the Missouri River can learn about its importance to the Great Plains at an upcoming lecture in Lincoln.
Thirteen artists worked to replicate 147-year-old Alutiiq ceremonial garments as part of the Pinguat - Beads project funded by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The Iron Curtain was more than just a figure of speech: Communist regimes set up thousands of miles of heavily-guarded, electrified barbed wire fencing to completely isolate Eastern Europe from the West.
Bill Russell finally accepted his Basketball Hall of Fame ring.
The historic lagoon city of Venice exists on the edge of a double threat: As it sinks, the seas rise.
The Currier Museum of Art on Friday acquired a second New Hampshire home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
He caught a fish “this” big. No, really.
