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Stockholm to screen ice movies Stockholm - To mark the 20th anniversary of Stockholm's International Film Festival organisers have decided to use a screen made of ice at one of the festival's outdoor events. The screen will be 3.5 by 4.8 metres in s...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

Largest and most expensive cruise ship almost ready to take to seas
Helsinki - A thin layer of ice covers the teak wood deck of the cruise ship the Oasis of the Seas at the moment. But the cold weather is just one of the challenges a visitor will need to overcome if they want to visit the vessel: tins of paint are ev...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

A dream city with no problems? - Vancouver on eve of Winter Olympics
Vancouver, Canada - Vancouver has the best quality of life of any big city in the world, according to the British international affairs magazine The Economist. The magazine grades cities around the globe according to criteria such as security, leisur...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

Albino alligator a star attraction at California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco - Claude is 13-years-old and snow-white. A rare albino American alligator, he lives in the swamp exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He'd be dead already in the wild, remarked Stephanie Stone, the Academy's...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

Central Australia: nothing, to write home about
Alice Springs, Australia - Fly from Sydney towards Alice Springs and you start with lots and end with almost nothing: the city, its suburbs, then bigger and bigger farms give way to desert so harsh and unyielding it has mostly been left alone. That's...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

World's largest cruise ship embarks on US voyage
Helsinki - The world's largest cruise ship Friday morning left the Finnish shipyard where it was built and embarked on its voyage to its home port in Florida, US. The 360-metre long Oasis of the Seas was built at the STX Finland shipyard in Turku o...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-30 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

2009 Taipei International Travel Fair opens with focus on China
Taipei - The 2009 Taipei International Travel Fair opened Friday with its focus on China, as Taipei-Beijing ties showed improvement and China ranked as the biggest source of tourists bound for Taiwan. President Ma Ying-jeou cut the ribbon for the tra...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-30 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

World's largest cruise ship readying for US voyage
Helsinki - The world's largest cruise ship is soon to leave the Finnish shipyard where it was built for its home port in Florida, US, reports said Thursday. The 16-deck Oasis of the Seas can carry some 5,400 passengers and was built at the STX Finl...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-29 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

Hong Kong visitor numbers rise as economy improves
Hong Kong - The number of visitors to Hong Kong rose in September as optimism over the improving economy and a series of holidays encouraged more people to travel, according to official figures released Wednesday. The city of 7 million, which has jus...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-28 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

US pilots lose licence after being lost on flight
Washington - Two airline pilots have had their licenses withdrawn after they overflew their destination and were lost for more than an hour while they were toying with their personal laptops, US federal aviation officials announced in Washington late...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-28 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

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