Rural Romania gets desperately needed cash from locals who have gone abroad to work, but it struggles to care for the children they've left behind
It took less than five years for Macau's gambling revenue to surpass that of Las Vegas, but not everyone is getting rich in the casino boom
The massive man-made reservoir supplies 90% of Las Vegas' water and it's drying up. The growing Southwest tries to do more while drinking less
Disguised in floral shirts and fanny packs, scores of the "delayed passengers" sleeping at Europe's largest airport at night are actually homeless people
Brazil's police have a fearsome reputation, but new policing methods inspired by New York's have helped cut crime and build goodwill
Stonehenge may be a mecca for tourists and seekers, but their reverie is disrupted by the noise from two highways
Shamrock green eclipsed communist red near the Forbidden City as the Chinese capital staged its first ever St. Patrick's Day Parade
The enduring allure of a twice, and possibly future, Prime Minister
How a former kindergarten teacher used her role as a crime buster to launch a showbiz career from the cover of the girlie magazine
Dispelling rumors of a snub, Madame Tussaud's invites Britain's Prime Minister to join its pantheon of mannequins. Now, he'll face the battle to stay out of its storage vaults
A tourist take on the site of the world's worst-ever nuclear meltdown
The search engine has mapped virtually every block of this small Canadian coal town though locals have responded with not much more than a shrug
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