If youre driving west along Route 66 and still do not feel satiated by the two museums dedicated to the highway in Oklahoma, you could do worse than stop in at the museum in Lebanon, Missouri.
It is smaller than the other two, so there is less to see. But there is a mock old-fashioned gas [...]
Sergeant Larry Bitsoih (left) says gangs have been active in Albuquerque since at least the 1930s and are likely to be around for a long time to come.
Gangs have always been around, they are a cultural issue in America, said the head of a new gang suppression unit set up by the city last week as [...]
OK it’s true: Bloomfield, New Mexico is actually more than 120 miles north of the path that old Route 66 took across this stark, beautiful state. But sometimes it pays to veer off the beaten path.
You reach Bloomfield from Gallup by taking state route 491 north through the heart of the Navajo Nation’s tribal lands. [...]
KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland - The town that is the gateway to Greenland doesn’t look particularly inviting at first sight. Touching down in a plane filled with scientists, journalists, tourists and locals returning from Copenhagen, we are greeted by a barren, harsh and unforgiving landscape dotted with drab cinder block buildings tiny-windowed to keep out the deep winter freeze.
Luckily, nobody comes here [...]
The trip was never going to be easy, even though it sounded like a real lark as we dreamed it up over the past year. The old highway was decommissioned decades ago, replaced by interstates, and its remaining sections are few and far between and not always easy to find. But now, with just days to go before we set off, we had new worries.
With 80 percent of Chrsyler Group going to Cerberus for $7.4 billion, a major U.S. automaker will be in the hands of a private equity group for the first time.
Buzz Hargrove, the head of the Canadian Auto Workers, called the deal “very, very worrisome for us… I don’t have any bone to pick with (Cerberus), [...]
For those who’ve covered developments in Northern Ireland over the past few years, the prospect of hardline Protestant cleric Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness sitting side by side and even cracking jokes together must once have seemed about as likely as Elvis being found alive or – as a UK tabloid newspaper once claimed - a [...]
The election Sunday of center-rightest Nicolas Sarkozy in France is being viewed as:
A headache for European Union officials after he urged his European partners to “hear the voice of the people who want to be protected.”
A potentially divisive political event at home. Left-wing papers “came out in mourning” on Monday, Kerstin Gehmlich reports from Paris.
A [...]
The latest front cover of satirical magazine Private Eye depicts Tony Blair peering through a magnifying glass and exclaiming, “Oh look – it’s my legacy!”
After a decade of a Labour Government, how will you remember Tony Blair’s premiership?
Will it – as the critics say – be Iraq, WMDs, dodgy dossiers and spin?
Or will it actually [...]
As soon as Dow Jones confirmed an approach from News Corp., speculation sprang up in some corners that a takeover battle for the Wall Street Journal publisher was surely about to begin.
Paul Kedroksy, the Infectious Greed blogger who calls himself “an occasional commentator on CNBC”, said GE/NBC should bid aggressively for Dow Jones. “A new Fox biz network with integrated WSJ/DJ/Marketwatch will be [...]
