New York.– Punta Cana has been listed as one of the hot 2012 destinations for Canadian and U.S. tourists, according to an annual survey of 640 travel agents and owners from Travel Leaders.
For top 10 international destinations based on 2012 booking data, the Travel Leaders survey listed Caribbean cruises; Cancun and Playa del Carmen, Mexico; Mediterranean cruises; Rome; London; Punta Cana; Paris; Montego Bay and Negril, Jamaica.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that his navy detected a submarine in Venezuelan waters and that it quickly sped off.
The submarine was detected on Tuesday near the Venezuelan island of La Orchila in the Caribbean north of Caracas, where Venezuelan troops are participating in training drills near the island, Chavez told state television by telephone.
“It was pursued. It escaped because it’s much faster than ours,” Chavez said, referring to Venezuela’s diesel-powered submarines. He said that judging by its speed and size, “it’s a nuclear-powered submarine.”
Chavez said his government was unable to say what nation might have sent the sub. “We can’t accuse anyone,” Chavez said, adding that his government is investigating.
The leftist leader has long had tense relations with the United States, and has recently called the U.S. together with its European allies “the empires.”
“Now you know how the empires are used to going around the Caribbean Sea and going everywhere, and they also use their satellites for espionage. It’s espionage,” Chavez said.
He praised Venezuelan navy troops for their handling of the incident, saying they had driven off the sub.
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November 6, 2011
The strongest quake previously reported was of magnitude 5.5 on April 9, 1952, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
McLaren Mercedes pulled one of the oldest tricks in the book to secure pole at the Canadian Grand Prix. In a machine powered by fumes at the end of his time attack, Lewis Hamilton kicked the Red Bull Renaults off their pedestal and stole the number one starting spot on the grid.
The Red Bulls were not far away however and at a circuit which has sections with the walls and the guard rails a few feet from the asphalt, an [...]
With the doors jammed and water rushing to her feet, Carmen Tapp was facing her biggest fear: trapped in a sinking car.<p/> After a crash that launched her car into a canal Sunday afternoon, the 67-year-old Miami Springs resident was rescued by the man she hit seconds earlier.
A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces, an airline ticket to romantic places, and still my heart has wings. . . these foolish things remind me of you.
I am pleased to report that the World Cup governing body, FIFA, has finally offered an official explanation of the controversial call in the U.S.-Slovenia game by referee Koman “Ray Charles'' Coulibaly of Mars. According to FIFA's statement, the call — which cost the U.S. a win — was made because the referee, quote, “observed a traveling violation by U.S. player Joe Maca.''
As 20 million gallons of sewage spilled into Biscayne Bay this weekend, the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department and Miami-Dade Health Department tried to warn the community.
More than five months after a devastating earthquake, there are worrisome signs that the massive rebuilding efforts have stalled, a strongly worded report by the chairman of the powerful U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says.
The risk of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout reaching the Florida Keys and South Florida anytime soon is now so remote that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has suspended its trajectory maps for the area, effectively downgrading the region to low risk.
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