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May 14, 2012 11:45 am
According to research from a YouGov poll, which was conducted under commission by currency card provider Caxton FX, the ‘Holidays at Home are Great’ campaign put together by VisitEngland has been a flop. VisitEngland launched the campaign on billboards and [...]
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May 9, 2012 11:44 am
In February, the state of Nevada approved laws that will allow Google to test self-driving vehicles on its roads. However, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has just issued the first licences this week after successful tests were conducted [...]
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May 7, 2012 8:04 am
Travellers have voted London as the best destination in the world to visit in the travel site’s 2012 Travelers’ Choice Destination awards. This is the fourth year that TripAdvisor has featured the awards, during which 440 destinations across 37 markets [...]
January 26, 2012 10:22 am
The New South Wales (NSW) Coalition government is due to ban regular unleaded petrol this July, forcing as many as 750,000 motorists to pay a minimum of $150 more every year to refuel. It’s the only government in Australia to [...]
January 24, 2012 11:59 am
Today, Dutch salvage operators plan to beginning pumping some 2,400 tonnes of fuel out of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, which is still resting on the edge of rocks off the coast of Tuscan island Giglio in the largest marine sanctuary [...]
January 20, 2012 1:15 pm
On Thursday, there was a 25-car pileup on Highway 402 in Ontario, Canada amid the snowstorm just after 10am. The Special Investigation Unit for the province is now probing the crash after two people died. Due to the collision, which [...]
January 19, 2012 9:15 am
Babies are born outside of the hospital all the time. Sometimes, these babies are born while the mother is trying to make it to the hospital. This just so happens to be the case for one baby who arrived at [...]
January 17, 2012 10:52 am
On Monday, labour unions in Nigeria suspended a strike that was paralysing the economy, which is the third-largest on the continent, for over a week. The suspension followed President Goodluck Jonathan offering to partially reinstate a subsidy on fuel. The [...]
January 13, 2012 1:08 pm
Winter has returned, and it’s not holding back at all. Chicago was slammed with a snowstorm on Thursday morning that has disrupted flights and road travel for the city and surrounding areas. The Chicago metro area was forecast to get [...]
January 12, 2012 8:38 am
Travel search site Hipmunk has announced that a major update to its app is available on Android, iPhone and iPad devices. The update, which is free (so is downloading the app) will bring an innovative hotel search to mobile devices [...]