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Great European train stations stir my wanderlust. In Munich, about to catch a train, I stand under the station’s towering steel-and-glass rooftop and study the big schedule board. It lists a dozen departures.

Several weeks ago, when the Carnival Triumph had its problems with a fire, the cruise line took some heat — and deservedly so — from me and many other cruise writers.

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Arizona Most trails in this colourful and iconic national park are tough up-and-down trails. You hike down into the canyon and then hike back up out of the canyon.

CHICAGO - Under orders to trim hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget, the Federal Aviation Administration released a final list Friday of 149 air traffic control towers that it will close at small airports around the country starting early

CHARLESTON, S.C. - A federal agency is designating 740 miles of beaches from North Carolina to Mississippi as critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtles, including 175 miles in the Carolinas.

BISMARCK, N.D. - An oil company that staked out 2 square miles of land near the site of Theodore Roosevelt's historic Badlands ranch in western North Dakota has withdrawn a state application to develop the area for oil wells.

Boeing's comments about the smouldering batteries on its 787 have annoyed the National Transportation Safety Board. Boeing gave its own account of two battery incidents, which included a fire, at a detailed press briefing in Tokyo last week.

PHILADELPHIA - "The Burghers" are back.

PHILADELPHIA - "The Burghers" are back.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is designating five new national monuments, using executive authority to protect historic or ecologically significant sites —including one in Delaware sought by Vice-President Joe Biden.