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The National Weather Service said more tornadoes, strong winds and hail are expected to hit four Midwest states late Tuesday.

A prominent Communist Party official has twice this week warned Chinese tourists to use "polite tourist behavior" while abroad.

Burj Al Arab has pushed the boundaries of outrageous hotel perks one step further by issuing each guest their own gold-plated iPad.

Can an airline drop you from its frequent-flier program for complaining too much? The Supreme Court will decide later this year.

The National Weather Service, or NOAA, announced Monday that several central U.S. states and multiple cities are at risk of experiencing tornadoes, high winds and hail Monday afternoon following last week's deadly storms.

The sharing economy takes an idea most of us learned in kindergarten and monetizes it.

Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war came to a bloody end exactly four years ago, but for the northern Tamils, it's not such a distant memory.

Ambulances have rushed to the scene of a collision of two Metro-North Railroad trains that occurred Friday night.

President Xi Jinping's austerity measures have hurt high-end restaurants in Beijing, some of which are facing losses unseen since the 1970s.

The drop in tourism has been attributed to the global recession, a high crime rate and a lack of investment in infrastructure.

American Airlines customers traveling with only one personal carry-on item can now board right after premium passengers.

For some it’s a pretty pink dream house. For others, it’s a house of horrors. For at least two thousand Berliners, it’s time to “Occupy Barbie Dreamhouse.”

An aircraft carrying 21 people crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Kathmandu.

Tourism Australia’s "Best Jobs in the World" campaign has been wildly successful, and just 18 finalists are left to vie for six dream jobs.

The giant Rubber Duck that debuted in Hong Kong earlier this month has deflated due to due to weather conditions, according to Victoria Harbour officials.

Thanks to ancillary fees for baggage and other items, the way airlines earn money is completely different than it was just five years ago.

The new "Papa Tour" gives visitors to Buenos Aires a chance to explore the city that fostered the man who would become Pope Francis.

A series of high-profile crimes against foreigners has raised issues of safety in Thailand, but the government hopes "tourist courts" can help.

Canberra, Australia, has commissioned a controversial $300,000 hot air balloon known as Skywhale in honor of its centenary.

If a hotel allows smoking in any of its rooms, the smoke gets into all of them, according to a study published Monday in Tobacco Control.

A weather phenomenon hailed as an ice tsunami ripped through the Lake Mille Lacs area of Minnesota Saturday, causing major property damage.

The U.S. may be the most powerful country in the world, but it’s not the most visited. Neither is rival superpower China -- at least not yet.

Christie’s auction house will help wealthy Chinese snap up not just a fine bottle of French wine but also the vineyard it came from.

A recent study revealed the "Top 10 Most Redneck" cities based on criteria such as the number of Wal-Mart stores and gun and ammunition retailers in proximity, and cities with the fewest number of high school graduates.

Marketing to Americans is not worth the time, money or effort, according to the Canadian Tourism Commission.

The 1988 World’s Fair may have put Brisbane, Australia, on the map, but 25 years later, the city is finally ready to come into its own.

When two Carnival Spirit passengers fell overboard Wednesday it was, sadly, nothing new. Some 200 others have met the same fate since 2000.

Abu Dhabi airport's futuristic "sleeping pods" offer travelers a tiny private place to work or snooze.

Oakland, Calif., is the “most exciting city in America.” That’s right, not San Francisco, not New York, not Chicago, not L.A.