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Authorities are trying to figure out how 11-year-old Liam Corcoran managed to pass through border controls and ticket checks without documentation Tuesday and board a Jet2.com flight from Manchester to Rome.

Speaking on the first day of the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., chief executives from over 20 leading multinational corporations called upon 46 countries to lift travel restrictions on HIV-positive individuals.

Need a place to crash in Berlin this summer? Strapped for cash? Here’s an idea: Stay in the “smallest house in the world,” One-Sqm-House, for just 1 euro per night.

Two Canadian sisters die mysteriously in their rented island bungalow, believed poisoned. Less than a week later, an Australian woman is stabbed to death in Phuket. Their deaths are the latest in a tumult of violence to shake tourism in postcard-perfect Thailand.

Like Columbine, Aurora, Colorado, will likely lose its innocence as a scenic, mile-high Rocky Mountain town and become instead the scene of a tragedy.

Fly first class to Hong Kong for just four frequent flier miles and $33 in taxes. That’s the deal several United Airlines customers found online Sunday, but if it sounds too good to be true, it may just be.

It’s been some five centuries since the fall of the Inca Empire, but the civilization’s most familiar icon, Machu Picchu, is as busy as ever. With over one million tourists visiting Peru each year to explore the miraculous pre-Columbian ruins, activists hope to inspire the crowds to help stop other indigenous tribes in Peru’s “Sacred Valley” from suffering a similar fate.

Introducing “S.S. Coachella,” a cruise ship concert the pairs sand and surf with sun and sound.

Coachella has sprouted sea legs. The SS Coachella will be setting sail, it's a cruise line with up of artists like Pulp, Hot Chip, Yeasayer and Girl Talk, just to name a few. Goldenvoice has decided to take the musical festival to the sea.

Steeped in history -- both spectacular and sordid -- Cambodia is the perpetual comeback kid.

The FBI is investigating how sewing needles got into turkey sandwiches served on four U.S.-bound Delta Air Lines flights out of Amsterdam Sunday --- an incident that has raised concerns about the security of in-flight food and its potential to be used in an act of terrorism.

Hawaiian Airlines announced on Sunday it would begin nonstop flights to Auckland next March, becoming the only U.S. carrier to fly to New Zealand.

As athletes poured into London for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games on Monday, many were treated to an unintentional “tour” of the city as bumper-to-bumper traffic, stopped trains and crowded airports created travel chaos.

Western Australia’s reputation as the world’s deadliest place for shark attacks has made it a tough sell for prospective tourists, and local authorities have asked the federal government to consider lifting the ban on fishing of great whites to help alleviate the problem.

For 223 years and running, France has celebrated the destruction of a prison with a massive bash called La Fête Nationale (French National Celebration) or quatorze juillet (July 14) -- better known to most of us as Bastille Day.

Is it safe to travel to Myanmar? Is it ethical to travel to Antarctica? Where can I go in the Middle East where I won't be shot dead on the street? Let's dispel some common fears and misconceptions.

In a typical art exhibition, you’re expected to keep your hands behind your back, maintain a respectful distance from the artwork and, above all else, refrain from touching anything. But the Magic Art Exhibition in Hangzhou, China, is not your run-of-the-mill show.

Each course at Ultraviolet in Shanghai is served with a tailored set of visuals, sounds and smells.

Taking a taxi ride in New York City just got a lot more expensive. The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission formally approved a fare hike Thursday that will raise prices by 17 percent starting this September.

Sir Richard Branson announced Wednesday, with typical bravado, that he and his adult children would pave the way for future space tourists as the first passengers on the SpaceShipTwo (SS2), part of his U.S.-based Virgin Galactic program, which is set to have its inaugural launch next year.

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! That?s what thousands of thrill-seekers are doing this week in Northern Spain for the 2012 running of the bulls at the annual San Fermin Festival.

Americans became fascinated with Amelia Earhart when she set out to be the first man or woman to circumnavigate the equator in an airplane. Researchers are setting out on a voyage to discover her plane after recent clues led them to believe that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, may have wound up on the tiny island of Nikumaroro, an uninhabited Pacific island, Reuters said.

When the Olympic Games began in ancient Greece around 776 BC, London didn't exist. More than two millennia later, the city of nearly 8 million people is ready to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

Can you sue the weatherman if he gets his forecast wrong? That?s the plan Belgian tourism officials have in mind.

Chinese authorities hope that a new $4.7 billion theme park will promote ethnic harmony and attract an additional 5 million tourists each year to the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Chinese name for Central Tibet.

Who needs to swim at a beach on the coast when you can frolic in some of the United States' most scenic countryside?

Kashmir's Jamaat-e-Islami religious group has issued a strict dress code that it hopes to impose on all incoming tourists. Local officials, however, fear it will hamper the region's efforts to promote itself as a safe and welcoming destination.

An unidentified man might have coined the phrase of the summer on Friday when he shouted This is my beach...before driving his car into the ocean.

Americans rejoicing the 4th of July celebrations had a rare date with history when researchers in Germany unearthed a rare 16th century map produced by master cartographer Martin Waldseemueller.