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Tucked away in the south of Iceland is a village called Kirkjubæjarklaustur with approximately 120 people. Often called Klaustur for short, Kirkjubæjarklaustur is located between Vík and Höfn and it offers services such in banking, post office, supermarket and a fuel station.

In honor of International Women’s Day 2012, here's a look at the best and worst places to be a woman. Caution: The results may surprise you.

The Bihar Mahavir Mandir Trust held a foundation-laying ceremony on Monday for a $20 million Angkor Wat replica project in India's Bihar state.

Though India's Festival of Colors doesn't officially start until March 8, Lathmar Holi attracted thousands of revelers over the weekend to the small villages of Barsana and Nandgaon.

Prince Harry began his Diamond Jubilee tour with visits to Belize, the Bahamas, and Jamaica.

All-inclusive resorts, dazzling azure waters, hilltop golf courses, voodoo mysteries, fire-breathing jerks, and kissing dolphins... all of this awaits in Jamaica's Montego Bay.

A Humboldt penguin escaped from Tokyo's Sea Life Park zoo over the weekend and was last photographed swimming in a city river.

The collapse of the Perito Moreno glacier near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, southern Argentina, attracts thousands of tourists. This year, the glacier collapsed March 4.

United Airlines battled service problems, including flight delays, faulty kiosks and jammed phone lines, this weekend as it worked through technical glitches during its combination of the United and Continental Airlines reservation systems.

Symbolic of the drama surrounding the Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy, the initial hearing of the criminal investigation into the cruise-ship disaster was conducted Saturday not in a courthouse but in a theater. Outside the venue, one story line has the cruise ship's skipper not wearing his eyeglasses on the evening of the accident.

Thousands of people reported seeing a meteor or fireball in the sky across the UK from northern England to Scotland.

John Salemme explores Sarajevo 20 years after the start of the Bosnian War.

The ways in which business gets done in today's global marketplace is evolving at a rapid rate. Even in the midst of new paradigms and emerging technologies, one thing remains constant: big deals often come together over meals.

Many of the Costa Allegra passengers who disembarked on the island of Mahé on Thursday morning will extend their vacation, and are hoping that two weeks on land on a tropical island will be incident-free.

Costa has a number of planes on stand-by, ready to take passengers from the Allegra cruise ship back to Rome.

Saturday, March 4 marks the start of the Iditarod 2012 when mushers from around the world will embark on a 1,150-mile trail of some of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer.

Many of the passengers on Flight 5124 feared for their lives Monday night when their plane made an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Frankfurt airport operator Fraport and airline Lufthansa will seek an injunction after trade union GdF urged control tower staff to join walkouts by airfield staff at Europe's third largest airport.

“The World’s Biggest Party” just got a little smaller in The City of Samba, Keith Loutit's tilt-shift look at Rio Carnival.

The Costa Allegra cruise ship has been reached by the French fishing ship Travignon is being towed the Allegra toward the Seychelles' main islands.

(VIDEO) Dangerous Landing of United Flight With No Front Wheel at Newark: Miraculous Escape with all Passengers Safe

Within a month from the release of first close-up pictures of the “uncontacted” Mashco-Piro tribe of Peru, concerns regarding “human safaris” allegedly threatening the tribe have surfaced.

Costa Allegra Cruise Ship Hit by Fire: Capsized Costa Concordia Sinks; Sister Ship Stuck and Adrift in Pirate-Ridden Seas (PHOTOS)

Disney Fantasy will arrive in New York Harbor on Tuesday and take its maiden voyage out of Port Canaveral, Florida on March 31. But before it does, here's a sneak peak inside ...

A decades-old dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the remote Falkland Islands, which the Argentines call the Malvinas, heated up Monday when two Carnival Corp. cruise ships were refused entry at the port of Ushuaia.

The Costa Allegra is adrift off the coast of Seychelles after a fire erupted in the electrical room. The incident comes just weeks after another Costa Crociere ship, the Costa Concordia, ran aground off the Italian coast killing at least 25.

Italian cruise ship the Costa Allegra is adrift without engine power off the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

A cruise ship owned by Costa is reportedly adrift off the Seychelles in the Indian ocean following a fire on board.

Terminal One at San Francisco International Airport reopened after an earlier scare when a TSA officer spotted a suspicious package.