Mark Johanson

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg named the Muppets NYC Family Ambassadors on Friday ... and kissed Miss Piggy.

According to Australian brewery XXXX: No man is an island. But every man deserves one.

What will future generations know about everyday life in 2012? Swedish organization aday.org hopes to make things easier by creating a visual archive, documenting A Day In The World as it looked on May 15, 2012.

Chile's Atacama Desert is a place of constant change. Steamy days give way to harsh nights, desert sands give way to sweeping salt flats, and, at any given time of day, the landscape could transform from dove-white to tan, coral, peach, mauve, and indigo. Who knew the driest place on Earth could be so alive?

Survivor Dorothy Gibson's “Saved From the Titanic” (1912) was the original Titanic mythmaker and the first movie to tackle the disaster. Yet like the ship itself, the film is now the stuff of legends.

The viral video Girl Blown By A Plane shows a tourist plane spotting dangerously close to the runway at St. Maarten's Princess Juliana International Airport.

As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy, here's a look at some of the lesser known facts that have been lost to history.

Hangover Heaven, a new mobile clinic in Las Vegas, promises to cure your hangover in 45 minutes.

This Unesco World Heritage site rises from the Pacific Coast like a kaleidoscope of color.

Pilots for Spanish airline Iberia, part of International Airlines Group, went on strike on Monday, grounding 150 flights in the first of 30 one-day strikes to protest against the start-up of low-cost carrier Iberia Express.

The Titanic Memorial Cruise departed Southampton on Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the storied ship's first and last journey.

Santiago may lack the hype of Rio or Buenos Aires, but don't let that turn you away. Chile's sprawling capital city is cultured, unpredictable, and very ambitious.

If the name Next Media Animation, or NMA, doesn't ring a bell, then how about this: crazy Taiwanese animators. Chances are you've come across one of NMA's signature videos.

All-you-can-fly airline Surf Air is set to take off in California this summer, but will the new model work?

Buford, Wyoming, the smallest town in America, was sold to a Vietnamese man for $900,000 on Thursday.

Hundreds more American Airlines flights were canceled on Friday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in the wake of Tuesday's powerful tornado-riddled storm.

How did your countrymen fare?

Samuel L. Jackson was not around to help an Australian pilot who found himself in a real life Snakes on a Plane scare.

Be assured that if a town near you had anything at all to do with the RMS Titanic, its passengers, or its crew, it will celebrate the 100th anniversary this April in a big way.

Hundreds of flights out of DFW Airport were canceled Wednesday after a series of Tornadoes struck the Dallas area on April 3, 2012.

Japan's strongest storm since 1959 caused travel chaos on Tuesday, grounding over 600 flights, halting rail service, and causing major traffic jams.

Flights out of flood-stricken Fiji resumed Tuesday as government officials expressed concerns that disease could quickly spread through the island's evacuation centers.

On Monday, the Bhutanese government led a session in the UN called Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm, that highlighted the world's happiest countries and discussed how to put happiness on the global agenda.

U.S. airlines treated passengers better last year, earning the highest score in the 22 years of the Airline Quality Rating survey.

The 2012 Myanmar elections have been hailed as the most important sign yet that the nation's nascent reform movement is earnest in its commitment to change. But before that change comes, here's a look inside...

Severe floods in Fiji have left around 2,000 foreign tourists stranded at Nadi Airport waiting for flights out.

The stricken luxury cruise ship Azamara Quest docked at a port in the Malaysian town of Sandakan on Borneo island Sunday after a fire left it stranded for 24 hours.

Why are the lights and logos out at the Empire State Building, Sydney Opera House, Eiffel Tower, Christ the Redeemer, Burj Khalifa, and Great Wall of China? They've all gone dark for Earth Hour 2012 as a symbolic gesture of each nation's commitment to sustainability.

A new tour at the film studios outside London where the Harry Potter blockbusters were shot aims to champion the unsung heroes -- from seamstresses to special effects wizards -- who made the movies magical for millions.