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Paying for Bathrooms? Spirit CEO Says No, But.... - Spirit Airlines says new carry-on baggage fees help reduce overall fares.



Spirit Airlines - Airline - United States - Luggage - Business

The Secret Tip to Getting Pregnant? - One of the strangest suggestions for helping to get pregnant comes from Ripley's Believe It or Not. This Mothers' Day consider a trip to one of the oddest destinations.



Ripley - United States - Recreation - Organizations - Counties

Megacity Life: A Look Into the Future - By 2050, 7 out of 10 people will live in megacities, offering the benefits of concentrated living but also some of the biggest public-works challenges in human history.



History of the world - Public works - Health - Shopping - Canada

Obama's High-Flying Airline Crackdown - The federal government has taken a much more active role under President Obama's administration in regulating the airlines and imposing fines for both consumer and safety violations. The get-tough approach has led to millions of extra dollars in sanctions and more pro-passenger rules, such as the recent tarmac delay limits.



Federal Aviation Administration - United States - President - Airline - Electronics

Fla. Tourism Officials Try to Quell Oil Concerns - Fla. tourism officials are trying to tell would-be visitors there is no oil on state beaches




French Subs Close On Air France Black Boxes - New analysis of data recovered last summer narrows black-box search zone.




Enjoy South African Safaris During the World Cup - SAfrica boasts plenty of game through safari on the sidelines of the World Cup.



South Africa - World Cup - Soccer - FIFA World Cup - Sport

Google Moves Into Online Travel Business - Google, the world's most popular search engine, is expanding its reach in the lucrative online travel business.



Google - Web search engine - search engine - Searching - Business

The 10 Worst Airlines for Extra Fees - From checking bags to changing reservations, airlines across the county have been changing customers extra for all sorts of services. And it's paying off handsomely for them. See which airlines are the worst for passenger fees. Last year, U.S. airlines took in more than $7.8 billion in fees from passengers, according to the Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.



Airline - Low-cost carrier - Continental Airlines - United States - Transportation

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United Merger May 'Send Airfares Skyward' - Airline passengers across the country should brace for higher ticket prices and less flight options thanks to the expected merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines, according to several analysts. The newly-combined airline would be the world's largest and would unseat Delta Air Lines, which recently completed its merger with Northwest.



United States - Transportation - Recreation - Travel - Air

10 Great Places to Go Horseback Riding - Horse-racing season hoofed it into high gear with Saturday's Kentucky Derby.



Kentucky Derby - Horse racing - sport - Racing - Equestrian

WATCH: Apple Blossom Season Begins In Minnesota - A local apple producer says the early bloom is a good thing for the economy.



Apple - Macintosh - Apple II - Home - New England

It's a Riot! May Day Tourism in Berlin - The May 1 riots in Berlin's Kreuzberg district have become an annual ritual in the German capital. Now an American anti-capitalist activist has started giving tours of the neighborhood's hot spots to foreign visitors.



Berlin - Kreuzberg - United States - Anti-capitalism - Germany

WATCH: Robin's Flying High With Sully - Robin Roberts lives her dream of flying with hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger.



ChesleySullenberger - Aviation - HudsonRiver - US Airways Flight 1549 - US Airways

Gas Prices Expected to Stay in Check - Despite massive BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico, market rumors and onset of driving season, pain at the pump should be minimal with gasoline prices topping at around $3 per gallon




City Council Silences NYC Tour Buses - NYC Council passes law to quiet tour buses, replace loudspeaker with headphones.



City council - Oceania - Government - New York City - New Zealand

Cheap Vacation? Give the Hotel the Heave Ho - Rental homes and apartment swaps are two ways to avoid costly hotels and save money on your next vacation.



Vacation property - Travel and Tourism - United States - Lodging - Vacation rental

WATCH: Food Paparazzi: It's Their 'Porn' - Meet the people who mix their love of food with photography.



Photography - Business - Arts and Entertainment - Photographers - Recreation

Will Tarmac Rule Really Keep You Unstuck? - Starting Thursday, passengers stuck on a plane for three hours or longer must be given the chance to get off the airplane of the airlines are subject to giant fines. However, the airlines say the new government rule is going to cause massive delays and for them to cancel flights.



Business - Airport - Aviation - Transportation and Logistics - United States

Irish Airports Reopen Despite Atlantic Ash Cloud - Volcanic ash cloud menaces Ireland's west coast, but all airports reopen.



Ireland - Volcanic ash - Aer Lingus - Scotland - Iceland

WATCH: What All Inclusive Resorts Won't Tell You - AnnaMaria Andriotis with the 10 things all-inclusive resorts won't tell you.



Caribbean - Travel and Tourism - AllInclusiveResorts - Resort - Lodging

Small Manhood Jokes Lead to TSA Arrest - A Miami Transportation Security Administration screener was arrested this week after allegedly using an expandable police baton to beat up a co-worker in an airport parking lot. The reason for the assault: police said the victim and other TSA employees had been making fun of the size of the screener's genitals.



Police - Transportation Security Administration - Baton - Assault - Parking lot

Height of Fashion: The Skyscraper Shoe - Romanian shoe designer creates skyscraper sandal with a 12-inch heel.



Shoe - Sandal - Fashion - Footwear - Clothing

Scuba Tour of an Adriatic Shipwreck - The cold depths of the Adriatic Sea have yielded yet another bonanza -- and it's not fishing. Now, scuba divers will be able to plunge into the clear, astonishingly blue water of the Adriatic. There at the bottom, they'll find ancient treasures protected by a giant underwater safe. Hundreds of clay amphoras, the storage jars of antiquity, probably once filled with wine and oil, lie 30 meters (96 feet) down. They are among the valuable remnants of an ancient Greek shipwreck, off the coast of Croatian town of Cavtat, with an estimated value of 6 million euros (8 million $) in treasure. Boris Obradovic, the head of "Epidaurum" Scuba Diving Center, who found the shipwreck in 1999, and now guides experienced scuba divers down to the wreckage, says to ABC News.com that "Although the shipwreck is destroyed, the cargo of the wreck appears to be pristine." A striking video made by him and his team shows "a mixture of gray, brown and reddish amphoras much like they were placed shortly after the ship settled into the ooze." Some amphoras are encrusted with purplish sponges, others with algae and feathery hydroids. Marijan Orlic, leading underwater archaeologist and retired director of operations for Croatian Conservation Department, had the videotapes studied by nautical archaeologists. They tentatively identified the jars as typical of the African origin, near modern day Tunis, around the third century AD.



Shipwreck - Scuba diving - Adriatic Sea - Cavtat - Fish

Goodbye Continental, Hello Higher Airfares - Is the United-Continental merger good for you finding cheap airfare or flights out of your airport?




World's Best Small Cruise Ships - If you long for the open ocean but bristle at the thought of all-night discos, thousand-seat dining rooms or congested Caribbean ports-turned-duty-free-shopping-malls, know this: Not all cruise ships are vast, floating resorts. A diminutive but growing industry niche revolves around small vessels -- a wide-ranging group that includes yachts, rugged expedition ships and classic sailing schooners.



Ship - cruiseship - Travel - Caribbean - Yacht

Scandinavian Artist Masters Scratch and Sniff - Sissel Tolaas is difficult to label. She's an artist, chemist, odor theorist and smell missionary. Now she can add "magazine curator" to her CV. The current issue of MONO.KULTUR, an arts quarterly published in Berlin, features 12 of the scents she has produced in her Berlin lab. All you need to do is scratch and sniff. The Scandinavian smell expert, who has degrees in chemistry, art and language, is on something of a mission to change the way we think about our olfactory capabilities. She argues that an appreciation of our sense of smell can allow us to live our lives to their full potential. "We can be nothing without the nose," she told SPIEGEL ONLINE in an interview. "The moment we stop breathing we are dead. With every breath we take in thousands of molecules." For 20 years, the Norwegian-born Tolaas has been engaged in researching odors, collecting an archive of some 6,700 smells in her West Berlin apartment and training her nose to not just detect scents but to remove her emotional baggage about notions of odors being good or bad. Her interdisciplinary research and conceptual approach has led her to put on art installations, work with universities on research projects and put her knowledge to commercial use. Tolaas argues that our sense of smell is "completely undervalued" compared to other senses. We rarely understand the information that comes through our noses, she says, and we lack the language to describe what we experience. Yet the very way we relate to our surroundings and each other can be primarily through smell. "Tolerance doesn't start with looking and hearing, with skin color or religion but with the smell, the nose," she argues.



Olfaction - West Berlin - Research - Magazine - Sense

When Airlines Get Nasty, Travelers Get Crafty - The recession hit the airlines hard, and their passengers harder. Travelers have borne the brunt of the airlines' desperate attempts to regain profitability.



Airline - Travel - United States - Recreation - Transportation

PHOTOS: World's Strangest Aircraft - The world's strangest aircraft include all sorts of planes, balloons and other ways to fly through the air.



Aircraft - Aviation - Business - Transportation and Logistics - Aerospace and Defense

PHOTOS: Armani Hotel Dubai -



Dubai - United Arab Emirates - Middle East - Burj Khalifa - Armani

PHOTOS: Pre-Flight Drinking? An Airport Biergarten - Some airplanes and airport lounges are so impressive, you may not want to leave.



Airports - Aviation - Transportation and Logistics - Business - United States

PHOTOS: World's Top 17 Eco-Friendly Trips - These environmentally-friendly vacations and trips will stun you without destroying the Earth.



Shopping - Home and Garden - Cleaning - Earth Day - Non-Toxic

PHOTOS: Spectacular Desert Escape - If what you need is a long walk in the desert, the Banyan Tree Al Wadi is the place to take it. The hotel officially opens this month in Ras Al Khaimah, a wealthy statelet of the United Arab Emirates. The Banyan Tree's canopied bedrooms and tented villas evoke all the romance of 1001 nights, outfitted with flat screen TVs and private plunge pools.



United Arab Emirates - Middle East - Ras al-Khaimah - Hotel - Travel and Tourism

PHOTOS: Versace's Mansion Now a Luxury Hotel - Miami has a new, over-the-top boutique called The Villa By Barton G. The "G" in the name of the 10-suite hotel -- each comes with its own butler – comes from the home's former owner, the late designer Gianni Versace.



Gianni Versace - Miami - Hotel - Travel and Tourism - Lodging

PHOTOS: 15 English-Speaking Foreign Escapes - There are plenty of foreign destinations that don't require you to learn a new language. Consider a stroll through the woods in springtime, a canoe safari on the Norfolk Broads, a day at the caber-tossing Highland Games or afternoon tea at a fancy hotel. Great Britain and Ireland have plenty to offer tourists.



Foreign language - Education - Language - Social Sciences - Linguistics

PHOTOS: Amazing World Travels of Peeps - National Geographic Traveler asked readers to submit photos of Peeps, those marshmallow treats, in far-flung places. Here is a look at the best Peeps in Places, starting with these that just got hitched by Elvis in a drive-through chapel in Vegas. The love birds just couldn't be happier.



Peeps - National Geographic Society - Marshmallow - Recreation - Travel

PHOTOS: The World's Strangest Hotels - Ever feel as if every hotel room looks like the last one you checked into? Next time, consider spicing up your travel by staying at one of these unique hotels, where style often trumps all else.



Hotel - Travel and Tourism - Lodging - Hotels and Motels - Accommodation

PHOTOS: Top Celebrity Honeymoon Destinations - See where the stars get away to relax at these top celebrity honeymoon destinations.



People - Celebrities - Travel - Recreation - Specialty Travel

PHOTOS: Lavish Mega-Yachts - These giant yachts are eye-turning behemoths that give their owners a luxurious way to travel on the high seas or just party.



Yacht - Boat - Business - Watercraft - Consumer Goods and Services

PHOTOS: World's Most Bizarre Road Signs - See the world;s most bizarre signs. These odd and strange road signs will make your head spin.



Traffic sign - Road - Business - Recreation - Signage

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PHOTOS: Nebraska's 'Peep Show' - Nearly 300 spectators filed through the city auditorium in the small town of York, Neb., on March 13 for the third annual Peep Show. It was a celebration of all things Peeps, with the main attraction being the 75 entries in the Peep-themed art show. The event drew several hundred spectators to the city auditorium in the town of 8,000 people.



Nebraska - Peeps - York - United States - Organizations

PHOTOS: Holy Week Around the World - Christians around the globe commemorate Holy Week.



Holy Week - Christianity - Religion and Spirituality - Vatican City - Jesus

PHOTOS: World's Most Extreme Travel Adventures - Travel Adventures Around the World



Travel - Recreation - Travelogues - Around the World - Tourism

WATCH: Naked Art Arouses Interest - A display at NYC's Museum of Modern Art bares all to the public.



Museum of Modern Art - Museum - New York City - Arts and Entertainment - Art Museums

WATCH: George's Moscow Diary - The 'GMA' anchor asks Russian citizens to explain their views of the country.



Russia - Moscow - Administrative Regions - Government - Travel and Tourism

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WATCH: Women Try to Board Plane With Dead Man - Two women arrested in Liverpool, England, for transporting a dead man.



Liverpool - England - Merseyside - Liverpool F.C. - Arts and Entertainment

WATCH: NASCAR Hall of Fame in Jeopardy - Officials say while money may be tight, the commitment for the hall is there.



Hall of fame - NASCAR Hall of Fame - NASCAR - Dale Earnhardt - Motorsports

WATCH: Spring-Breakers Killed on Road Trip - 4 teens from Arkansas were killed when their SUV went off a bridge.



Arkansas - United States - Little Rock Arkansas - Van Buren County Arkansas - Missouri