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Swiss rescue officials say they have found two missing skiers after spotting the light from their MP3 music player.
The Swiss air rescue association Rega says it received a distress call from the French tourists late on Friday but the skiers’ phone battery went dead before they could be reached.
Rega spokesman Gery Baumann says the two men were eventually found after midnight in steep, wooded terrain by a helicopter crew that spotted the light from their digital music player.
Baumann said (more…)

A MIDAIR emergency involving a sick Qantas passenger forced the world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, to touch down in Fiji for the first time yesterday.
But what was supposed to be a quick turnaround became an overnight holiday in paradise after an onboard computer problem was unable to be fixed by local engineers.
Flight QF12, with 337 passengers on board, was 10 hours and 45 minutes into its journey from Los Angeles to Sydney when a male passenger apparently suffered diabetic (more…)

Squeals, coos, sighs: two Dutch tourists were in a paroxysm of ecstasy fingering a bank of frocks in front of them: a 1930s floor-length gown of peach shimmering silk, something Joan Crawford would have gladly worn; a scrim of 1970s printed wrap dresses; a handful of 1950s crinolines.
Stepping inside Corachán y Delgado is akin to walking onto a period film set or into your grandmother’s attic if your grandmother was Audrey Hepburn and she had preserved all her clothes and accessories — as well (more…)

THE BASICS
The last time a new hotel caused such an uproar in Seville , it was 1929 and King Alfonso XIII had just inaugurated his namesake hotel for that year’s huge Ibero-American Expo. The new EME Fusion may have less regal origins, but it doesn’t skimp on style. A cluster of fourteen 18th- and 19th-century houses in the heart of Seville has been ingeniously cobbled together into a 70-room property. Shaded patios, a stunning rooftop pool terrace with a bar and drop-dead views of the cathedral, (more…)

“REMEMBER those?” I ask my 9-year-old son as we drive through the Javanese countryside. We are three abreast on a two-lane highway alongside a cement truck and a motorbike, all of us competing to pass a colorfully decorated bicycle rickshaw.
“They’re called becaks,” I say, surprised that the word had come back to me after all this time. “But when you were little, you thought they were called ‘big cats.’ ”
He cringes, as he often does, (more…)

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IT always starts as a craving: our yearning to go someplace new or the anticipation of revisiting a place we love.
Since we’ve been married, my husband, Marc, and I have tried to take a European vacation every year in the late fall or early winter. For us, there’s something about Europe during that time of year, when the light is gray and brooding and the city we’ve chosen feels like it’s (more…)

As captivating as the temples of Angkor may be, Cambodia's scorching sun, gritty air and pot-holed roads inevitably take their toll on even the hardiest travelers. Perhaps it's by necessity, then, that Siem Reap, the town that lodges and feeds Angkor's million annual visitors, has evolved into a chic haven of rest and relaxation. An international group of chefs has set up the country's finest tables there, and bartenders in the vibrant night life are versed in sophisticated cocktails. (more…)

NEW YORK : The corks will pop as usual this holiday season, and the bubbly will froth over into the glasses. Toasts will be offered, and the good times will still roll, but perhaps in a more subdued fashion.
Fewer of those bottles of sparkling wine are likely to be Champagne this December, at least in the United States. All over the country, people are spending less for wine, and aiming for a lower-key expression of seasonal joy. That means less Champagne.
Partly, (more…)

The fall of 2008 will be remembered for the meltdown of the international banking system, but it's also been a great season for international art in Madrid, thanks to the free-spending ways of some of Spain's largest banks.
This is not another morality tale about self-aggrandizing corporate honchos trying to put their names on museum wings before pulling the cord on their golden parachutes. Rather, it's a case of old-fashioned social responsibility that has been codified into (more…)

HOWRAH STATION in Calcutta was packed with travelers as I arrived to catch the 3:30 p.m. train to Jangipur. Passengers and porters charged in all directions, some carrying their suitcases or cloth bundles in their hands, some with their baggage on their heads. One man with a chair; another with a stepladder. At my feet, someone was charging his cellphone on the station’s electricity supply. Our train drew up, and the man next to me suddenly threw himself head first through an open window. With (more…)