The two Russian men charged in Britain with poisoning a former Russian spy with a deadly nerve agent appeared on Kremlin-funded television on Thursday, denying their involvement in the attack and saying that their appearance in the English city of Salisbury was merely an “incredible, fatal coincidence.”
Read moreA state appeals court has upheld the California Coastal Commission’s decision to require affordable accommodations in connection to a proposed 175-room hotel on the San Diego Bay.
Read moreHackers obtained the credit card details of some 380,000 British Airways travelers during a two-week data breach this summer that leaves the customers vulnerable to financial fraud, the airline says.
Read moreFederal prosecutors say in court filings that the U.S. Coast Guard found probable cause that the captain of a tourist boat that sank in Missouri, killing 17 people, committed misconduct, negligence or was inattentive to his duties.
Read moreTour operator Thomas Cook is evacuating all of its customers from a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada after two Britons died there this week under unclear circumstances.
Read moreContesting plans to build a new hotel in the East Village, the nonprofit responsible for the Old Merchants House says in court that the development deal threatens “a veritable time capsule” of 19th century New York City life.
Read moreJoined by a handful of survivors, the father of the young tourist who was killed in Times Square last year by a car that sped for three blocks on the sidewalk brought a lawsuit Tuesday against the arrested driver and the city.
Read moreFamily members of victims filed a $100 million federal lawsuit Sunday against the owners and operators of a defective duck boat that sank and dragged 17 people to their deaths at the bottom of a Missouri lake less than two weeks ago.
Read moreNorwegian authorities are defending the actions of guards from a German cruise ship that killed a polar bear that had attacked and injured a crew member, saying they at first tried to scare it away.
Read moreTourists arriving in Barcelona are facing long lines and jam-packed buses and subways as the city’s taxis went on strike for a second day.
Read moreDirectors are selling ILG Inc. too cheaply through an unfair process to Marriott Vacations Worldwide, for $4.7 billion, shareholders say in a federal class action.
Read moreThe Mount Agung volcano on Bali shot ash 6,600 feet into the atmosphere Thursday, disrupting the travel plans of thousands as several airlines canceled flights from the Indonesian tourist island.
Read moreItaly’s coastlines are among the most famous and beloved in the world, and the reason why tourists flock with abandon to places like Monopoli, a walled city on the Adriatic Sea each summer. But Monopolitan fishermen and others worry that that government’s new plans to allow offshore drilling could ruin their livelihood and the tourism from which so many coastal residents make their living.
Read moreThe European General Court backed the government of France on Tuesday in its challenge to the trademark registration of a travel company called France.com.
Read moreA Florida woman claims in court she was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight after a white passenger seated next to her claimed to be allergic to black people.
Read moreTens of thousands of Tanzania’s ethnic Maasai people are homeless after the government burned their houses to keep the savannah open for tourism benefiting two foreign safari companies, a U.S.-based policy think tank charged Thursday.
Read moreFrench prosecutors have charged a 36-year-old man with threatening to attack security services at Mont Saint-Michel, one of the country’s most-visited tourist sites.
Read moreThe initial boon that the British travel and tourism sector got from the country’s vote to leave the European Union appears to be wearing off.
Read moreNorth Carolina asked the Fourth Circuit on Thursday to reverse a ruling that said the state pirated stock footage shot by a Virginia company of the 18th century pirate ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge.
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French customs officers have found an impressionist painting by Edgar Degas stowed on a bus, more than eight years after it was reported stolen.
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