Darjeeling is synonymous with high-quality black tea. There are 87 tea estates operating in the Darjeeling district, a region in a mountainous corner of India between Nepal and Bhutan.
The joint venture, a challenge to British Airways, aims to take advantage of an "open skies"agreement that will overhaul rules on flights between Europe and the United States next year.
Taxicabs in the U.S. capital will switch to meters from the current confusing zone system of calculating fares, the mayor of Washington D.C. announced Wednesday.
Not too long ago, options for visitors to the Brazilian Amazon region were limited. But now, responding to the international boom in ecological and adventure tourism, lodgings have sprung up all over the region in the past four or five years.
This small city sits Norway's borders with Russia to the east and Finland to the west. The banks and cafes on its central streets are busy on a summer weekday and its ferry docks are thick with cars bearing Finnish and Swedish plates.
A largely derelict railroad station has been reborn as the centerpiece of a £6 billion project that will bring Continental-style train speed and style into the center of London.
Thousands of German commuters jumped in their cars or packed buses on Friday, as hundreds of train drivers staged strikes in an effort to disrupt the nation's vast commuter network.
Faro is a fairy-tale land of quirky farmers and hobbit-like barns, of invisible gnomes and grazing cows, and the home of the late filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
From Saint-François-Xavier to Saint-Eustache to the Saint Denis Basilica, Paris's churches are a way into the history, culture and daily fabric of the city's life, overlooked even by Parisians themselves.
A General Electric shoe-scanning machine, rejected by the government, was supposed to enable airline passengers to pass through security with their shoes on.
