Full-body scanners producing images of airline passengers naked are to be introduced in America as part of a new scheme intended to promote a "stress-free airport experience".Just one week after increasing stress levels by demanding that all tourists be fingerprinted

Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river. No one was injured in the remote region.Glacier scientist Gino Casassa said the melting of the Colonia glacier,

Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatikan newspaper said Sunday. "For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with

The Valley of Geysers will now be under the round-the-clock observation: video cameras will be installed on the territory of the nature reserve in order to get full information about the current situation. The video data will be available both

The world's oldest known living tree, a conifer that first took root at the end of the last Ice Age, has been discovered in Sweden, researchers say. The visible portion of the 13-foot-tall (4-meter-tall) "Christmas tree" isn't ancient, but its

The king of avante-garde chefs is crowned once again the best in the world. Farron Adria, and his El Bulli restaurant, at Roses, on the Costa Brava, has taken the top award in the 2008 San Pellegrino world restaurants awards

from Antarctic waters with only 55 percent of its hunting target, the Japanese government said Monday. Whalers are to return with 551 minke whales - far less than the original plan to kill up to 935 minkes and 50 fin

Airport screeners are about to get new security training designed to help them think creatively about possible threats - including those they have never thought of."We have to prepare for attacks that don't fit our procedures," Transportation Security Administration Administrator

Nine new hotels with 1,352 rooms in total will be opened in St Petersburg in 2008. In 2009 hotel business companies are planning to build sixteen hotels with total number of rooms 2,581. Today there are 371 hotels (22,457 rooms)

The fans of extreme tourism have now an opportunity to raft along one of the major Russian rivers from Lake Baikal on a block of ice. Moreover, the rafting experts and safety professionals are sure that the trip is quite

The disenchanted opening of Heathrow's new Terminal still has customers furious over flight cancellations, luggage chaos and the long queues that were endured for several weeks.

Hundreds of unmapped villages have been discovered in a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rainforest, it has been revealed.Those embarking on gap year travel to the DRC could now have the opportunity to visit these unexplored pockets of culture, which

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is going to launch an important art project in the middle of May. Between May 18 and October 18 the Moscow-based museum will display copies of masterpieces from its collection right in the streets

The tourist camp "Biryzovaya Katun" located in the Republic of Altai will soon be turned into the round-the-year center for extreme tourism. While a tour will last from 7 to 10 days, the founders of the center intend to provide

Bet you didn't know that some people think French fries should really be called Belgian fries. The belief that fries were first invented in Belgium is so strong that quirky collector Eddy Van Belle has just opened the Friet Museum

According to the news agency Sever-Press (North Press), the Association of Russian Travel Agencies and the Association of Russian Polar Explorers will join their efforts to popularize the polar tourism. Nowadays, the North Pole is largely visited by scientists, researchers

The Association of Independent Tour Operators (Aito) is advising travellers to split their clothing between two bags to minimize the chances of arriving at their destination without anything to wear. Following problems with lost luggage at Heathrow, Aito suggests that

Australia has extended control of its continental shelf by nearly 1 million square miles (2.6 million square kilometers) under an agreement with the United Nations, Martin Ferguson, the country's resources minister, announced Monday. The expansion east, west, and south increases

An increasing number of tourists choose holiday destinations on the basis of the food that they offer.A survey of more than 22,000 Britons, conducted by the online retailer expedia.co.uk revealed that Hereford, Whitstable and Melton Mowbray rank among the top

A new public water bus route was launched in Kiev in late April. The water bus "Irina" (60 seat occupancy) will transport passengers from Hotel Slavutich via Predmostnaya Slobodka Beach, Rusanov embankment and to Hydropark metro station. The voyage will