Venice will deploy stewards in Saint Mark's square to prevent tourists from stripping off their T-shirts, taking a nap or dropping fast-food wrappers in the piazza that Napoleon dubbed 'the drawing room of Europe'. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Happy tourists visiting the wildlife park in Japan might have thought they were treating the monkeys.

But they have left many of them so overweight they can hardly get around. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Doing virtual reality one better, a consortium of technology companies and European Union countries have created a "visual time machine" that allows tourists equipped with a smart phone to take a picture of an ancient object and then instantly review its history and see what it originally looked like. picked by kakana 4 months ago

Gibraltar's iconic monkeys are facing a cull after terrorising tourists on the British colony. picked by topofall 2 years ago

Eco-tourists on a whale-watching vessel, looking forward to observing the mighty creatures in their natural habitat, were instead greeted by the sight of a harpooned whale being dragged in by a Japanese whaling vessel on Friday. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

explains itself.. so before you go to the website guess who there talking about.
One-hundred thirteen people think this is the Best Superhero
Even without superpowers, ?????? is the greatest superhero of them all
who do think?? picked by spocksmyhomeboy 2 years ago

Gold, silver, and bronze medals were won in 91 categories of beer judged in the 2008 World Beer Cup competition held this past weekend in San Diego, CA. Additionally, the five best breweries in the world were named, including the first woman brewer ever to win this award! picked by icepigs 2 years ago

I guess he had nothing better to do than dress up as an 80's movie character and badger tourists... picked by Browntrout 3 years ago

For more than 160 years the Trappist monks at Saint Sixtus monastery in Flanders have been producing a rich, dark-brown, beer renowned for its exceptional flavour and strength. But an unexpected misfortune has befallen this reclusive community of 26 Cistercians: their beer has been named the best in the world. picked by tragluk 2 years ago

Assaults on American tourists have brought hard times to hotels and restaurants that dot Mexican beaches just south of the border from San Diego. picked by tchengrox 2 years ago

Mercer Consulting's annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

For those who just can't get enough of US president-elect Barack Obama, a Japanese mask-maker is giving thousands of people the chance to be his spitting image. Ogawa Rubber Inc., Japan's top rubber mask studio, is moving into high gear and is manufacturing more than 300 masks of the next US president each day ahead of his inauguration on January 20. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Manga diary of the Japanese WWII prisoner in the USSR. Interestingly, descriptions in languages other than English are a lot more detailed. picked by MissWinkle 1 year ago

Japanese researchers said Thursday they had created functioning human brain tissues from stem cells, a world first that has raised new hopes for the treatment of disease. picked by karenben 1 year ago

WASHINGTON - Just days after Americans honored the 200th anniversary of his birth, 65 historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as the best U.S. president. picked by iamamaniac 10 months ago

Internet nominations and over 100 million votes means that MTV now recognise Rick Astley as the Best Act Ever.

If you voted and he takes his tour to your town, you only have yourself to blame. picked by pocksucket 1 year ago

Japanese scientists will have bred a new "super-tuna" within a decade that will be stronger, more resistant to disease and taste better than the bluefin presently in the oceans. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Could your best friend make you fat?

Researchers who have studied "networks" of obesity think so: they found that if someone's friend becomes obese, that person's chances of becoming obese increase by more than half. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

These heartbreaking photos of a mother whale and her calf being dragged to their death by Japanese whalers have been released by the Australian government and greeted with fury by the public. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Over the coming months, thousands of dolphins - some only a few days old - will be hacked to death.
The dolphin meat is so toxic because the seas around Japan have become a soup of industrial wastes. These poisons become concentrated in fish, which the dolphins then eat. And when the Japanese eat the dolphins, they progressively poison themselves. picked by kakana 3 months ago