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 | Hearings to discuss new bus routes
Ohio, photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
| Metro bus riders in Summit County: Prepare for changes next year. | Nearly all routes and timetables will change on Jan. 18, with the opening of Metro Regional Transit Authority's $17 million transit center in downtown Akron. | The glass and steel facility at South Broadway and East Bartges Street is where all bus transfers will be made. | Metro ...
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 | Stream of visitors from Riyadh head to Makkah, Madinah
Arab News, photo: WN / fouad
| Mohammed Rasooldeen I Arab News | RIYADH: Many people from the capital have left for Makkah and Madinah in the first three days of Ramadan. Besides people traveling by air, more than 75 luxury buses left for the two holy cities on Wednesday afternoon. | The unusual rush can be attributed to Muslims wanting to spend more days of the holy month in ...
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 | Vijay Mallya flies into London
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| Vijay Mallya, the chairman of United Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines, is known for his huge wealth and businesses in India, as well as his Bollywood-esque flamboyant dress sense and lavish parties on his yacht. But, to date, his airline has never given global airline bosses reason to sit up and take notice. | This all changed yesterday wh...
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» NJ: Chains sold old drugs, baby formula
Philadelphia Daily News | The Associated Press | NEWARK, N.J. - Consumer affairs officials in New Jersey say Wal-Mart, Target and Drug Fair sold baby formula and nonprescription drugs after their sell-by dates. | The state also alleges the companies charged more for back-to... |
» NIIT Tech eyes travel, insurance sectors for growth
The Times of India | MUMBAI: Software services provider NIIT Technologies Ltd is eyeing the travel and insurance sectors for growth, Arvind Thakur, chief executive officer, told a private TV news channel on F... |
» Reduced travel time on revamped bus route in Bronx
Newsday | NEW YORK - Transit official say experimental bus service on a route in the Bronx has cut travel time. | The Bx12 route was revamped in July to reduce travel times by requiring riders to pay fares at curbside machines before boarding to shorten time... |
» A little white lie-in
The Guardian Forget the race for the Washington White House and check in to Devon's own, with its enormous beds and daily cream teas | Race for the Whitehouse bed ... a hotel home to big beds, big baths and homely food | The anticipation of spending a night in a ... |
» Travel quiz: Do you know your capitals?
The Guardian | Test your knowledge of world capital cities | We know you're not daft enough to think Australia's capital is Sydney, but do you know how Canberra got its name? Photograph: Randal Fung/ Corbis | ... |
» A look at 'the other side of life'
Chicago Sun-Times | Luther the Jet hasn't hopped a freight train in almost a decade. | It was 1999 when he and Connecticut Shorty sat over a meal in Chicago's Pullman Historic District, their wanderlust growing. » | She persuaded Luther to join her on a ride tha... |
» Sailing Away Down East in Maine
The New York Times | CAMPING has never been my thing. Enlarge This Image Dennis Welsh for The New York Times | UNDER WAY The Angelique, with passengers and crew, skims across Penobscot Bay in Maine. More Photos » Multimedia Slide Show Uncharted Waters | I poked ... |
» All about event marketing!
TravelDailyNews Preparations for ExporamaShow 2008, the Mediterranean special event for Exhibitions, Conferences and Corporate Meetings are full steam ahead and the organizers, Exporama Crossmedia, have every reason to believe that the second edition of the event wi... |
» Voting for OAG-Routes Airport Marketing Awards now open
TravelDailyNews Routes announced that the voting for this year's OAG-Routes Airport Marketing Awards is officially underway. Once again airports from all corners of the globe will be rewarded and acknowledged for their excellence in air service development. Sponsore... |
» Big bailout needed for Air India as losses mount
TravelDailyNews Air India confirmed in mid-Aug-08 that it would seek a minimum of INR20 billion (USD458 million) in fresh equity and soft loans from the Indian Government shortly, to fund its increasingly demanding working capital requirements. Chairman & Managing D... |
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