...growing sector for us,” said Karan Anand, an executive at New Delhi-based tour company Cox and King’s. “Older people with their pension sorted out often plan their lives around a yearly holiday to in...ng the sunset on Lake Vembanadu in Kumarakom, Kerala, southern India. (AFP-Yonhap News) At Humayun’s Tomb, a popular attraction in New Delhi, Giselle Deuve, 81, from France was exploring with a guide...

...p.” Since Wang and her husband Liu Shujin, 66, started trading their vegetables online, the couple’s income has more than doubled to between 20,000 and 30,000 yuan ($3,000-4,500) a year and life has ... A farmer uses fertilizer on her wheatland in Nanfenghuang village in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong province. (Xinhua-Yonhap news) The plight of China’s millions of farmers, whose incomes ...

MIAMI (AFP) ― U.S. scientists in the Florida Everglades are recruiting crocodiles and alligators in their fight to preserve the fragile wetlands by implanting satellite chips in their necks for the f...stimated 30,000 to 50,000 birds nest in the Everglades every year, a drastic reduction from the 1940s, when as many as 500,000 lived there, said Jerry Lorenz, of the Audobon of Florida, a conservation...

...ief State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley quit on Sunday after causing a stir by describing the U.S. military’s treatment of the suspected WikiLeaks leaker as “ridiculous” and “stupid,” pointed word...re,” the president said. He declined to elaborate when pressed on whether he disagreed with Crowley’s assessment. Crowley’s resignation statement said that his comments about Bradley’s pre-trial dete...

...to higher quality, more sustainable development with a greater emphasis on services and broader distribution of wealth. If carried out, the plan could drive a far-reaching transformation of the world’s second-largest economy from low-cost factory into a major consumer market. More consumer demand could help to boost imports, narrowing China’s trade surplus with the United States and other major economies. China also needs to shift money from companies to households, which could narrow the gulf between China’s poor majority and its rich ...

...N (AP) ― Frothy, film-inspired funfest “Legally Blonde: The Musical” won three big prizes at London’s Laurence Olivier theater awards, while Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Love Never Dies’’ went home empty-ha... popularity, a production of Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” at the Open Air Theatre in London’s Regent’s Park was named best musical revival. Winners in most categories are chosen by a panel of theater ...

...s of division surfaced last week in Egypt in three dramatic confrontations: Participants in a women’s march reportedly were “groped” by male bystanders; Coptic Christians clashed with Muslims followin...nstitutions of a new Egypt. The police became the enemy for the Tahrir Square protesters, and there’s still a lot of pent-up rage at Mubarak’s repressive state. But Egyptians want law and order, too, ...

...high his kid scored on the SAT? Then you might have Facebook envy. Since January, when the journal Personality and Social Psychiatry Bulletin published a paper about our perceptions of other people’s contentment levels, it’s the malady of the moment ― or at least the perfect catchphrase for describing the less-than-friendly feelings we harbor toward certain online acquaintances. Drawing on studies of Stanford students a...