Macau

Video: Winners and Losers

It took less than five years for Macau's gambling revenue to surpass that of Las Vegas, but not everyone is getting rich in the casino boom

Las Vegas

The Southwest's Next Dust Bowl?

The massive man-made reservoir supplies 90% of Las Vegas' water — and it's drying up. The growing Southwest tries to do more while drinking less

London

Heathrow's Down-and-Out Jet Set

Disguised in floral shirts and fanny packs, scores of the "delayed passengers" sleeping at Europe's largest airport at night are actually homeless people

Sao Paulo

(Not Such) Bad Boys

Brazil's police have a fearsome reputation, but new policing methods inspired by New York's have helped cut crime and build goodwill

Salisbury Plain

The Not-So-Silent Stones

Stonehenge may be a mecca for tourists and seekers, but their reverie is disrupted by the noise from two highways

Beijing

St. Patrick in the Middle Kingdom

Shamrock green eclipsed communist red near the Forbidden City as the Chinese capital staged its first ever St. Patrick's Day Parade

Rome

Berlusconi to Italy: Come On, You Know You Want To

The enduring allure of a twice, and possibly future, Prime Minister

Buenos Aires

A Playboy Model's Cinderella Story

How a former kindergarten teacher used her role as a crime buster to launch a showbiz career from the cover of the girlie magazine

London

Fearful of Waning, Gordon Brown Seeks Waxing

Dispelling rumors of a snub, Madame Tussaud's invites Britain's Prime Minister to join its pantheon of mannequins. Now, he'll face the battle to stay out of its storage vaults

Chernobyl

Video: Vacation in Chernobyl

A tourist take on the site of the world's worst-ever nuclear meltdown

Nanaimo

How Google Earth Ate Our Town

The search engine has mapped virtually every block of this small Canadian coal town — though locals have responded with not much more than a shrug

Chiang Rai

The Right Recipe for Thailand?

Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returns to Thailand. Why one noodle-soup seller hails him as a hero

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