Larry Habegger

1. ECUADOR Maintenance work on the runway at Guayaquil's Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Airport will force the airport to close on four weekends in November and December. Closures will run...

1. FIJI The state of emergency imposed last month when deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase returned to Suva was lifted Oct. 6 because, according to a military spokesman, there was...

1. CHINA Smoking is now banned in Beijing's taxis as officials try to clean up the city ahead of next year's Olympics. The ban affects both drivers and passengers. A...

1. AUSTRALIA Men posing as police in the Sydney district of The Rocks swindled tourists out of thousands of dollars by persuading them to hand over their passports and credit...

1. HAITI The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince now prohibits all U.S. government personnel from flying on Haiti's Caribintair Airlines and warns travelers to avoid the carrier. The airline has had...

1. AUSTRALIA Travelers on organized tours will be spared a ban on alcohol on Aboriginal-owned land. The strict ban was scheduled to go into effect Sept. 14, and after protests...

1. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Virunga National Park, home of the rare mountain gorillas in eastern Congo on the borders with Uganda and Rwanda, has been overrun by a rebel...

1. AUSTRALIA A ban on alcohol on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory will affect travelers visiting such iconic sites as Uluru (Ayers Rock) when it goes into effect Sept....

1. CARIBBEAN Category 5 Hurricane Dean churned through the Caribbean and Mexico Aug. 19-22 causing extensive property damage but generally sparing tourism facilities. Jamaica took a glancing blow, with the...

1. CANADA Aggressive panhandling took the life of a man near downtown Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park. He and a friend were walking just after midnight Aug. 11 when accosted by...