The Egyptian junta has said they're going to put 43 workers for Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO's) on trial including 19 Americans for 'illegal activities' and ' illegally receiving foreign funds.' One of them is Sam LaHood, the son of Arab-American Obama Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. A travel ban has been imposed and their passports collected to keep them f...

Taliban representatives in Pakistan allowed to travel to Qatar

I’ve got a new little netbook to travel with. And the littel bastard just keeps running out of memory. I’m already running Firefox without downloading images. And that seems to take 250 MB or so of the 1GB RAM available. As far as I can tell cache is set  to 4096. I really shouldn’t be

An Aberdeen councillor who was appointed the city's depute provost aged just 18 is to quit politics to travel.

Well, it's about time someone admitted it. “For the last three years, the Palestinians have refused to enter negotiations, thinking they could impose preconditions upon us,” Netanyahu told Israeli lawmakers in a closed parliamentary meeting. “The Palestinians have no interest in entering peace talks. I’m ready to travel now to Ramallah to start peace talks with Abu Maz...

Former prime minister Tony Blair's expenses bill was revealed by The Sunday Telegraph last week to be over £8 million. Sources say a huge amount is spent on foreign travel by him and his team; here we chart just how extensive his travels have been.

A huge amount of the former Prime Minister's £8m expenses is said to have gone on foreign travel by him and his team; Josie Ensor charts just how extensive his travels have been.

Yesterday’s announcement about High Speed 2 was given more significance by the media than perhaps it deserved. The route of the track from Birmingham to Leeds and Manchester, and the sites for the stations on the northern lines, remains to be finalised. If all goes according to plan the first passangers could travel on the

Labour Harrow Road Councillors and GLA member Murad Qureshi have urged residents to make their views known on the proposal by Crossrail to allow up to 70 lorries per day to travel along Harrow Road and right onto Great Western Road, W9. Councillors say that this proposal will have a devastating impact on the area and on other parts of London for the following reasons: * The area is surrounded by a...

Labour today accused the Government of total hypocrisy for failing to ensure a Boxing Day rail service. In opposition the Conservatives routinely complained about the lack of trains running on one of the busiest travel days of the year. But the Conservative-led Government have taken no action to get a rail service on Boxing Day. John Woodcock MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Minister, said: "Th...