31.03.2008
The digs at these hotels are every bit as strange as the dreams you’ll have when you lay your head on their pillows. (Word to the wise: They can be costly to visit, but our slide show is free.)
It’s called the Dark Ages for a reason. During medieval times, torture was a common practice. Castles were constructed to do more than simply house those in power; they were designed for imprisonment, torture and execution at the whim of whoever happened to be in power.
Of the 28,000 commercial airline flights that take to the skies on an average day in the United States, fewer than 1 percent are protected by on-board, armed federal air marshals, a nationwide CNN investigation has found.
A gun carried by a pilot discharged in mid-air during a packed flight over the Easter holiday, it has emerged. Officials in the United States have launched an immediate inquiry into the potentially disastrous incident. Luckily, none of the 124 passengers and five crew members on the flight from Denver to Charlotte, North Carolina, were injured