The night train from Cairo to Luxor was packed with people, many of them families with children, travelling from the…
On November 12 2001 most of the passengers flying to the Dominican Republic from JFK Airport were of Dominican descent;…
The iconic, supersonic aircraft Concorde was a remarkable engineering feat. Although no longer in service, no other passenger aircraft has…
The Ladbroke Grove rail crash, sometimes known as the Paddington train crash, occurred at 08.08 on October 5 1999. The…
The Macdonald-Cartier Freeway, or Highway 401, is the busiest freeway in North America. Starting just outside Windsor, Ontario, it ends…
In 1954 a national charter was ratified by the French and Italian governments for the construction of a tunnel running…
The last 32 UEFA cup match between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem was hardly one to capture the imagination of the…
Named after George Karaiskakis, a hero in the 19th century Greek War of Independence, the Karaiskakis Stadium was the velodrome…
It is usual to describe the survivors of accidents as ‘lucky’, but in the case of the ill-fated Uruguayan college…
On a dark winter’s evening in 1951 a 52-strong company of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps set out to…