Cruises get good buzz from new ships, overhauls
NEW YORK (AP) -- The 2013 cruise season began with a nightmare: A Carnival ship adrift with no power. But in the last month or so, several cruise companies - including Carnival - have announced major overhauls to old ships and exciting innovations on new ships, from engineering upgrades to theme park-style rides....
A cruise ship fitness class designed by Rockettes
ABOARD NORWEGIAN BREAKAWAY (AP) -- I'd been at sea on Norwegian Cruise Line's new ship, Norwegian Breakaway, for more than 14 hours but I didn't feel the ship moving until I tried to do a dance move with the Rockettes....
Buenos Aires launches tours for Argentine pope
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend and where he went for a haircut....
Airlines collected record baggage fees in 2012
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. airlines collected more than $6 billion in baggage and reservation change fees from passengers last year - the highest amount since the fees became common five years ago....
Unlikely tourist ride: Rio shantytown cable car
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Tiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola, giggling from nerves as the doors slid shut, the ground dropped precipitously beneath her feet and she sailed off over the conglomerate of bare-brick shacks that is the Alemao complex of shantytowns....
