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LOS ANGELES – Authorities said broken toilets forced a Honolulu-bound jetliner to divert to Los Angeles International Airport. An American Airlines spokeswoman said Flight 005 took off from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Sunday morning on a scheduled 8 1/2 -hour nonstop flight to Hawaii. It landed at LAX at about …

RICHMOND, Va. – Southwest Airlines says one of its planes veered off the taxiway after landing at Richmond International Airport in Virginia. The airline says in a statement that Flight 4636 was transitioning to the gate when it left the taxiway early Monday and went into the grass. No injuries …

Archaeologists in Alexandria, Egypt, recently recovered the ruins and relics of a 2,000-year-old city. Divers plunged into the waters off the Abu Qir Bay, pulling out various artifacts and revealing building structures. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary-General Mohamed Ismailtold Reuters the artifacts date back to successive periods starting from …

Las Vegas tourism continues to decline as fresh numbers reveal that fewer visitors are traveling to Sin City. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) recently released its numbers for July visitors, noting a 12% drop from last year. There were 3,089,300 visitors this July compared to over 3.5 …

A rare cross was recently uncovered in the United Arab Emirates, shedding light on Christian history during the early Islamic era. The discovery, made at Sir Bani Yas Island in the Persian Gulf, was announced by Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism in August. The island contains a variety …

Thieves recently targeted a prominent cultural institution in Wales, stealing precious ancient jewelry from its gallery, officials said. St. Fagans National Museum, one of the most visited museums in the Welsh capital of Cardiff, was broken into at around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 6. The open-air museum is on the …

Visitors at the San Diego Zoo in California were left in shock over the weekend after an animal went bananas. A male gorilla charged his habitat, shattering one layer of the three-layer glass window. Dramatic video shows the moment the western lowland gorillastormed the tempered glass on Saturday. MEDIEVAL SHOE …

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom recently unearthed ancient relics beneath a bustling marketplace — including the remains of a “vile” dungeon. Announcing the discovery in a Sept. 23 press release, officials at the University of Leicester said the dig yielded “extraordinary evidence of 2,000 years of human activity” in Leicester’s …

A British family uncovered a treasure trove in their own backyard — and now it’s going under the hammer for a whopping six-figure sum. The lot is being sold by coin dealer David Guest Numismatics. It will be auctioned in Zurich, Switzerland, on Nov. 5., and is expected to fetch …

The world-renowned Eiffel Tower in Paris shut its doors on locals and international tourists on Thursday amid a nationwide strike. As crowds of protesters marched from Place d’Italie toward the Eiffel Tower, the tower’s management announced in a statement that the landmark was closed to visitors due to the strike, …