Race organizers Friday said a balloon carrying two missing Americans over the Adriatic Sea off Italy made a rapid descent during rough weather, conditions which would make their survival "unlikely."
It's a hot night out on the Croatian island of Hvar, just one stop on their cruise through the Adriatic Sea
The next Croatiaupdated: Tue Sep 18 2007 12:14:00
I was sitting on a Croatian beach a few years ago, staring in amazement at the glorious Adriatic Sea, when my traveling companion said, "If you think this is beautiful, you should see Montenegro someday." That day finally arrived this summer, when my friend Leslie and I decided to celebrate her birthday with a trip to the small country north of Albania and south of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A passenger train has derailed and plunged down an embankment outside Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, on Monday, killing 41 people aboard and injuring more than 180 others, a government spokeswoman has said.
Twenty people were killed when a speedboat carrying a group of Albanians capsized in stormy seas off the coastal city of Vlora.
Watching Iridium's satellites get blown to smithereens is a fitting end to the disastrous project but hardly the most creative. The $5 billion network of 66 satellites was supposed to provide world...
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