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MEXICO CITY - Mexico's top tourism official said the country may drop out of the world's top 10 tourist destinations, a spot it has held for years.

PERRY GREEN, England - Henry Moore has company on his muddy home turf. At the late British artist's former home in the English countryside, swooping sculptures sit on rain-sodden fields, and sheep graze at the base of monumental bronzes.

WASHINGTON - The future of a planned memorial honouring President Dwight D. Eisenhower was thrown into doubt Tuesday as lawmakers questioned the project's design and cost and Ike's family called again for the memorial project to be redesigned.

The CEOs of American Airlines and US Airways reassured a Senate panel Tuesday that their merger would not lead to fewer flights or lost jobs in the lawmakers' states.

ROME - When a future pope needed new soles, he strolled to a shoe repair shop practically around the corner from the Vatican. When he was pope and nearing retirement, he had the same shoemaker craft a pair of comfy, calfskin slippers.

DUBLIN - There's finally some good news for Boeing: European discount airline Ryanair announced Tuesday that it will buy 175 of the company's popular 737 jets, the largest order ever placed by a European carrier. Chicago-based Boeing Co.

WASHINGTON - As Boeing, its airline customers and federal safety regulators struggled over the past two months to solve problems with the new 787 Dreamliner's fire-plagued batteries, one player has been strangely silent: Congress.

GULMARG, India - There are very few ski resorts in the world where you see a soldier in uniform waiting for the gondola with a snowboard in one hand and an AK-47 in the other.

ROSS ISLAND, Antarctica - Across most of Earth, a tourist attraction that sees 35,000 visitors a year can safely be labeled sleepy. But when it's Antarctica, every footstep matters.

PARIS - Airbus signed its biggest deal ever on Monday, an order from Indonesian's Lion Air worth €18.4 billion ($24 billion) that President Francois Hollande said should inspire the struggling French economy and all of Europe.