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VANCOUVER - Lose weight. Get organized. Exercise more. Quit smoking. Learn French. Volunteer. There's a lot of pressure in a new year. But not all resolutions require quite so much ...

JORHAT, India - "This is your own home now," announces our host, welcoming us to Thengal Manor.

MIAMI - Five Jamaicans who said they had been drifting on a small boat in the Caribbean for three weeks were rescued Monday by a cruise ship, authorities said.

WEST GLACIER, Mont. - National parks must do a better job of attracting more minority visitors and employees or else risk becoming irrelevant in the future, the retiring superintendent of Glacier National Park said.

REGINA - Snow falls across Saskatchewan and, with a roar, snowmobiles spring to life, ready to charge down more than 10,000 kilometres of groomed trails.

While I am in transit for a Christmas river cruise on the Danube I asked our Ports and Bows backup team Bob and Nancy Dunn to report on the launch in Florida of the final Solstice Class ship, the Reflection. Here is their report.

NEW YORK From memoirs and maps to beautiful hard-covers suitable for coffee-table display, here are some ideas for holiday gifts from this year’s crop of travel books and publications. (Prices shown are cover list prices.

OSLO — Oslo dresses up in white lights ahead of Christmas, but keeps the spirit of the season partly under wraps, as befits a reserved Nordic capital with a winter shroud of darkness and some of Europe’s highest food and drink prices.

It’s hard to top Barcelona, Spain’s most cosmopolitan and fun city. I love the place, and I’m not alone.