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A ferry hit a humpback whale near Seattle and the Coast Guard initially searched for the animal after passengers reported it was injured and bleeding. The whale surfaced Tuesday about five feet (1.5 meters) in front of the M/V Wenatchee during its morning trip from Seattle to Bainbridge Island across Puget Sound. The crew at […]

A Renovated Rowhouse in Antwerp $1.5 MILLION (1.35 MILLION EUROS) This four-bedroom townhouse is on a tree-lined avenue in the upscale neighborhood of Markgrave, about two miles south of the historic center of Antwerp, Belgium. Built in 1912 and renovated in phases through 2017, the 4,300-square-foot house has a mansard roof, terraces in the front

In Paris, the Louvre Museum closed for a day this week because workers said the crowds were too big to handle. In the Himalayas, climbers at Mount Everest are concerned that the peak has gotten too crowded, contributing to the highest death toll in years. Interested in Travel? Add Travel as an interest to stay

Tony Horwitz earned his Pulitzer Prize in 1995, reporting for The Wall Street Journal on the bleak and awful working conditions of America’s low-wage earners — embedding himself in a poultry plant alongside those toiling on the risky, gruesome “disassembly lines,” and capturing the harrowing monotony of the silent “cage” where workers opened envelopes for

The Louvre museum in Paris has reopened to the public after it was closed for one day Monday, when workers complaining about overcrowding walked out. Union representatives met Wednesday morning and decided to reopen the museum at 11am, some two hours after its regular opening time. Hundreds of frustrated tourists, who had been waiting several

New Yorkers, get ready for another chance to marvel at Manhattanhenge. For two days every spring and summer, the sunset lines up with Manhattan’s street grid, creating a gorgeous celestial spectacle. For a brief moment, the sun’s golden rays illuminate the city’s buildings and traffic with a breathtaking glow. “It’s the best sunset picture of

Scaling Mount Everest was a dream few realized before Nepal opened its side of the mountain to commercial climbing a half-century ago. This year the government issued a record number of permits, leading to traffic jams on the world’s highest peak that likely contributed to the greatest death toll in four years. As the allure

When Lonnie Bunch started working on the Smithsonian’s first black museum, he had no collection, no building and one employee. The Smithsonian Institution rewarded the founding director of the wildly popular museum on Tuesday by putting him in charge of all 19 of its museums, making Bunch the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Bunch,

In 1848, the British East India Company gave the botanist Robert Fortune a mission: smuggle live tea bushes out of China against the emperor’s strict edicts and plant them in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal, to propagate a new tea industry under British control. The heist took years. The plants struggled to flourish in

The New York Times travel department is rife with parents. We love travel, we love our children and we love traveling with our children. Until we don’t. We know as well as any that even the best-intentioned child can wreck havoc on the most thought-out travel plans, a dream vacation turned into a horror show