Posts Tagged ‘trip’

William and Kate skip ski trip

Prince William and Kate Middleton are passing up a planned ski trip — because of the downward slippery slope that many of their subjects find themselves in during these harsh economic times.

“The palace thinks it would send a bad message to be away during this time,” a source told Us Weekly.

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Cat stuck under hood survives road trip

A cat has survived a four-hour, 200-mile ride under the hood of a car traveling through Ohio. WJW-TV reports a man who’d left Xenia (ZEEN’-yuh) in southwest Ohio on a drive to Cleveland Sunday afternoon stopped at a rest area south of his destination when he smelled something.

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Walters said Syrian trip frightened her (AP)

In this undated image provided by ABC, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad poses with ABC News Anchor Barbara Walters for an interview airing Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, on ABC. Assad denied he ordered the deadly crackdown on a nearly 9-month-old uprising in his country, claiming he is not in charge of the troops behind the assault. Speaking to Walters in a rare interview that aired Wednesday, he maintained he did not give any commands 'to kill or be brutal.' (AP Photo/ABC, Rob Wallace)AP – President Bashar Assad’s first interview with a Western television journalist since a March uprising was a coup for Barbara Walters and ABC News, but not entirely for Assad.


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Analysis: Obama gets little pushback on Asia trip (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama walks as he attends the East Asia Summit at Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on Saturday Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP – An assertive President Barack Obama got much of what he wanted during his Asia-Pacific trip because the results didn’t depend on negotiating with the world.


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Obama cites jobs payoff from Asia trip (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama looks after attending the East Asia Summit at Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on Saturday Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP – After a nine-day trip through Asia in which he showed command on the world stage, President Barack Obama is headed back to debt-deadlocked Washington, where he’ll confront fresh reminders of the limits of his power at home.


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Obama heading back to DC after Asia trip (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama attends the retreat session of the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Romeo Gacad, Pool)AP – After a nine-day trip through Asia in which he showed command on the world stage, President Barack Obama is headed back to debt-deadlocked Washington, where he’ll confront fresh reminders of the limits of his power at home.


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Obama offers mortgage relief on western trip (AP)

CORRECTS YEAR - President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP – The Obama administration offered mortgage relief on Monday to hundreds of thousands of Americans in the latest attempt to ease the economic and political fallout of a housing crisis that has bedeviled President Barack Obama as he seeks a second term.


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