Tag: tourist

• Monday, October 28th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  California declares emergency as wildfires blaze across the state

  

  California's governor declared a state-wide emergency on Sunday as a huge wind-fuelled blaze forced evacuations and massive power blackouts, threatening tourist towns in the state's famed Sonoma wine region.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:02 UTC

  A US$ 840.000 Swiss watch nabbing in Paris; 71 such robberies this year

  

  A Japanese man who stepped out of his Paris hotel for a cigarette was robbed of his US$840,000 Swiss watch by a thief who snatched it off his wrist, police sources said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 18:13 UTC

  Reported shark attacks increased globally 25% during 2010

  

  The number of reported shark attacks in 2010 increased globally but declined in the state of Florida, the shark capital of the world, according to an annual report released Monday by the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File.