"Jetman" Yves Rossy talks to CNN about the feeling of flying and his admiration for Iron Man.
The French have always prided themselves on their maturity in matters of love and sex. For them, gossip is not news.
With its sprawling, sometimes tangled array of parts suppliers, assembly plants, logistics networks, and dealers, the auto industry is perhaps uniquely vulnerable to disasters, natural and otherwise.
CNN's Jim Boulden travels out to sea to witness the opening of the world's largest wind farm.
The world's largest offshore wind farm opened Thursday off the British coast, with 100 wind turbines capable of supplying enough electricity for 200,000 homes a year.
With more flights beginning to take off on schedule, airlines are attempting to clear the backlog of passengers who have been waiting for days because of the volcanic ash cloud over Europe.
Cathay Pacific has a hotline for travelers to register as priority passengers. CNN's Andrew Stevens reports.
As a volcanic ash cloud hung over parts of Europe on Thursday, weather experts said air travel in the region, and increasingly the world, will be affected by how the wind blows.
Britain is about to have a massive expansion in renewable energy after awarding licenses for nine offshore wind farms Friday.
Severe winter weather continued to cause transport chaos across much of the UK Thursday, while days of heavy snow and plummeting temperatures plunged Europe into a deep freeze.
Although conditions have improved at London's Gatwick Airport, CNN's Morgan Neill finds irate passengers remain.
Eurostar is running tests to try to figure out what caused an "unprecedented" six trains to break down, forcing the company to cancel all services this weekend, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
Eurostar canceled all service this weekend after severe wintry weather in northern France caused the breakdown of an "unprecedented" six trains, stranding thousands of passengers on both sides of the English Channel on the weekend before Christmas.
As the ferries dock at the Port of Dover after crossing the English Channel, the trucks pull in at a steady rate. Afghanistan's opium harvest can be traced right back to some of those trucks.
CNN's Paula Newton reports on the pipeline that delivers opium from the fields of Afghanistan to the rest of the world.
As the ferries dock at the Port of Dover after crossing the English Channel, the trucks pull in at a steady rate. Afghanistan's opium harvest can be traced right back to some of those trucks.
Europe is investing in its infrastructure, and travelers know the results are breathtaking. With the English Channel tunnel, trains speed from Big Ben to the Eiffel Tower in about 2.5 hours. You zip under the English Channel in 20 minutes ... looking out the window for fish.
Whether or not it had anything more dangerous than a cargo of timber on board, cargo ship Arctic Sea, which was found Monday after vanishing for two weeks, certainly carries the answers to an intriguing maritime mystery.
A ransom has been demanded for a missing Russian cargo ship which vanished two weeks ago after being involved in a suspected hijacking off the coast of Sweden last month, Finnish police told CNN Saturday.
CNN's Diana Magnay reports a cargo ship may have been hijacked and taken through the English Channel.
A 22-year-old man from Pakistan hopes to soon swim the English Channel with an American friend -- but first he's got to navigate the currents of bureaucracy.
A small boatload of graduate students endured seasickness, hypothermia and huge swells in a 16-hour swim across the English Channel to raise money for veterans on the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
Pubs and clubs in southwest England plan to hand out lollipops next week as a way to reduce noise when their customers head home, officials and pub owners said Friday.
A disabled British Army Major completes the London Marathon after two weeks on the course, as CNN's Asieh Namdar reports.
Last summer, Phil Packer was told he would probably never walk again. On Saturday, he plans to finish the London Marathon.
French fishermen suspended their blockade at three English Channel ports Thursday, allowing ferry traffic and freight to move through after two days of disruption, union leaders said.
Hundreds of tons of timber that fell from a Russian cargo ship in the English Channel this week has started washing up on shore prompting authorities to urge people not to take any of it home.
CNN's Phil Black reports a cargo ship's load of timber washed up on an English beach, delighting the locals.
Yves Rossy successfully flies across the English Channel while strapped to a jet pack. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Ex-pilot to fly across the English Channel with a jetpack stapped to his back, CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Train service through the Channel Tunnel between England and France is set to resume Saturday morning after authorities extinguished a fire that burned for nearly 22 hours, officials said.
Authorities on Thursday halted all traffic running through the 50-kilometer (30-mile) Chunnel after a fire broke out inside the tunnel, which runs between Britain and France underneath the English Channel, Eurotunnel and fire officials said.
A day of protests over pension reform plan brings train services across France to a halt.
Police on the picturesque island of Jersey in the English Channel detained a 68-year-old man Tuesday as part of their investigation into alleged abuses at a long-closed government-run children's home.
When the English inventor Henry Bessemmer launched his extravagant cure for sea-sickness in 1875 it must have seemed like a sure thing.
UK winter storm
updated: Tue Mar 11 2008 03:45:00
People across England are feeling the effect of a dangerous winter storm. CNN's Phil Black reports.
Severe weather caused travel chaos across Britain on Monday as strong winds and rain led to dozens of cancellations and delays at airports, ports and railway stations.
A powerful weather system hits Britain's southern coast. ITN's Rohit Kachroo reports.
Police are excavating several sites in the grounds of a former children's home on the English Channel island of Jersey as more allegations emerge of child abuse spanning several decades.
CNN's Phil Black reports on a child abuse scandal that took place in the most unexpected of places.
The bodies of two crewmen have been found and four more remain missing after a French fishing vessel went down in bad weather in the English Channel, a spokeswoman for a nearby Royal Navy air base said Monday.
Richard Branson pays tribute to a lost adventurer, who soared to new heights and took us along for the ride
A three-day shutdown brings the city's creaking transit system to its knees
Prince William's girlfriend, Kate Middleton, has pulled out of a charity fundraising race to France because of "safety" concerns.
One of Earth's largest-ever megafloods broke apart a strip of land connecting what is now Britain and France, permanently separating them, a new study says
Imagine a holiday where you come home with not only a tan, but also an enormous sense of achievement.
One of the most important parts of any business education program is teaching would-be executives how to conduct themselves in different commercial cultures.
Police in southwest England are struggling to stop looters from taking away goods that washed ashore from a cargo vessel stranded off the coast in a recent storm.
On the night of Oct. 31, 2002, Lionel Poilâne, France's most famous breadmaker, took the controls of his Augusta eight-seat helicopter and headed off to Brittany. The 57-year-old was in the process...
Not since the last Ice Age, over 8,000 years ago, had the United Kingdom been joined with mainland Europe.
In this extraordinary documentary, award-winning journalist Sorious Samura lives the life of an illegal immigrant, in an attempt to fully experience the reality of being one.
High oil prices. Inflation fears. Ballooning deficits. Guerrilla war. Bad news? Not for gold. The asset that shines in bad times has been on a tear recently, surpassing $500 an ounce, a level not s...
Hilary Lister, 33, suffers from a degenerative form of the disorder 'reflex sympathetic dystrophy'. In August 2005 she became the first quadriplegic sailor to cross the English Channel -- the longest solo voyage by a quadriplegic sailor.
Working shifts -- a reality for 30 percent of the workforce -- can mean greater flexibility for people to organize their personal lives.
Hundreds of veterans are making a "symbolic crossing" of the English Channel on their way to the D-Day commemorations in France.
D-Day: Key factsupdated: Tue Jun 01 2004 08:05:00
Following are key facts about D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Through a fog of nitrous oxide, I asked the endodontist about the toothpick-like thing he was about to put in my mouth. "That's a gutta-percha point," replied the doc. "We use them to fill up the r...
Money Magazine: Buysupdated: Tue Aug 01 2000 00:01:00
CHUNNEL VISION For the first time since the 1994 debut of the Eurostar, the train that speeds under the English Channel, round-trip tickets purchased in the U.S. are on sale. Until the end of the y...
Those Brits. As word spread that the sun would set on duty-free shopping June 30, her Majesty's subjects were packing onto day cruises to the French port of Calais for a last, glorious buying binge...
One of the costliest and most embarrassing sagas in the annals of French business is finally drawing to a close: Credit Lyonnais will be privatized this summer.
At the height of the Cold War, U.S. intelligence analysts studying spy satellite photos spotted a strange aircraft that appeared to be skimming the surface of the Caspian Sea at 500 mph. Three hund...
Fortune: THE BIG DIGupdated: Mon Jun 05 1989 00:01:00
Would you believe that the shortest trip from London to Paris may be by way of Boise, Idaho? That's the residence of construction consultant Jack Lemley, 54, who has been named CEO of Transmanche L...
-- The London stock market has hurdled one of the biggest barriers to constructing a tunnel under the English Channel. Investors in November agreed to buy the entire $626 million British portion of...
Q. I am over 55, and I plan to marry a widower whose house is up for sale. When my fiance, who is in his sixties, sells the house, he will take his one- time $125,000 capital-gains tax exclusion on...
Britain and France, after talking for 200 years about digging a tunnel under the English Channel, finally got around to asking for proposals from private industry (FORTUNE, January 6). In January t...
FOR THE THIRD TIME since Napoleon dreamed of a tunnel under the English Channel in 1802, Britain and France are considering a plan to link their countries by road or rail. But this time there's a d...
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