Everyone is familiar with the story, but very few are able to see the Titanic in real life -- unless they can shell out $60,000.
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Ophelia quickly ran out of steam over the cold Atlantic waters off Newfoundland on Monday, ending the storm's run as a hurricane as it swept past the Avalon Peninsula.
A weakened Hurricane Ophelia spun well off the coast of New England on Sunday night, appearing to pose no danger to the U.S. mainland but prompting threats to Newfoundland as it headed north-northeast.
Hurricane Maria neared landfall Friday afternoon in southern Newfoundland on its way to bringing 80 mph (130 kph) winds and heavy rain to the Canadian coastal province.
Parts of Mexico could get drenched with rain in the coming days as Tropical Depression Georgette is projected to make landfall Wednesday.
CNN's Reynolds Wolf reports from Bermuda as the island prepares itself for Hurricane Igor.
The storm previously known as Hurricane Igor sped past Newfoundland Tuesday, leaving behind downed trees, washed out roads and a desperate search for a missing elderly man.
Video from CNN iReporters show winds and rain from Hurricane Igor drenching Bermuda.
Just hours after the island took a beating from Hurricane Igor, blue skies returned to Bermuda Monday as the storm moved out into the Atlantic and toward Newfoundland, Canada.
CNN's Reynolds Wolf reports on Hurricane Igor as the storm slams into Bermuda.
Cinemagoers will be familiar with the thrill of giant waves.
A cruise ship struck by giant waves returns to port. CNN's Al Goodman reports.
They spent $886 million on security for the games. This is why there are over 500 soldiers stationed in Whistler for the games. Some of them hide in the backcountry, well-armed, watching. They wait for skiers to make the wrong turn and head toward the athlete village via the Whistler backcountry. The army has set up a trailer city near the athlete village complete with its own barbershop, movie theatre, and gym. Any would-be terrorist with mad backcountry ski skills knows it to be the easiest way in to the athlete village. This is why a small portion of Whistler's backcountry is in lock-down mode. There have been reports of snowboarders being intercepted in the backcountry by soldiers and diverted back to the village; of spotters in trees and soldiers lower down doing the dirty work.
Hurricane Bill spun northward toward the New England coast Saturday with wind and rain as officials warned beach lovers to head indoors for the night.
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There is something truly ugly about these NHL playoffs, something that has drawn a little comment here and there, inspired the occasional raised eyebrow, led to a snigger or two. It's something that, as it refuses to go away -- and in fact grows worse with each passing day -- needs to be addressed:
The search will continue until at least Friday night for 16 people missing since Thursday morning when a helicopter carrying them to an offshore oil platform ditched in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland, Canadian officials said.
Four British Coastguard helicopters of the same model as the one that crashed off Canada last week have been grounded in Scotland to replace a gearbox mounting part, and all those models worldwide are expected to be grounded as well.
Hope dimmed Friday as Canadian searchers combed the Atlantic Ocean for 16 people missing after a helicopter crash the previous day off Newfoundland.
Standing atop an island cliff, Ed English looks out over the Strait of Belle Isle. "In March," he says, "this looks like peppered porridge -- a sea of ice floes speckled with seals." Now, on a soft summer evening, it's a salty blue stew flecked with white froth from waves and breaching whales. In the distance float the glacial fragments that give this part of Newfoundland (newfun-LAND) its nickname: Iceberg Alley.
iReporter Bob Strong captured images of an iceberg breaking up at Quidividi, Newfoundland.
It is commonly said that we know more about the Moon than the deep blue sea.
New eco-fishing techniques can save Indonesia's precious underwater life. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
Plumped up and flying high, the newly mighty dollar is TIME's Canadian Newsmaker of the Year
Whether scaling a mountain or rounding a bend, nothing beats the sight of water from a hiking trail. Shore to shore, here are great spots for hitting the trail and seeing the coast.
When Danny Tuff was growing up in Newfoundland, his father often prodded him and his siblings to switch off the lights and turn down the heat. If only there were a way to plainly show how electrici...
This summer, millions of people -- many of them children -- have struggled to survive a devastating famine in the land-locked, West African nation of Niger.
Suspense was growing in France less than 24 hours before more than 40 million French voters go to the polls in Sunday's crucial referendum on the European Constitution.
Overseas voters cast their ballots on Saturday in France's crucial referendum on the European Union's constitution, with the "No" camp holding its lead in the final opinion polls.
Canada will host international talks in May on what needs to be done to protect the world's dwindling fish stocks from rampant overfishing, officials said on Thursday.
President Bush praised Canada as a strong friend Wednesday in a speech in Halifax and thanked Canadians for the hospitality they showed thousands of travelers stranded there after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
A rescue operation to tow a stricken Canadian submarine to safety off the coast of Ireland is continuing.
Four British rowers whose boat was split in two by a giant wave, ending their hopes of a transatlantic record, say they may try again.
Former President George H.W. Bush is the only person on this planet who can casually prowl by jet, ship and train the upper reaches of power from London to Beijing, dine intimately with heads of state, call the President of the U.S. when he wants, e-mail any of 14 grandchildren about school and baseball ("Astros might go to the World Series"), talk details with a handyman making repairs on the house that has been his spiritual home for eight decades, track menacing chipmunks in the flower beds and then turn and embrace a visiting billionaire.
Canada is once again at the center of an environmental row as it begins the largest seal hunt in more than half a century.
Mistaken identities led to last week's cancellation of three Air France flights from Paris to Los Angeles, with one of the suspicious names belonging to a child, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Amid extraordinary cancellations of international flights in recent days due to security reasons, a top U.S. official said Friday such steps would only be taken if there was "specific intelligence" indicating a possible attack.
Runway in the same spot as last time?" That's our pilot talking with Sable Island, just making sure. Minutes later we're lifting off lightly from Halifax airport in a twin-prop Britten-Norman Islan...
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Have you heard enough about the millennium? Too bad. The talk has barely begun. Millennium watchers predict that the two years of promotional run-ups that lie ahead of us will reach peak intensity ...
A PHYSICAL CHILL settled on the 14th century at its very start, initiating the miseries to come. The Baltic Sea froze over twice, in 1303 and 1306-7; years followed of unseasonable cold, storms, an...
Never mind those credit cards that donate a percentage to your favorite cause. This is the '80s, and charity begins at home. Thus airlines, banks and even an equestrian association are now hawking ...
IT IS THE RARE businessman who can succeed in a big way without taking big risks. Cyrus W. Field, father of the transatlantic cable, repeatedly risked millions on his seemingly impossible dream. Wa...
Canada's Prime Minister Brian Mulroney looked fit and relaxed in January after a holiday in Quebec with his family. Mulroney, who quit smoking ten / months ago, parked his Nicorette gum in an ashtr...
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