Charles de Gaulle

Web Buzz: Smart Layover app points the way during long waits

2013-06-16 06:30:00

Layovers don't have to be a pain in the derri�re. This app points you to short-term hotel stays, tours and travel deals to help you fill the hours. Name: Smart Layover Available for: Android, BlackBerry, iOS What it does: Shows travelers on long...

Rick Atkinson closes his war trilogy with 'The Guns at Last Light'

2013-06-07 10:00:00

After calling it a masterpiece of deep reporting and powerful storytelling, what more needs to be said of Rick Atkinson's trilogy about World War II? The first volume, "An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943" received the Pulitzer Prize for...

Marking Richard Nixon's 100th birthday -- with a map

2013-01-06 08:02:19

Airfare to Europe: Yes, there are ways to save

2012-12-23 00:00:00

After fuel prices sent airfares skyrocketing last summer, you may have sworn off travel to Europe. We can't predict whether summer 2013 fares will shoot up; looking at a sample now tells us they're not cheap — at least, not in comparison with winter...

An exit interview with Rep. David Dreier

2012-10-10 00:00:00

David Dreier was 26, still living in a dorm at Claremont McKenna College and working as a college administrator, when he ran for Congress the first time, in 1978. He lost then but never thereafter. Sixteen times, Dreier was elected to the House of...

Chefs Wolfgang Puck, Masaharu Morimoto talk airport food [Video]

2012-09-21 12:52:00

The evolution of airport food continues, from stale burgers in the past to today's higher-end offerings from Spago founder Wolfgang Puck and Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. Puck's Wolfgang Puck Express and Morimoto's Skewers restaurants, now open at LAX,...

Black List 2011: The complete list of Hollywood's hottest scripts

2011-12-12 16:36:40

‘Beauty Is in the Street’ features 1968 Paris protest posters

2012-01-01 16:33:07

Otto von Habsburg dies at 98; son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor

2011-07-06 00:00:00

Otto von Habsburg, the oldest son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor who saw the end of his family's centuries-long rule and emerged to become a champion of a Europe united by democracy, died Monday in his sleep at his home in Poecking, Germany, where he...

Book Review: 'La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life'

2011-06-26 00:00:00

La Seduction How the French Play the Game of Life Elaine Sciolino Times Books/Henry Holt: 340 pp., $27 Strategy is everything for the French. That's what Elaine Sciolino discovers in her book "La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life," a...

Flights between LAX and East Coast resume after snowstorm

2011-10-30 16:34:44

Did NBC spoil ratings for ABC's Jackie Kennedy special?

2011-09-14 16:35:44

Steven Spielberg's movie stars Tom Hanks as a citizen of Krakozhia who is stranded at JFK airport for nine months. Harsh, right?

2012-10-11 21:18:43

6. Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport

2012-06-23 19:30:00

People wave to the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle at Toulon, France, military harbor as it leaves on its Libyan mission.

2011-03-20 00:00:00