US President Barack Obama said that closing US borders to citizens of three West African countries hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic would be counter-productive.
Modern Kazakh geographers, historians, biologists, ethnographers and linguists are going to repeat the route of a famous Kazakh traveler of the Russian Empire into Kashgaria.
Lal Jose and his friends will drive across two continents, crossing 27 countries, including Kazakhstan, and covering 24,000 kilometers in 75 days with a message of good will.
All of them were unlucky to buy non-refundable air tickets for chartered flights to be performed by Turkey-based Atlas Jet that has halted its regular flights.
Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines announced plans for the world's first regular commercial shipping route through the Arctic Ocean, starting in 2018, in an attempt to reduce sailing times.
France braced for travel chaos after the country's civil aviation body urged airlines on Monday to cut flights by up to 20 percent in Paris and some other cities due to an air controllers' strike.