This is a Train à Grande Vitesse or TGV (literally meaning 'high-speed train'), presumably travelling from Marseille to Paris. 17 years younger than Japan's Shinkansen bullet train system, the more modern TGV has travelled faster than any other commercially-operating conventional…

There's absolutely loads of sightseeing to be done in Rome, but today we're just going to be visiting the Circus Maximus... actually, there's so much history in Rome that it's nearly impossible to see just one thing. Close to the…

Apologies to those of you who subscribe to our comments RSS feed, which has today be plagued by a rather nasty onset of comment spam. We've cleaned it all out and tightened up our filtering so, fingers crossed, things should…

Can anyone explain why someone has planted this rectangular-ish line of trees outside of Oakland, CA? And while we're at it, what the heck is this? Thanks to Bob (Canadian) Thompson.

Was this person really not able to think of anything more noteworthy to write in the sand than 'Sh*t Happens'? Mind you, it got posted here I suppose... Thanks to Marilyn Largent

When North Korea, China and the United Nations Command (UNC) signed the 1953 armistice which effectively ended the Korean War, they did so in a village called P'anmunjÅ?m. After the cease-fire was signed, construction began on a site located about…