More reasons to stay at home

I still love to travel. But getting there? It seems to get worse and worse:

France faces a second day of travel chaos as transport unions continue a strike in protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reforms. . .

Rail and bus services were crippled on Wednesday, and more than 50,000 people rallied in Paris against the plans. . .

Germany also faces rail disruption in its worst ever transport strike, with only two-thirds of trains running on main lines.

Video footage has been released in Canada showing the last moments of an immigrant who died after being stunned with a Taser by police.

Robert Dziekanski, 40, of Pieszyce, Poland, was restrained by police after becoming agitated at Vancouver International Airport on 14 October. . .

Mr Dziekanski, a construction worker, was emigrating to Canada to join his mother, who lived in the western province of British Colombia.

Investigators smuggled liquid explosives and other materials to make improvised bombs past 19 U.S. airport checkpoints in a congressional study that exposed a vulnerability of airlines to terrorist attacks.

The Government Accountability Office, the watchdog arm of Congress, reported that guards employed by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration didn't appear in most cases to violate security procedures when they failed to detect explosives. The procedures were implemented after U.K. authorities foiled a 2006 terrorist plot to smuggle liquid explosives aboard trans-Atlantic airlines bound for the U.S.

Posted by David on November 15, 2007 9:18 AM