• The stately and fantastical architecture, the history hanging in the air of the markets, the scent of jasmine in the ladies' car of the train, the gardens and street vendors and balloon-wallahs and intellectuals in old libraries - it will all take you in if you let it.

    BBC: Mumbai: India's Tinseltown

  • Yet as nonstop commerce has created a sleepless planet, hotels remain mired in conventions of the 1800s, when the steam train rolled in and out of town once each afternoon and again the following morning.

    CNN: 10 ways to improve the travel industry right now

  • From the moment she arrived in the emergency room that Friday morning in February, the train of events ran against a peaceful ending.

    NEWYORKER: Letting Go

  • The health insurance and managed-care provider is still up 72.5% in the past 12 months, and the gurus decided it was time to jump off of the train and lock in profits, especially since the Medicare Modernization Act, which takes effect next year, could put a crimp in the growth in premiums that health insurance providers can charge.

    FORBES: Gurus Buy Biotech And Software, Sell Health Care

  • MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish court Wednesday delivered an unexpectedly mixed verdict in the trial of 28 defendants charged in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, convicting three of mass murder but delivering lesser convictions against the others.

    CNN: Spain condemns terror verdict

  • To Henry Cao, who was seated beside a window in the last compartment of the second car, the train seemed to float, describing long elegant turns and shuddering now and then with the whump of a train going in the opposite direction.

    NEWYORKER: Boss Rail

  • MPs also concluded the bundling together of train manufacture and financing in large procurement exercises would skew the market towards larger multinational firms, possibly at the expense of excellence in train design and domestic manufacturing.

    BBC: Bombardier report: Credit rating 'settled rail deal'

  • One eastbound train derailed, coming to rest in the path of a westbound train that sideswiped it, damaging several cars and tearing up rails.

    WSJ: Rail Corridor Hit With Major Outage

  • During the trip to Baker Street, the royal party met ticket, maintenance and train staff, including people involved in the restoration of rolling stock.

    BBC: Queen and Catherine visit Baker Street Tube station

  • The first line of defense, in some cases, is the train engineers themselves, said Michael Doyle, general chairman of the Engineers Division of the Association of Commuter Rail Employees, which represents train operators on Metro-North.

    WSJ: Metro-North Is Set To Restore Full Service Wednesday

  • But while they try to persuade pro-status quo Catholics to cross the political divide, unionists will resist setting in train what could, under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, become a rolling process of border polls to be held on a seven yearly basis.

    BBC: The Robinson strategy to widen DUP appeal

  • The Mini was one of the first cars to popularize the use of the universal joint in the drive train, previously used in submarine control gear.

    CNN: A design classic

  • Some areas of the New York subway remain out of service, notably South Ferry station in Manhattan and the A train to the Rockaway peninsula, but miles of track were never touched by the flood.

    WSJ: PATH's Road Back Is Rocky

  • In a statement issued Friday, the NTSB said the engineer of the eastbound train that derailed told investigators he noticed "an unusual condition on the track" as the train approached the area of the derailment in Bridgeport, Conn.

    WSJ: Probe of Metro-North Derailment in Connecticut Focuses on Rail

  • Unless acquisition, personnel and training and readiness improvements are made in tandem with the sorts of changes Secretary Rumsfeld has put in train with respect to operating, equipping and overseas deployment of the armed forces, the full benefits of transformation will be denied the military and the nation they serve so well.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Tools of transformation

  • "I could see part of the train in front of me curving, " he said.

    WSJ: Train Derailment Injures Dozens

  • With customs officers on hand 24 hours a day, the time needed to buy goods in Greece, or take delivery of containers arriving by train from the port of Salonika, should be slashed.

    ECONOMIST: Good neighbours

  • Best place to drink: The Basketmakers Arms Pub, which has eight ales on tap, is probably the best traditional pub in Brighton, located in the North Laine district, southeast of the train station.

    BBC: Four unmissable day trips from London

  • The gown featured French seamed crinoline borders, which cascaded into a dramatic cathedral train finished in the lace, with accents of a peacock-feathered design.

    WSJ: Michael Jordan Marries Former Model

  • "Our grid is organised as a lattice, which means it has resilience built in, " commented Chris Train, the director of market operation at the National Grid.

    BBC: UK 'can cope with solar superstorm'

  • That followed the revolution in Portugal the previous year, which set in train a rushed and botched process of decolonisation.

    ECONOMIST: East Timor

  • Today, the masons train apprentices, and the project has resulted in hundreds of dwellings that have been built by a qualified, local labor force.

    UNESCO: Social Sciences

  • The Workshop, which will be taught by professionals in the fields of communication, audiovisual and gender, will train approximately twenty professors and teachers and will raise awareness among professionals of education with regards to the relationship between audiovisual, the impact of HIV and AIDS and gender-based-violence.

    UNESCO: SIDACULT EDUCATION Workshop

  • Born in Barnet, London in 1919, Oxenford made her stage debut aged 13, and went on to train at the Embassy School of Acting in Swiss Cottage.

    BBC: Daphne Oxenford

  • The U.S. track team will train in China ahead of the games, in the northeastern city of Dalian, where the air is cleaner.

    NPR: Beijing Races to Clear Its Skies Before the Olympics

  • Did the most memorable gold medalists train in sophisticated, state-of-the-art facilities staffed by the experts of their field?

    FORBES: Organizational Culture: The Hidden Path To Success

  • During one of my recent visits, in winter, we rode the elevated train out of Berlin to the southwest and watched the ice boats careen across the Wannsee.

    FORBES: Karin Germany Value in An Exceptional Friend

  • And I think that when people look back in five years time at, you know, what did, what did Virgin do for this country, I think what we've done - what we will have done for the train network in this country, will be one of the most important things.

    BBC: News Online

  • One train struck the other train from the rear and and its "first car overrode the last car of the other train in an accordion fashion, " she said.

    CNN: Six killed in Washington-area Metro train collision

  • The railroads were interested and would guarantee delivery in five days, provided a couple of things: That the train ran at least once a week, so the railroads could be sure that the cars and locomotives it dedicated to the service would be used regularly, and that Pollak deal with loading and unloading the delicate goods.

    FORBES: Join The Cold Train

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