Travel

Chinese citizens wait to submit their visa applications at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in 2012. Wait times for interviews once could stretch to a month or more.

In China, Dreaded Process Of Getting Visa To The U.S. May Get Easier

6:41pm November 11, 2014

by Frank Langfitt

The first impression most Chinese have of the U.S. government comes when they apply for a visa. A deal announced this week between the U.S. and China may spare people from having to apply every year.

Researchers found that passport screeners have an error rate of about 15 percent when they're evaluating whether faces match passport photos.

Security Agents Often Miss When Passports Don't Match Faces

6:26pm November 06, 2014

by Anne Miller

The people checking travelers' passports aren't great at catching fake or stolen documents. One solution might be to screen the screeners and only hire those with a talent for recognizing faces.

Anders Kelto's suitcase took its chlorine wipes on a detour to Paris.

The Misadventures Of My Anti-Ebola Suitcase

11:20am October 29, 2014

by Anders Kelto

It was packed with all the things needed to keep safe on a reporting trip to Sierra Leone. Then it took a few wrong turns and ended up in ... Paris! Will correspondent and luggage ever be reunited?

In Turkey, bits of meat are wrapped in squares of pasta to make manti.

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From Ramen To Rotini: Following The Noodles Of The Silk Road

7:22pm July 20, 2013

by Anna Haensch

Is it possible that pasta originated in China and traveled west to Italy? Author Jen Lin-Liu travels the historic Silk Road from Beijing to Rome, tracing the evolution of pasta and sampling the offerings along the way.

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