In a global recession, the opportunity to relive one of the world's deadliest peacetime disasters might seem a tough sell. Yet tickets have been sold out for months.

Andrew Austin finds fun, glamour and plain working folk in America's gambling capital.

Advice on seeing the USA on a budget and who to complain to if a trip promoted by a travel agent over-promises and under-delivers.

Sin City's charms are more alluring than ever, discovers Megan Singleton.

A B&B in the wilds of Montana offers hospitality to wolves as well as humans, writes Rhys Davies.

This B&B near the town of Bozeman in Montana is the only place in North America where you can stay at a functioning wolf sanctuary.

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In what space weather forecasters have called the most potent solar storm since 2004, the Northern Lights' colourful display was stronger than usual, leaving spectators in awe of the shimmering skies above North America and Europe.

Photographer talks of bloodbath in Sicily 20 years after murder of anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone

Launched in July 2011, this luxurious ship cost about $900 million to build and features state-of-the-art innovations including hireable cabanas decked out with picnic hampers, iPads loaded with music, movies, games and magazines and glass elevators that zoom up and down the central atrium around a live tree suspended in mid-air.

Peter Calder on the documentary of Rob Hamill's solemn journey to Cambodia where his brother was killed by the Khmer Rouge.

In February 2012, the US state of Arizona celebrated its 100th anniversary. Click through the gallery to see some of the state's notable landmarks and scenic gems.

The sixth-biggest US state is an Italy-sized expanse of often unforgiving terrain that acts as a bridge between conflicting elements of the North American continent.

Pop matriarch Madonna denies tweaking the title of her new single because of legal pressure from Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis.