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WASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday it is investigating a near collision of two airborne jetliners at Kennedy Airport in New York over the weekend.

MILWAUKEE - For the first time in more than 20 years, the organizers of the Harbor Fest musical festival in Racine, Wis., were forced to cancel their seminal summertime event on the shores of Lake Michigan.

PAMPLONA, Spain - The running of the bulls through Pamplona on Tuesday left one man gored and four slightly injured during the annual San Fermin festival, the Spanish Red Cross said.

TALKEETNA, Alaska - Bob and Sally Corey of Dawsonville, Ga., made sure they were going to see North America's tallest mountain.

BEIJING - Faced with my blank look of incomprehension, the taxi driver took a deep breath and tried again.

BOOTHBAY, Maine - The coast of Maine is probably better known for lobsters and windjammers than rose gardens and flowering dogwood trees.

This is a good summer to take in the sunshine and canyon country scenery around Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona line (assuming you've budgeted for gasoline) because the water in the lake is at its highest level in six years and rising.

DES MOINES, Iowa - If you live in the Midwest and you're looking for an overnight getaway, Midwest Living magazine recommends Duluth. This Minnesota city of 87,000 offers maritime heritage, good food, shopping, beaches and parks, all on the shores of Lake Superior.

NEW YORK - The coming Olympic games in Beijing have spurred production of a slew of new guides to China. Along with books from most of the major travel publishers come four noteworthy new products, each offering readers a completely different experience: a literary companion, Mobil and Zagat guides, and a bilingual map.

We've all heard the horror stories about well-intended watchlists designed to keep terrorists from boarding airplanes: How Senator Ted Kennedy's name showed up on a watchlist a few years ago; how young children with names similar to those of known terrorists are prevented from boarding; how even federal air marshals have been barred from taking flights they are assigned to protect.

The first jet aircraft to be built by leading light-aircraft manufacturer Cirrus Design Corporation has made its first flight.

The last of the transatlantic all-premium-class airlines could soon vanish, but not because of bankruptcy - and it's not necessarily bad news for transatlantic high-fare fliers.