A week from today, all Americans returning to the US from abroad, even if that means the Caribbean, Mexico, or Canada, will have to fork over a passport in order to be readmitted to their home state.

If you’ve ever visited a great ape exhibit at the zoo and had the painful awareness that there are very sentient creatures on the other side of glass, well, the Adelaide Zoo hears you.

Another look at how the Web 2.0 captured holiday weekend travel traumas: flickr may have the Denver blizzard, but YouTube has footage of the fog that shut down Heathrow.

Denver is up and running after a major blizzard grounded flights and stranded passengers last week. To understand what it takes to put an international air hub into the deep freeze, check out this bird’s-eye image of the snowbound facilities.

How good are TSA agents? This good: On Saturday, a non-english speaking grandmother was confused at an LAX checkpoint and managed to put her 1-month-old grandson through the X-ray machine.

Paris has a new tram line connecting the outer edges of the 13th, 14th and 15th arrondissements, the first tram within city limits since 1937.

They might not be cold-blooded, venomous snakes, but mice are still scary to a lot of people, especially when a herd of 80 of them escapes into the cabin of a plane at 28,000 feet.

There’s a new travel blog in town: trip-booker Travelocity (no relation) appears to have stealth-launched a page appropriately named “The Windowseat,” and written by globe-trotting contributors including columnist Amy Ziff.

The Airbus “superjumbo” A380 has been declared worthy for the commercial air market by both the FAA and the European Aviation Safety Administration (EASA) in a joint ceremony today.

his just in: According to USA Today, the TSA has announced that they are running a pilot program at Dallas/Ft. Worth and Detroit airports to test the feasibility of allowing non-passengers through security.