Long-haul flights lasting 12 to 15 hours feel like a marathon, even if you’re just sitting there the entire time. But how do flight attendants survive a whole flight without getting tired?

Humans have been building cities for centuries, but they don't always last. In some cases, nature has reclaimed them. Other times, people simply built on top of older structures.

Nearly 6,000 Airbus A320 passenger planes have now completed a round of software patches. The fix comes about a month after a software error caused a JetBlue flight to unexpectedly lose altitude and make an emergency landing. More than a dozen people were injured. Airplanes these days are a lot more than engines and wings and tiny bathrooms.

Notorious Boston kingpin James “Whitey” Bulger’s reign over the city’s criminal underworld has proven one few gangsters could emulate in real life. But in Hollywood, the high-profile, Irish American mob boss has served as a blueprint for loathsome and complex characters in several blockbuster movies and television story lines. The late Bulger’s astonishing double life as an infamous, ruthless gang leader who simultaneously served as a top-level FBI informant is considered by some to be cinema gold.

The United States Secretary of Transportation, Sean P. Duffy, has launched a nationwide “civility campaign” aimed at improving behavior in airports and aboard commercial flights during one of the busiest travel periods of the year. But how feasible is the initiative?

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is urging air travellers to dress better and be more civil - and it's touching a nerve at a time when many Americans consider air travel more frustrating than ever.

Apparently nostalgic for the Champagne, pillbox hats and soft-lit glamour that characterized the skies in the 1950s and ’60s, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy urged airline passengers to dress nicely and mind their manners ahead of the year’s busiest travel week.

It's been 45 years since one of the most significant and tragic moments in Las Vegas history. A fire at the MGM Grand on Nov. 21, 1980 led to 85 people dying and hundreds more getting injured.

The House and Senate have voted to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, though not all documents will be made public. Dr. Michael Green, chair of the history department at UNLV, explained that an ongoing investigation into Epstein and his crimes is the reason for the limited release.

When John F. Miller was building a hotel in Las Vegas, a local paper reported he was sparing no expense. The rooms were large, well-lit and ventilated, and electric lights and a telephone system were being installed. All told, the hotel would be a “credit to Las Vegas and as comfortable a hostelry as can be found anywhere,” the Las Vegas Age declared in 1906.

Selma Frances Abdallah spent her early childhood in New York City, and the family moved to Oklahoma when the Depression destroyed her parents’ jobs in the garment industry. Going to school in Oklahoma she met Troy Bartlett, who was in the Army Air Corps and later the air force. In 1945, they married, and Selma Bartlett earned her degree from Hill Business College in Oklahoma City. She worked at a bank there until Troy was transferred at Nellis Air Force Base in 1954.

A former airline pilot has revealed the disturbing reason why airplane window shades must be raised during takeoff and landing. In an exclusive interview, Daniel Bubb, a Professor in Residence in the Honors College at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a former airline pilot for Air Vegas Airlines, shared insider knowledge from his time as a commercial pilot.