Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson calls his spacecraft for tourists willing to pay 200,000 dollars a ticket "a dream come true."

The historic Tour d'Argent restaurant in central Paris has one of the best and biggest wine cellars in the world. Next month it is selling off 18,000 bottles, from a collection of 450,000, in a rare auction that will include a champagne from 1788.

A virtually empty prison in Thomson, Illinois could be the next possible location to house foreign terrorism suspects moved from the Guantanamo Bay prison. What a stupid idea. They should be tried as enemy combatants by a military court and summarily dismissed, in Cuba. The federal government spends millions for a state-of-the-art detention facility, in Cuba, with a separate secure military court room; now, the brain trust in Washington wants to ship terrorists to the US for trial and detention? Why not send them to Virginia? They have a pretty solid record for expediting the sentence on deviants and terrorists.

No matter how many times you see it-- all that technology, poking another hole in the ozone, docking with something, built by man, then bringing it's crew back onto terra-firma, once again. The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Florida carrying six astronauts on a mission to deliver spare parts to the International Space Station to extend its life past the 2010 retirement of the aging shuttle fleet. Atlantis launched at 2:28 pm local time from the Kennedy Space Center near Florida's Cape Canaveral carrying six astronauts and some 27,000 pounds (12,300 kilos) of gyroscopes, ammonia tanks and other equipment..