We seniors may soon rule the world, a frustrated reader recently wrote us, but when it comes to traveling solo and paying the bill, we aren't exactly treated like royalty.

We were sitting outside our cottage on New Zealand's South Island watching the sun set over the Takitumu Mountains. It was Thanksgiving morning back in America, the first time we had been away from home for the holiday, but here in the Southern Hemisphere

Charles "Teenie" Harris had a photographic mission: going beyond the obvious or sensational to capture the essence of daily African American life in the 20th century. Now, an exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and an online catalog, are showing the depth of Harris' work.

Here's another way to text-message around the world as well as call U.S. and Canadian mobile phones from abroad.

Question: I'm an Indian national residing in the United States. I was scheduled to fly from Houston to Mumbai on British Airways recently. My itinerary involved a short stopover in London.