But now Asia's travel market is booming, fuelled by the region's growing middle class with China set to overtake Europe as the world's second biggest aviation market
Meryl Streep won best actress for The Iron Lady but lost one of her shoes as she went to accept the award. Colin Firth replaced the shoe before Streep gave her acceptance speech
The world has made dramatic progress in reducing child deaths, down from 12 to 7.6 million, but this momentum will stall if we fail to tackle malnutrition," said Save the Children chief executive Justin Forsyth
But other nations including China, India and South Korea were left exposed. They have until the end of June to show that they're cooperating - or face being cut off from the US financial system. So what would that mean for them?
But before you reach for a chocolate bar, there are still lots of unanswered questions. And in the absence of conclusive evidence, experts advise caution.
These elections are being seen as a key test of the commitment to political reform of the new government - which is led by a civilian but backed by the military
If you approach a swan nest on the river, they might get aggressive and hiss and flap their wings, but the danger is over-rated and it's a myth that they will break your leg or arm with their wings
They have a reputation for being a bit aggressive, but it's only that it's a matter of size, I guess. Presumably a duck wouldn't attack you because you look a bit big."
No group said it had carried out the attack, but Mr Hemat blamed "the enemies of Afghanistan", a term used by Afghan officials to refer to Taliban insurgents.
It has been emphatically England's day and Cook and Pietersen have batted superbly. We all expected India to go through England but they haven't had that success. They will have to look back on the lines and lengths that they bowled and come back strongly on a fresh day tomorrow.
This pair have batted sublimely well. We know Pietersen can play, but he was so frenetic in Ahmedabad we wondered about him. Cook could not have batted much better than he has today