Ground crew personnel service Delta planes at the Salt Lake City international Airport on November 27, 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images) MINNEAPOLIS -- Delta Air Lines won't allow passengers to make voice calls from its planes. Right now, federal rules prohibit voice calls on planes. But the government is indicating that it might loosen those rules. If that happens, it could be up to airlines to set their own policies. On Wednesday, Delta went ahead and...

La Fete de Creppisage - the annual festival of the replastering of the central mosque in Djenne, Mali. Winner of the Cutty Sark Award for Travel Photographer of the Year 2013. (Timothy Allen/www.tpoty.com) From a group of young skateboarders in India to a mud mosque festival in Mali, the winning photos from the 2013 Travel Photographer of the Year competition capture the vast and awe-inspiring range of experiences on planet Earth. With entrants coming from nearly 100 countries to compete...

King Arthur Pendragon, a senior Druid, poses for a photograph as he begins a protest march from the old Stonehenge visitor center to the new one in protest at English Heritage display of ancient human remains on Dec. 18, 2013 in Wiltshire, England. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images) The mysterious monument of Stonehenge has stood without assistance for more than a millennium. It finally received a modern renovation — and the druids aren't happy about it. The £27 million ($44 million) renovations...

Elf houses near Strandakirkja in south Iceland. (Christian Bickel ) REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories abound of the "hidden folk" - thousands of elves, making their homes in Iceland's wilderness. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before 21st-century elves got political representation. Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission...

Some Delta fliers caught a lucky break Thursday. (Getty Images) NEW YORK – Some lucky fliers capitalized on a computer glitch Thursday and scored some really cheap flights on Delta Air Lines. From about 10 a.m. to noon ET, certain Delta fares on the airline's own website and other airfare booking sites were showing up incorrectly, offering some savvy bargain hunters incredible deals. A roundtrip flight between Cincinnati and Minneapolis for February was being sold for just $25.05 and a...

Camels parade in the Liwa desert, west of Abu Dhabi, during the Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival on December 22, 2013. The festival, which attracts participants from around the Gulf region, includes a camel beauty contest and other activities aimed at promoting the country's folklore. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images) The dusty, rolling sand dunes of the desert in the United Arab Emirates, where temperatures can soar above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, may be one of the most unusual places to hold a beauty...

A reveler takes part in the battle of 'Enfarinats,' a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival on December 28, 2013 in Ibi, Spain. Citizens of Ibi annually celebrate the festival with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers. (David Ramos/Getty Images) The area outside the town hall in Ibi, Spain, may look like a snow-covered winter wonderland, but the white powder is actually from a fierce flour fight held to celebrate the 'Els Enfarinats' Festival. Citizens of...

Perched high above the teeming metropolis of Hong Kong, some of the city's poorest residents live in shanties that offer million-dollar views. Known as "sky slums," the shanty towns have spread across the city, built on the roofs of previously existing apartments and tenements. Although they may have light and fresh air, the shacks have plenty of disadvantages. Residents must climb many stories of stairs to reach their homes and they contend with everything from bugs to flooding, said a...

This Dec. 30, 2013 picture shows a general view of the ice lanterns and carvings at the 2014 Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, in northeast China. This year's 'Ice and Snow World' will officially open on January 5, 2014. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Lit up in spectacular colors, the shimmering palaces and sculptures of the Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival are primed for their 30th appearance in Harbin, China. The festival is one of the largest in the world,...

View of the Taj Lake Palace in Udaipur, India. The luxury hotel sits on an island in Lake Pichola, which gives it a 'floating' appearance. (Taj Lake Palace/Leading Hotels of the World) With its numerous lakes, the city ofUdaipur in India is often called the "City of Lakes" or the "Venice of the East." On one of these scenic lakes, Lake Pichola, sits the shimmering jewel known as ,considered one of the most romantic hotels on Earth. It's easy to...

Kilian Schonberger is a professional photographer and geographer from Germany. His shots of the Czech Bohemian Forest capture the misty landscape's magical aura. (Kilian Schonberger) German photographer Kilian Schonberger is color blind. Yet his landscape photos of the Czech Bohemian Forest on the German-Czech border are spectacular. He believes that his color blindness allows him to focus his attention to structures and overall image composition. “My color blindness concerns several tones: I can’t distinguish green from red, magenta from grey,...

Passengers arrive at Union Station after their Amtrak train from Los Angeles became stuck in snow drifts on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, in Chicago. ((AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)) CHICAGO -- The Amtrak train slowed to a crawl as it hammered through snowdrifts in an empty stretch of Illinois countryside, delivering thuds and jolts to passengers, until it lurched into a mound big enough to grind its 8,000-horsepower engine to a halt. About 90 miles short of their Chicago destination, passengers...

Greig Trout goes whitewater rafting in the Rio Pacuare in Costa Rica. Trout, a two-time cancer survivor, is traveling the world with an 'anti-bucket list' and aims to inspire others by completing '101 things to do when you survive.' (Greig Trout/ 101 Things to Do When You Survive Facebook) A two-time cancer survivor has dumped the "bucket list" and is instead hoping to inspire others to beat the disease by traveling the world with a dream list of "things to...