The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should have above-average activity, with three major hurricanes and a good chance at least one of them will make landfall, a top hurricane researcher said last week. Colorado State forecaster William Gray predicted 14 named storms and a total of seven hurricanes next year.

Having conquered many of the top golf courses in the world, golf great Tiger Woods is now ready to design a course of his own.

The Dominican Republic, through the National Aviation Administration (DGAC), and the Argentinean Commercial Air Transport Ministry, inked an agreement to allow aircraft transit between the two countries.

During a pacific protest staged recently, owners of various restaurants in the Colonial Zone denounced that their businesses cannot survive any longer with losses caused by authorities’ interpretation of the 308-06 decree prohibiting expending alcoholic beverages in public businesses from midnight to 2 am on Fridays and Saturdays. Employees and owners of four prominent eateries in downtown Santo Domingo claim that article 16 in decree 316-06 was stipulated to exonerate from the ruling those private areas where tourism centers are located, local city-sponsored festivities, Christmas holidays and New Year’s celebrations.

Virgin Galactic handpicked the first 45 Virtuoso travel sellers to be accredited space agents who will sell Virgin Galactic’s space travel programs in North America. In August 2006, Virgin named Virtuoso as its exclusive network of space agents in the U.S.

Brazilian authorities lifted a ban on takeoffs from three major local airports last week after fixing an air traffic communications system that broke down a day earlier, prompting an unprecedented wave of flight cancellations and travel chaos. But lines were long at the airport in the capital of Brasilia, at the main airport in the large central city of Belo Horizonte and at the Sao Paulo airport that handles most domestic flights from Brazil’s biggest city to all corners the country.