Police say a guest at a Las Vegas Strip hotel used a fraudulent check to receive $865,000 in chips, which he subsequently lost on table games.
A visitor from Belgium had to be taken to the hospital after suffering severe burns from a hike on sand dunes at Death Valley National Park.
A French journalist has reported Celine Dion and Lady Gaga will team up on an Edith Piaf classic to open the Summer Olympics in Paris.