It's a close call for the biggest cruise ship in the world. On its maiden voyage, the Oasis of the Seas barely makes it under a bridge in Denmark, clearing with less than 2 feet of room. The ship is five times bigger than the Titanic and has an ice rink, a golf course and four swimming pools. It can hold 6,300 passengers and 2,100 crew members.

Southwest Airlines apologizes after kicking a woman and her 2-year-old son off a flight because the child won't stop screaming "Go! Plane! Go!" and "I want Daddy!" Pamela Root, the boy's mother, will receive a full refund and a $300 travel voucher, an airline spokesman says.

In northern Israel, construction workers discover one of the world's oldest synagogues -- on the site of a future hotel. The structure is believed to date back 2,000 years, and features an unusual carving of a seven-branched menorah, left. Says one archaeologist: "We are dealing with an exciting and unique find."

"We just need to work out some way to get them off ... We can't keep them here any longer." Those are the words of an ExpressJet pilot earlier this month who begged airport officials to allow her passengers to deplane and go inside the airport. Instead, the passengers were forced to spend six hours stuck on the cramped plane in an incident that the Department of Transportation now decries for its "complete lack of common sense."