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Its value has declined in some places, but in these interesting nations the dollar can still stake you to a great vacation.

Airlines are tailoring the super-jumbo jet’s roomy cabin -- with fully flat beds, LCDs, maybe even a casino.

Lynn Longos traveled with three friends to the Lake Los Angeles area, about 10 miles east of Lancaster, to photograph the Sept. 27 supermoon lunar eclipse.

Bill Halladay photographed a group of black-necked stilts at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine on Sept. 4.

Hugo Ramirez photographed “Spheres of MacArthur Park” in early September, about a week after the debut of the public art project.

Timo Saarelma and his husband, John Walton Senterfitt, received an eviction notice earlier this year from the landlord of their rent-controlled Los Feliz apartment.

Lucy Rendler-Kaplan took a close-up photograph of a pony at the Studio City Farmers Market on July 11.

Sungsoo Lee visited Sierra Vista Middle School in Irvine in June.

Lou Orr photographed a black-chinned hummingbird feeding its chicks at the Whittier Narrows Nature Center in South El Monte.

Andrew Pfeifer was in Malibu near Point Dume, taking photos of the alignment of Venus and Jupiter on June 30.