Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I bought business-class train tickets from Kuala Lumpur to Butterworth, Penang. I loved the private Ruby Lounge for business-class ...

My mother, who was a first-class regular on the Paris metro in the 1960s and '70s, has always instilled in me the value of upgrading to the highest class on the train. At times, she told me, she was ...