Doomed travel agency in danger of stranding over 150,000 British tourists
(New York Post National News)

A debt-laden, 178-year-old British travel agency asked the government to bail it out Saturday as it scrambles to secure enough cash to prevent it from collapsing and stranding vacationers around the world, including in the US. Thomas Cook PLC, the UK’s oldest travel agent, was looking for a $250 million rescue package that it must...