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At least 13 civilians died and more than 35 were wounded during the latest round of heavy fighting between Islamic insurgents and African Union (AU) peacekeepers in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials said Wednesday.
Islamist forces attacked the Ugandan KM4 base in Mogadishu late on Tuesday night, prompting AU troops...
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Belgian authorities have extradited
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, former vice president of the Democratic
Republic of Congo, to face war crimes charges, the International
Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague said Thursday. Bemba was
detained in Belgium in May following his flight from the DRC last year
after losing presidential elections...
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 The trial of six French nationals charged over their attempt to spirit
out more than 100 African children from eastern Chad began in the
capital Ndjamena Friday, with the accused each facing up to 20 years in
prison if convicted.
The members of French aid charity l'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark), who
are being tried alongside three...
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 Latest estimates regarding the number of people displaced in
the war-torn Afghanistan nation of Somalia "has risen sharply to a
staggering 1 million,” according to The U.N. refugee agency.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday that
about 60 percent or 600,000 people are thought to have fled from the capital...
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 Seven Europeans charged with complicity in the attempt to kidnap 103 purported Darfuri orphans were released Sunday after French President Nicolas Sarkozy jetted into Chad for talks with Chadian President Idriss Deby.
Three French journalists and four Spanish stewardesses were released upon Sarkozy's arrival in the Chadian capital...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy set off for Chad on Sunday for talks with Chadian President Idriss Deby over the fate of the detained Europeans charged with trying to kidnap 103 purported Darfuri orphans, his office announced in Paris.
According to the press statement, the discussion between the two leaders in the Chadian capital...
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Kenyan Airways confirmed that the Nairobi-bound airliner
that was lost after issuing a distress signal shortly after takeoff from Cameroon has
been found after a two full days of searching.
The crash site of the Boeing 737-800 was in a mangrove
swamp, 20 kilometres southwest of Douala, a
business centre on the Cameroon
coast....
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China on Friday launched its Shenzhou VII manned space mission carrying three astronauts whose main task was to complete the country's first spacewalk.
The spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan space centre in the north-western province at 9:10 pm (1310 GMT) on board a Long March-2F carrier rocket.
The scheduled three-to-four-day...
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Third-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta shook off her own jet-lag to reach the quarter-finals of the Commonwealth Bank Classic on Thursday despite a distracting injury timeout from opponent Anastasia Rodionova.
US Open quarter-finalist Pennetta was fuming as the 77th-ranked Russian took a 4-0 lead in the second set, then began feeling...
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A former leader of Colombia's largest rebel
group has been charged in connection with the kidnapping of three US
contractors who were rescued from the Colombian jungle last month, the
US Justice Department announced Monday. Heli Mejia Mendoza,
known by the alias Martin Sombra, could face up to 60 years in prison
after being...
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 Delta Air Lines Inc., a Unites States airline based and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, will double its fee for checking a second bag on a domestic flight. The measure is part of a set of fee increases which aims to help counterbalance the high cost of fuel.The nation's third-largest carrier said yesterday that the changes will only...
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 India-born surgeon Jayant Patel, nicknamed “Doctor Death,” returned to Australia to face charges relating to the deaths of more than a dozen patients. Patel was taken into police custody in the United States after being extradited. On Monday, he was granted a conditional bail by a Queensland court after arriving in a Qantas Airways...
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the 136th day of 2008 with 230 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include author L. Frank Baum ("The Wizard of Oz") in 1856; French chemist Pierre Curie in 1859; author...
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the 126th day of 2008 with 240 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in 1813; German political theorist Karl Marx in 1818; hatmaker John...
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 Having at their disposal fruits and vegetables that would
feed them until the end of the week and tents to “accommodate” them,
environmentalists officially opened the
“Camp for Climate Action” today near the Heathrow Airport in London.
Protesters have been gathering since Sunday, pitching tents, installing
solar panels and...
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the 191st day of 2007 with 174 to follow.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include Protestant theologian John Calvin in 1509; American painter James Whistler in 1834; brewer...
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...the 166th day of 2007 with 199 to follow.
The moon is new. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Prince Edward of England, son of Edward III and known as the "Black Prince," in 1330;...
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The 165th day of 2007 with 200 to follow.
Today is Flag Day in the United States.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's...
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Officials took cover indoors as rain from an approaching typhoon dampened the Japan Open for a second day on Tuesday, with teenaged tennis hero Kei Nishikori securing an opening win under the roof.
The 18-year-old, who claimed his nation's first ATP title in 16 years when he won Delray Beach in February, took two hours to overcome...
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Third seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta shook off her own jet-lag to reach the quarter-finals of the Commonwealth Bank Classic on Thursday despite a distracting injury timeout from flagging opponent Anastasia Rodionova.
US Open quarter-finalist Pennetta was fuming as the 77th-ranked Russian took a 4-0 lead in the second set, then began...
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The technician who fixed a technical problem on a passenger plane that crashed on August 20 did not comply with the instructions of plane maker Boeing because the Spanish airline had not included them in its handbook, the daily El Mundo reported Friday.
The Spanair MD-82 crashed at Madrid airport after take-off, killing 154 and...
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Austria on Thursday extradited a former Croatian general to his homeland for trial on embezzlement charges, according to news reports.
Vladimir Zagorec, 44, a weapons buyer for Croatian forces during the Balkan nation's 1991-95 war of independence from Yugoslavia, was handed over to Croatia after the Austrian constitutional court...
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Austria on Thursday extradited a former Croatian general for trial on embezzlement charges in his homeland, news reports said.
Vladimir Zagorec, 44, a weapons buyer for Croatian forces during the Balkan nation's 1991-95 war of independence from Yugoslavia, was handed over to Croatia after the Austrian constitutional court threw out...
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European Union defence ministers meeting in France on Wednesday were to consider ending the bloc's military operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, officials said.
"Citizens should know that we can create a mission and terminate it as well," said the meeting's host, French Defence Minister Herve Morin, whose country holds the...
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Customs officials at Frankfurt airport found 8.7 million euros (12.7 million dollars) in cash stashed in the luggage of a student, reports said Sunday.
The money was discovered during a routine check while the 29-year- old German was waiting to board a flight to the Middle East, customs officials told the Bild am Sonntag...
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Amid a struggle in Rome to avert the collapse of Italian airline Alitalia, Lufthansa has resumed talks with Italy's government, the German airline said Friday.
Lufthansa chief executive Wolfgang Mayrhuber had travelled to Italy at the government's invitation and would also meet trade union leaders, a spokeswoman for Lufthansa said in...
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European aerospace group EADS said Thursday that the first flight of its new A400M multi-purpose military transport plane has been postponed "because of the unavailability of the propulsion system."
The postponement is another blow for EADS, which has already lost billions of euros because of delays to its A380 superjumbo...
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The maiden flight of the much-delayed European military transport plane A400M is being postponed because the engines are still not ready, manufacturer EADS said Thursday from its German offices in Munich.
The propellor plane is intended as Europe's answer to the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, but the project at planemaker Airbus has...
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The Spanish airline Iberia will stop the historic flights between Madrid and the British enclave of Gibraltar, sources of the airline said Tuesday.
Iberia said the route was not profitable enough. The last flight was scheduled for Sunday.
The flights were part of a 2006 agreement lifting some of the restrictions of movement and...
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A captain and co-pilot of the Spanish carrier Air Europa fought in front of their hotel in a state of drunkenness five hours before they were due to fly together, the newspaper Faro de Vigo reported Monday.
Police separated the two men, dressed in uniforms of the airline, who were beating each other up early Sunday in the...
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Italy's bankruptcy-facing flagship carrier invited Monday public offers to purchase the company while Italy's airport regulator threatened to revoke the airline's flight licence unless a viable rescue plan is presented within three days.
Alitalia published the call for tenders on its website saying submissions need to be made by...
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British Airways (BA) has suspended flights from London to Islamabad following the massive bomb blast in the Pakistani capital, a spokesman said Monday.
A flight due to leave Tuesday had been cancelled "in light of the security situation" and the airline had yet to decide whether Wednesday's flight from London to Islamabad...
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Russia's stock two leading stock exchanges jumped Friday minutes after reopening following a two-day suspension of trading to stop the nation's worst financial crisis sice the 1998 default.
The dollar-denominated RTS climbed 11 per cent in the start of trading while the ruble-denominated ruble-denominated MICEX soared 14.4 per cent...
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told investors at a forum in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday that Russia would not play politics with its market and remained open to foreigners despite acrimony over its war with Georgia.
"Our ideology and politics remain the same," Putin told executives....
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Trade on Russia's leading RTS index was arrested for a second time on Friday, after stocks soared uncontrollably following deep lows earlier in the week.
Regulators moved to halt trading on the dollar-denominated RTS at 1.55 pm Moscow time (10.55 GMT) after re-starting following an earlier closure in on Friday, as share prices...
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Russian prosecutors launched a flight safety inquiry on Tuesday into flagship carrier Aeroflot after a crash that killed 88 people, the general prosecutor's office said.
The Aeroflot Boeing 737 crashed near Russia's Ural mountains as it readied to land in the city of Perm on a flight from Moscow. Twenty-one foreigners and seven...
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Russian investigators ruled out a terrorist attack as the cause of a plane crash that killed all 88 people on board Sunday, saying an engine fault was to blame.
The Aeroflot Boeing 737 crashed near Russia's Ural mountains as it readied to land in the city of Perm on a flight from Moscow. Twenty- one foreigners and seven children...
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A Ryanair aircraft was Thursday forced to make an emergency landing minutes after take-off from Dublin airport in Ireland, the budget airline said.
A spokesman said the back of the plane struck the runway as it took off and the pilot returned to the airport as a precaution. He described the occurrence as a "tail-strike"...
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German President Horst Koehler left China Monday on board a commercial Air China flight because of technical problems with his German air force plane.
The Airbus Konrad Adenauer could not be repaired in time, forcing Koehler and his 50-member delegation to fly to Frankfurt with the commercial airline.
During his three-day visit to...
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero expressed confidence on Wednesday that investigators would discover what caused a Spanair MD-82 passenger plane to crash at Madrid airport, killing 154 people.
Thirty-nine of the fatalities in the August 20 accident are still to be identified. Zapatero said he expected their...
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 Ryanair airline said in a report on Tuesday that one of its flights, FR9336, from Britain to Spain had to land in France at Limoges airport after a loss of cabin pressure. 26 passengers had to be taken to a hospital. The airplane was coming from Bristol airport in southwest England and was heading for Barcelona.There were 168 passengers...
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 153 people died after Madrid plane crashed. Investigators are now searching for the causes of the accident. The plane crashed and exploded shortly after it took off in Spain’s capital. Only 19 people remained alive from the crash and King Juan Carlos already met the relatives of the victims.Spanair flight JK 5022 had 172 people on board...
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At the start of what became a journey into catastrophe was a take-off like any other. The plane taxied to its starting position at Madrid airport and began rolling down the runway.
But then it happened.
The McDonnell-Douglas MD-82 of the airline Spanair did not rise up into the blue skies above the Spanish capital, but instead...
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Passengers on a flight from Britain to Crete were given the choice of either arriving at their destination without their bags or getting off the plane, British media reported Wednesday.
Already seated aboard the flight, the passengers of a Viking airlines flight were told the aircraft needed to reduce its weight before the journey and...
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Scores of flights in and out of Brussels' main Zaventem airport were delayed or cancelled on Monday as a result of a walkout by baggage carriers.
Airport officials said thousands of passengers were affected by the strike, which was called by Aviapartner workers to protest against harsh working conditions.
Belgian media quoted trade...
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The European Union's executive body on Friday agreed to publish the list of objects which passengers are banned from carrying on board aircraft, ahead of an expected ruling from the European Court on the issue.
The European Commission has decided to publish the list, and it will appear in the EU's official journal "in a matter of...
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 According to Reuters, Verdi union is in informal talks with Lufthansa, trying to reach an agreement to put an end to a strike over pay which started on Monday, causing more than 100 flight cancellations.Earlier, the German-based airline said it would cut 128 flights per day until Monday in response to the walkout by technical and...
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 A strike by Lufthansa ground and cabin staff over pay has barely disrupted flights to and from German airports, the Europe’s leading airline informed on Monday.Thousands of passengers had to wait at the airports by reason of the strike by up to 5,000 members of the Verdi services union. The walkout began Sunday at midnight at several...
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Britain's Prince William for the second time
this month was involved in a major anti-drug smuggling operation in the
Caribbean, the British Defence Ministry reported Sunday from London.
The 26-year-old lieutenant was aboard a British marine helicopter that
was set to go on a training flight when it was redirected to halt
suspected...
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A drunken passenger tried to open the door of
a British charter plane over the Atlantic before he was restrained by
crew, other passengers were quoted Thursday as saying. The
Boeing 767 made an unscheduled landing on Bermuda to offload the man,
who had been drinking from bottles bought earlier at an airport
duty-free shop,...
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The British government Thursday signed
contracts worth 3.2 billion pounds (6.4 billion dollars) for the
construction of two new aircraft carriers - the biggest in the history
of the Royal Navy.
The 280-metre-long HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales will
be capable of carrying up to 40 aircraft. Their construction...
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 A British Muslim accused of plotting to blow up
transatlantic jets admitted he planned to explode a device at a U.K airport
terminal, AFP reports.
27-year-old Abdulla Ahmed Ali also said he intended to set
off a device in the Houses of Parliament in London
in order to attract attention to an online documentary attacking...
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 Michael Fournier, 64, a retired French paratrooper,
planned to jump from a capsule beneath a helium-filled balloon at an altitude
of 130,000 feet (40,000 meters) to become the first person to freefall faster
than the speed of sound.
The skydiver wanted to break the world free
fall record, but he failed to get off the ground when...
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 British military officials said Prince William, second in line to the British throne, landed a Chinook helicopter in a field next to his girlfriend Kate Middleton's house. They also said the prince had not breached any rules when he did that. The Royal Air Force helicopter was usually used for transporting troops and equipment in...
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 The British Airways Boeing which crash-landed at London's Heathrow
airport suffered double-engine failure during the approach, an initial
report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said Friday.
The two engines on the Boeing 777 "did not respond" to a demand for
increased thrust about three kilometres from...
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 Air accident investigators assisted by representatives from plane
manufacturers Boeing and engine-makers Rolls-Royce were Friday trying
to find the cause of the dramatic crash-landing of a British Airways
Boeing 777 at London's Heathrow airport.
The 150 passengers and crew had a near-miraculous escape as the
Boeing, after a flight...
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 The 150 passengers and crew of a British Airways (BA) Boeing 777 had a
lucky escape Thursday during a dramatic crash-landing at London's
Heathrow airport in which 19 people suffered minor injuries.
Experts said disaster was narrowly avoided when the massive plane,
coming in on a long-haul flight from Beijing, crash-landed at a...
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 According to airport officials, more than 200 people were
left stranded in hotel and risked spending Christmas there too as flight
cancellations and delays came one after another at Heathrow.
More than 60 flights had to be cancelled because planes and
crew were at the wrong airports after fog led to 86 flights being cancelled...
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 Police Thursday arrested three British residents released by the US
government after five years in Guantanamo Bay detention centre, one man
was later released on bail.
Jamil el-Banna, Omar Deghayes and Abdenour Sameur landed at Luton
airport Wednesday on a chartered flight from Cuba and were handed over
to British police...
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The wife of a British man who had gone missing for over five years in a
presumed drowning accident with his canoe was arrested Sunday on her
return to Britain, the Daily Mirror reported in its online edition.
The tabloid said Anne Darwin was arrested on her arrival on a flight from Miami.
The Daily Mirror has secured the...
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Ivory Coast-born Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, a suspect in the Meredith
Kercher sex murder, arrived in Italy Thursday after he was extradited
from Germany.
Police at Rome's Fiumicino airport escorted Guede, who was wearing
jeans and a dark jacket, to a waiting car after he got off a midday
flight from Frankfurt, the ANSA news agency...
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 Officials and news reports said U.S. team of investigators
inspected the site of a deadly plane crash on Sunday for clues to what caused
the accident that killed 57 people.
A team from Boeing, which has acquired the aircraft
manufacturer McDonnell Douglas, and from jet engine manufacturer Pratt &
Whitney visited the crash site...
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 Forty-nine passengers and seven crew were killed when an Atlasjet
flight crashed early Friday morning in central Turkey, according to
Atlasjet chief executive officer Tuncel Doganel.
"We have reached the crash site by helicopter. There is no one to be rescued," Doganel told reporters in Istanbul.
The budget airline's...
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 Schools and post offices were closed, planes were late, newsstands were
empty of newspapers and hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in
cities throughout France Tuesday as civil servants carried out a
24-hour strike to demand higher wages and fewer job cuts.
In addition, train service throughout the country and...
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 According to a statement given by British Airways officials,
the international airline has ordered 36 Airbus SAS and Boeing Co. (BA, BOE.L)
planes valued at $8.2 billion, with option for further 25 Airbus and Boeing
planes and that the planes will be equipped with Rolls-Royce Group Plc engines.
British Airways has split the...
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 Scandinavian Airlines System or SAS is apparently going
through a bad period, with their third plane accident this week. Officials remained
amassed at the recent incidents and have trouble explaining them their selves.
An estimated number of 10,000 airline passengers in Norway, Denmark,
and Sweden
were delayed after the...
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 Russia has just issued a press release according to which it plans
to conduct a manned mission to the Moon by 2025. Plans also include
building a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian
space agency Roskosmos has said.
"According to our estimates we will be ready for a manned flight to
the Moon in 2025,"...
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 A Twin Otter DHC6 turboprop plunged into the Pacific shortly after taking off from the French Polynesian resort island of Moorea, killing all twenty people aboard. The tragic accident happened yesterday, and rescue workers managed to find 17 bodies, which include 16 passengers and the aircraft's pilot, who is also the territory's No. 2...
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 The seven crewmen onboard a cargo plane which crashed near Moscow today died, according to ITAR-TASS. The aircraft was an Antonov An-12 (NATO reporting name: Cub) registered to the air company Atran. It was in service since 1964 and crashed just kilometers away from its take-off point at the Domodedovo airport heading for Bratsk in...
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 The flight to the very edge of Europe begins in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is like taking a trip back in time to the pioneering days of air travel when a journey by plane had an air of adventure to it.
It is also one of the best ways to get into the mood for tranquil days in the Outer Hebrides, a chain of islands off the west...
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Hoffenheim coach Ralf Rangnick has rejected spending inflated sums for players despite the backing of one of Germany's wealthiest men.
Rangnick has taken the village club from the third to the first division in successive seasons and now finds himself second in the Bundesliga ahead of a visit Saturday by Werder Bremen.
But the...
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The recent success against Roma in the Italian Supercup gave Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho an idea of what is expected of him when his first Serie A season at the helm of the Italian champions begins this weekend.
The game Sunday which saw Inter prevail on penalties after a 2-2 draw was tense, spectacular and gruelling, with an...
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The Shenzhou VII mission marks a key stage in China's ambitious manned space programme, which is designed to produce a permanent Chinese space laboratory in orbit by 2020.
The success of the three-day mission, which includes a first spacewalk, will mark a "remarkable step in space exploration" on the way to setting up the...
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Helicopter gunships on Thursday pounded militant positions along the Afghan border, leaving 14 Taliban rebels dead, as airports in all of Pakistan's major cities were put on alert over threats of suicide bombings, officials said.
The militant hideouts were targeted in the Rashakai, Tang Khata and Loi Sam areas of the Bajaur...
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South Korean companies and financial markets will feel the after-effect of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in the short term, but officials and analysts are confident that the economy can cope with the turmoil in the long term.
Finance Minister Kang Man Soo told the parliament's financial committee on Wednesday he...
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Two men who hijacked a Sudanese plane in Darfur and forced it to fly to Libya released all 87 passengers on Wednesday but kept six of the crew hostage, the Libyan news agency Jana reported.
A Libyan civil aviation official said negotiations were still under way with the air pirates to turn themselves in and free their remaining...
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An Indian woman was lucky enough Wednesday to have not one but four doctors to help her deliver a baby boy on a flight between Hong Kong and Adelaide.
The plane made an unscheduled landing in the far-north Australian city of Darwin early Wednesday.
"There were four of us - one surgeon, one orthopaedic surgeon, one kidney...
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Lighter lunches, less alcohol and even streamlined cutlery are on the menu on Asian airlines as they shed excess weight in scores of little ways in a bid to cut down escalating fuel costs.
With every gram carried on board equating to fuel, airlines are taking a closer look at what's on board and making some inventive changes to cut...
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Taiwan and China plan to hold talks in October to sign a pact on launching direct shipping and cargo charter flights across the Taiwan Strait, an official said Tuesday.
After a meeting in Beijing in May which led to launching weekend charter flights on July 4, Taiwan's top negotiator Chiang Ping-kun and his Chinese counterpart Chen...
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An ethnic Vietnamese US citizen whom authorities prevented from leaving Vietnam for three weeks for political reasons has been allowed to return to the United States, the Vietnamese government said Thursday.
Charlie Ly, a prominent member of the Vietnamese-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had been trying to leave...
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The inaugural flight of AirAsia Indonesia landed at Singapore's Changi Airport Thursday, making it the third airline to start operations in Singapore this year.
Aboard the flight from Pekanbaru, the capital city of Riau province, was the carrier's chief executive officer, Dharmadi, who like many Indonesians uses only one...
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Deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's refusal to return to Thailand Monday to face four court cases on corruption charges effectively puts an end to his controversial political career, but his legacy may prove harder to kill.
Thaksin and his wife Pojaman were allowed to travel to Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the...
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