International

  • High drama in UK airspace

    Friday, 24 May, 2013
    A Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft is seen parked on the tarmac at Stansted Airport

    Two arrested after PIA flight forced to land due to mid-air alert — LONDON — British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines plane after fighter jets were scrambled to escort it to a London airport yesterday following an "incident". Police said the men were detained on suspicion

  • BA jet makes emergency landing

    Saturday, 25 May, 2013
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    LONDON — A British Airways plane with 80 people on board made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow airport yesterday after the right engine burst into flames shortly after take-off and the casing ripped away from the left. The British carrier, part of IAG, said all 75 passengers and five crew m

  • Seattle-Vancouver bridge collapse

    Saturday, 25 May, 2013
    I-5 Bridge Collapses On Skagit River In Washington

    WASHINGTON — A bridge on one of the busiest interstate highways of Washington State, in the north-western US, collapsed late Thursday, tossing cars and passengers into a river. Three people were injured but there were no fatalities in the incident, according to police. Authorities said that the harr

  • ‘Furlough Friday’ hits US federal employees

    Saturday, 25 May, 2013

    WASHINGTON — The first day of US government furloughs imposed by a budget crunch saw more than 100,000 federal workers ordered to stay home yesterday, including those at the scandal-plagued IRS. The largest non-weather-related US government closure in years saw nearly all employees at the Department

  • 8.3 quake rocks Russian Far East

    Saturday, 25 May, 2013

    MOSCOW — A massive undersea earthquake yesterday in Russia's Far East prompted a tsunami warning and unleashed tremors across Russia including in Moscow around 10,000 kilometres away, but caused no casualties or damage. The USGS estimated the quake at 8.3 magnitude and placed its epicentre in the Se

  • Leading social network banned by ‘mistake’

    Saturday, 25 May, 2013

    MOSCOW — Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned yesterday in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as President Vladimir Putin consolidates his power. VKontakte, Europe's largest homegrown social network with 210 million re

  • Commercial lunar ventures planned

    Saturday, 25 May, 2013

    CAPE CANAVERAL — Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time Nasa astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled shows. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by Nasa, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various compani

  • Taliban launch attack in Kabul

    Saturday, 25 May, 2013
    Children run away after an explosion in Kabul

    KABUL — Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul yesterday as the Taliban launched an attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms. The attack comes a week after a suicide car bomb targeting a foreign military convoy killed

  • Sharif to face 100-strong opposition in lower house

    Saturday, 25 May, 2013

    ISLAMABAD — The numerical strength of the opposition parties in the 342-member National Assembly, put together, will cross the 100 mark with the inclusion of the reserved women and minority seats. This tally will further swell by at least a dozen members if Maulana Fazlur Rehman's Jamiat Ulemae Isla

  • Pyongyang committed to N-talks: Kim’s envoy

    Saturday, 25 May, 2013

    BEIJING — A North Korean envoy told China's president yesterday that his reclusive country was willing to take "positive actions" to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks. But Choe Ryong-Hae, a special envoy of North

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