Archive by category World

It used to be fashionable for restaurant waiters to finish a dish tableside, usually by dousing it with alcohol and setting it alight, before portioning and …

AirAsia X, a Malaysian long-haul budget carrier, was ordered to refund a customer and retroactively apply its updated refund policy by a local court Tuesday, …

(AFP) The hunt for a missing AirAsia passenger plane appeared over Tuesday as wreckage and dozens of bodies were spotted at sea off Indonesia, prompting raw …

More planes will be in the air and more ships on the sea Tuesday hunting for AirAsia Flight 8501 in a widening search off Indonesia that has dragged into a …

The pilots sought permission to climb above threatening clouds. Air traffic control couldn’t say yes immediately _ there was no room. Six other airliners …

Indonesia has requested help from the United States to search for a missing AirAsia jetliner, US officials said Monday, amid fears the aircraft crashed into …

The United States stands by an FBI finding that North Korea was responsible for the hacking attack on Sony Pictures despite reports suggesting somebody else …

KABUL ― The war in Afghanistan, fought for 13 bloody years and still raging, came to a formal end Sunday with a quiet flag-lowering ceremony in Kabul that …

KUALA LUMPUR ― Malaysian mogul Tony Fernandes, who transformed a floundering carrier into Asia’s biggest budget airline, faces his first major crisis after …

DANJIANGKOU, China (AFP) ― A towering dam in central China holds back a vast expanse of water destined to travel over 1,000 kilometers north to Beijing, but …