[ad_1] Record rains that inundated the United Arab Emirates and neighboring countries, killing at least 18 people in Oman and crippling air travel in Dubai, were expected to continue into Wednesday, officials said. Dubai typically records around five inches of rain a year. Only the deluge that fell Tuesday afternoon equaled that amount. For the … Read more
[ad_1] For two and a half hours on Wednesday, German border agents faced an unlikely enemy: the Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star turned former governor of California, found himself on the wrong side of customs at Munich International Airport when a routine inspection uncovered a luxury watch that the action star had not declared. … Read more
[ad_1] Two planes collided Tuesday at an airport on Japan’s snowy northern island of Hokkaido, according to the airlines involved, just weeks after a deadly fire on the Tokyo runway. No one was injured in Tuesday’s collision, which involved Korean Air and Cathay Pacific planes. It happened around 5:30 p.m. local time at the new … Read more
[ad_1] Munich airport resumed limited operations Sunday morning after being closed for nearly a day due to record snowfall that disrupted transportation across the region. About 43 centimeters of snow fell in parts of southern Germany on Saturday, an unusually large amount for early December, and what local media reported was the highest daily snowfall … Read more
[ad_1] As developing countries weigh the consequences of borrowing heavily from China for major infrastructure projects, anti-corruption officials in Nepal have launched an investigation into a landmark airport financed and built by Chinese state-owned companies. Nepal’s $216 million international airport in Pokhara, the country’s second-largest city, opened in January. China agreed to provide loans to … Read more
[ad_1] Flights in and out of Hamburg airport in Germany were canceled until further notice after authorities responded Saturday night to an armed man who drove his vehicle onto the runway and parked it near a plane, precipitating a confrontation that It continued through the night. About 10 hours after the confrontation, which began around … Read more
[ad_1] A Washington state senator was arrested at a Hong Kong airport on charges of possession of a firearm not registered locally, his office said Monday. Jeff Wilson, a Republican who represents parts of southwestern Washington state, discovered the gun on his flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong when he reached into his briefcase … Read more
[ad_1] For six months, the disappearance of $17.2 million in gold bars and cash from a warehouse at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport has remained a mystery. Now, a lawsuit has given the public insight into the robbery victim’s view. In April, Peel Regional Police, responsible for the airport, announced that a special container containing valuable … Read more