Saudi court convicts 8 on terrorism charges

The official Saudi news agency said a court has convicted eight men on terrorism-related charges, including plotting attacks on an oil refinery.

The official Saudi news agency said a court has convicted eight men on terrorism-related charges, including plotting attacks on an oil refinery.

Hong Kong authorities said Monday they had launched an investigation after an airbridge collapsed at the city’s airport, ripping the door off a Cathay Pacific plane and injuring a technician.

An outbreak of vomiting and diarrhea has sickened more than 400 vacationers and crew members aboard two Christmas-time cruises in the Caribbean, the CDC said Saturday.

Twelve more domestic flights were grounded Wednesday due to bad weather. In its 9:50 am advisory, the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) announced the cancellation of Cebu Pacific flights to Caticlan and vice versa.

An Air Bagan flight made an emergency landing Tuesday on a road in central Myanmar, killing two people and injuring 11, officials said.

An All Nippon Airways flight from Tokyo’s Haneda airport overran the runway at a northern Japanese airport after the automatic braking system failed, reports said Sunday.

A concourse at Miami International Airport was partially evacuated after a man allegedly joked that he had dynamite in his luggage.

A day of transatlantic travel chaos loomed Sunday as airlines cancelled thousands of flights to and from airports up and down the US East Coast ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.

Authorities searched an airplane scheduled to depart from Los Angeles International Airport after someone called police and made a bomb threat.

A “peeping Tom” who used a pen-shaped camera to take an upskirt shot of a cabin attendant during a domestic flight in Japan has avoided charges after prosecutors failed to decide which prefecture the plane was flying over at the time, reports said.

Five Germans were among six people who died when a tourist bus slammed into a container truck near the Chinese capital and caught fire, state media reported Monday.

An Australian baggage handler had a nasty surprise when he opened the cargo door of a Qantas passenger flight to find a crocodile roaming loose in the hold, the airline said Monday.

Flights at three Washington-area airports were briefly stopped because of a fire at a regional air traffic control facility.