200,000 Titanic-related records are published online
The documents provide information about survivors and the 1,500 people who died, including a number of wills and hundreds of coroner inquest files. The collection has been gathered by the subscription-based family history website Ancestry.co.uk. However, access to the Titanic records collection is free until 31 May 2012. The Titanic, which was built More...
Frankfurt night flight ban upheld
A German court on Wednesday ruled in favor of a night flight ban at Frankfurt airport, Europe’s third busiest, dealing a blow to German flagship airline Lufthansa and airport operator Fraport. Lufthansa says More...
‘Ancient’ Greek statue found is fake
An “ancient” Greek statue found in a sheep pen north-west of Athens last week has now been deemed a fake. At first, archaeologists at Greece’s Culture ministry thought the figure of a woman dated More...
EU bans Libyan airlines over safety concerns
The EU has banned all Libyan airlines from its airspace until November at the earliest because of safety concerns. The ban was agreed with Libya’s civil aviation authorities, a European Commission statement More...
Russia’s UTair grounds ATR 72-200 planes after crash
Russia’s UTair Aviation has suspended all its flights of ATR 72-200 aircraft until it knows the results of an investigation into a deadly crash in Siberia, the company said on Tuesday. A 21-year-old UTair More...
TripAdvisor complains about Google to EU regulators
Online travel agency TripAdvisor has asked EU antitrust regulators to halt what it calls anti-competitive practices by Google, adding to more than a dozen complaints being investigated by the European Commission. The More...
UK air passenger duty rises by 8%
Air passenger duty (APD) has risen by 8%, as announced by the government in the Autumn Statement last year. For short-haul flights, the tax has increased from £12 to £13. For long-haul flights of more than 4,000 More...
Power restored to stranded cruiser
Engineers have restored propulsion power to a cruise ship carrying about 1,000 people after it was left adrift off Indonesia by an engine fire, cruise company Azamara Club Cruises said. The ship is now sailing directly More...