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Concerned residents called police and fire services to report the sound of explosions

Adults can be punished by death for homosexuality 

It comes after several stewardesses said they would defy instructions by company chiefs to wear headscarves in Tehran

The airline is filing a lawsuit for 'reckless endangerment'

Six people being questioned after suspicious device found on aircraft

Two suspects held by Kenyan authorities

Plane diverted after device found in bathroom. 

World View: Both France and its flagship airline have failed to adjust to global competition

Around 100 workers, mostly from the ground and mechanical staff, stormed a management and union meeting 

Ground staff will strike for two hours on Monday in protest but their anger is directed as much at pilots as at management

Security services received intelligence of plans to blow up a flight between Caracas and Paris

The man who pays his way

Each week we invite three companies to offer us their best deal for a specific break. Today: Brazil for Rio Carnival. Prices are per person, based on two sharing, and include 10 nights' B&B, flights from Heathrow to Rio in February 2013, transfers and a one-day Sambadrome ticket.

Inadequate pilot training by Air France and mistakes by a young co-pilot contributed to a mid-Atlantic Airbus disaster in June 2009, an official report indicated yesterday.

Pilot error is emerging as the most likely cause of the crash of the Air France Rio-Paris airbus which plunged into the South Atlantic in June 2009, killing all 228 people on board.