Portugal probes alleged CIA flights (AP via Yahoo! News)
Portugal's attorney general is opening a criminal investigation into claims that CIA flights, some of them allegedly carrying terror suspects, made stopovers in the country, the state-owned news agency reported on Monday....more...Germany backs off on 'threat' to cancel Airbus contracts (International Herald Tribune)
The Germany government renewed calls for equally distributed cuts at Airbus, but backtracked on an apparent threat over the weekend by the economy minister to drop contracts if Germany suffered too many job cuts....more... Council OKs Lufthansa subsidy (Rocky Mountain News)
Denver will spend $1.2 million of airport money to help Lufthansa Airlines market nonstop flights between Denver and Munich, Germany....more... Wednesday, Feb 07, 2007 (Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau)
COLOGNE, Germany - Sitting on a platform bench in Cologne's cavernous main station watching his alleged co-conspirator step onto a train, the young Lebanese who's accused of plotting the deadliest terrorist attack in Germany's history finished his orange juice, stood up to throw the container in a recycling bin and rolled a heavy case toward Platform 4....more... Empire State Building Hosts Annual Race (WNYC New York Public Radio)
After four knee surgeries, 77-year-old Al Puma raced up 86 flights of stairs to the observation deck of the Empire State Building. The retired Brooklyn contractor speed-scaled New York's tallest bui.......more... Rezidor plans a new Radisson hotel at Hamburg Airport (Hospitality Net)
The Rezidor Hotel Group plans a new Radisson hotel at Hamburg Airport ? with an opening in July 2009. The Radisson Airport Hotel, a leased property, will have direct connection to Terminal 2 serving Lufthansa and other Star Alliance flights....more... Thick fog disrupts life at Osan, Humphreys (Stars and Stripes)
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea ? A dense fog that rolled into the Pyeongtaek region overnight forced school closings and delays Wednesday as well as temporary changes in flight operations at both Osan Air Base and Camp Humphreys....more... Wednesday, February 7 (CNN.com)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Seven Republican senators who are against President Bush's plan to increase troop levels in Iraq announced Wednesday that they will try to attach language from a resolution opposing the deployment to other legislation, in order to get around a procedural dispute that has stymied debate on the resolution itself....more... Pollution index to limit Zurich airport flights (NZZ)
Zurich's cantonal parliament has rejected putting a flat ceiling on flight movements at Switzerland's main airport in an ongoing row over noise pollution....more... |