Indonesia's search and rescue chief said today he was "confident" two large objects detected under the Java Sea were the wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501.

A passenger on board an Istanbul-bound flight claimed there was a bomb on board and tried to hijack the plane to Sochi, Russia, where the Winter Olympics are kicking off, an official says.

Seattle girl escapes serious injury when glasses deflect bullet

Russia has blocked a Greenpeace ship from entering Arctic waters where the environmentalist group was planning to protest against oil exploration activities by Rosneft and ExxonMobil.

Russia has blocked a Greenpeace ship from entering Arctic waters where the environmentalist group was planning to protest against oil exploration activities by Rosneft and ExxonMobil, the group said.

Toyota, Honda and Nissan are recalling more than two million vehicles globally due to an air bag problem.

Bomb-making materials were found in an airport lounge after a threat was made against flights in Indonesia, officials said today.

A NEW bid to find the black box flight recorders from the Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic two years ago will get under way next month.

A roadside bomb apparently aimed at a senior Transport Ministry official missed its target and killed two bystanders instead, Iraqi officials said today.

European air safety watchdogs are proposing new rules that would reduce airspace closures due to volcanic ash.

The 157 passengers and eight crew members had barely finished sliding down the emergency chutes of the smoking China Airlines jet today when it suddenly exploded, and flames engulfed the centre of the craft.

Russia’s Transport Ministry said today that experts had discovered radiation on a Finnair plane in a Moscow airport.

A Russian cargo ship laden with timber destined for China sank in storm conditions in the Sea of Japan today and rescuers were searching for the ship’s 18 crew members, Russian transport officials said.

Russia today suspended all transport and postal links with neighbouring Georgia until further notice, the transport and communications ministries said.

The Armenian airliner that crashed into the Black Sea last month killing all 113 people aboard was intact, with its engines operating normally and enough fuel to land prior to impact, a Russian investigating commission said today.

Rescuers today continued the search for two passengers they fear may still be trapped under the wreckage of a train that jumped its tracks in northern Japan on Christmas Day, killing at least five people.

At least 28 people were killed today when a Russian airliner crashed.

Passenger and freight trains collided in thick fog in northern Italy today, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens.

Beleaguered Japanese car giant Mitsubishi Motors hid 26 defects in its cars from regulators to avoid issuing recalls for the vehicles, it admitted today.

Israel is to ban foreign airliners without bulletproof cockpit doors from flying over the country or landing at its airports from October. 31, a spokesman for the country's Ministry of Transportation said.

Looting surged and buildings were set on fire across Baghdad today while American troops focused more on fighting pockets of resistance than on keeping order.

Japan is preparing to overhaul its laws on car recalls in response to a massive cover-up of defective vehicles, according to a national newspaper.

Japan will revise a domestic law in a move to bar soccer hooligans from entering the country during next year’s World Cup, a government official said today.