Nursing staff today said the teenager believed to be the only survivor of a Yemeni jet crash is "doing well" in a hospital in Comoros.

Bad weather is believed to have been the main cause of the crash today of an Airbus A310 plane in the Indian Ocean.

A toddler was rescued alive today from the wreckage of an airliner that crashed trying to land in the Comoros islands, police said.

ETIHAD Airways has extended its global network by providing Irish customers for the first time with access to Yemen, following the signing of a new agreement with Yemen Airways.