RYANAIR wants to reach an agreement to purchase 200 aircraft by the end of the year in a deal that could be worth close to €9 billion.

A BURST of last-minute automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device, but that does not explain what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation expert said.

A burst of automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 before it crashed into the Atlantic includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device, an expert said.