A row over a meal on a passenger jet escalated into what the pilot took to be a bomb threat, forcing him to make an unscheduled stop in the United Arab Emirates.

A massive British oil tanker collided with another carrier in the Gulf of Oman today, but no oil was spilled.

Two massive oil tankers collided early today, 15 miles off the United Arab Emirates port of Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman, oil sources said.