Five coast guards killed in plane collision at Japan's airport

In a devastating incident at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday, a Japan Airlines aircraft collided with a Japan Coast Guard plane, resulting in a fiery crash that claimed the lives of five coast......

Japan PM's Ukraine visit overshadows Xi-Putin talks, upsets China

China on Tuesday hit out at Japan after its Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Ukraine and overshadowed Chinese President Xi Jinping's meeting with his Russian counterpart......

Beautiful images from the Smithsonian's photo contest

From the ruins of a Syrian city to shamans, these are just some of the 60 breathtaking images selected as finalists in Smithsonian Magazine's 16th Annual Photo Contest.  The magazine received......

PM Modi accorded warm welcome on his arrival in Japan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said his meeting with Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe will add new vigour to the strong friendship between the two countries as he arrived in Tokyo to......

World's 10 busiest airports

Four airports from United States figure in the list of world’s busiest airports. Photograph, courtesy: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport     The passenger traffic......

Japan's ANA grounds all 17 Boeing 787s for emergency inspections after fire

All Nippon Airways is grounding all 17 of its Boeing 787 planes for inspection after one of its Dreamliners made an emergency landing in western Japan on Wednesday, the Japanese air carrier told......

Passenger traffic rose by 21% at Delhi airport in 2011

Delhi airport witnessed an impressive 21 per cent growth in passenger traffic in the Asia Pacific region which registered a 5.7 per cent increase in terms of it in 2011 as compared to 2010, a......

Mumbai to get country's 1st monorail by 2010

Commuters in Mumbai caught in traffic jams are expected to get some relief in the near future with the Maharashtra government planning to introduce the country's first Monorail here by 2010.......

Olympics: Poland grant Belarus athlete humanitarian visa

'The head coach came over to me and said there had been an order from above to remove me.' A Belarusian opposition politician said Belarus officials had told Tsimanouskaya's mother that her......

Olympics: COVID-19 in Russian rugby camp, team isolating

IMAGE: Police officers patrol around the arrival gate at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Tuesday Following a surge in coronavirus infections in Tokyo, the government has placed the capital in its......

Serbian athlete tests positive on arrival in Japan for Olympics

The report comes after two members of the Ugandan Olympic delegation tested positive for the coronavirus last month upon arrival in Japan. One tested positive at Narita airport near Tokyo, but the......

Plane leaves Japan to collect Olympic flame, no 2020 delegates aboard

IMAGE: A member of the airport staff wearing a mask walks past the 'Tokyo 2020 Go' aircraft, before it departs for Greece, to transport the Olympic Flame back to Japan. Photograph: Issei......

Olympic flag arrives in Tokyo, governor calls for unity

IMAGE: Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike waves the Olympic flag as she walks out of a plane during a ceremony to mark the arrival of the Olympic flag at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday.......