Apr 19 Oklahoma City Commemorates 15th Anniversary of Bombing By Anna Shoup Fifteen years ago today at 9:02 a.m., a bomb detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla. In total, 168 people died, including 19 children, and more than 600 were injured in what was at the… Continue reading
Apr 19 Monday: Flight Disruptions Continue; Court to Hear Campus Group's Appeal Stranded travelers sleep at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris on Monday, as main French airports remain closed. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images.) Lawmakers and aviation officials across Europe faced growing criticism Monday, as air travel across the continent… Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch In Europe, Costs Mount From Quiet Skies as Volcano Eruption Continues Officials announced limited air traffic may resume on Tuesday, five days after volcanic ash grounded much of the air traffic in and out of Northern Europe. Ray Suarez reports from London. Continue watching
Apr 17 Ray Suarez: Life Under a Cloud LONDON | Another day. Another clear blue sky. And another cancelled flight because of what's lurking above that clear blue sky. I was just about to write this post, about the airport closings, the delays, the crammed ferry landings,… Continue reading
Apr 16 Meteorologist on Ash and Airplane Risk By Larisa Epatko The Icelandic volcano, located under a glacier, is spewing water vapor and fine-grained ash that can be damaging to aircraft engines. Derrick Ryall of the British Meteorological Office explains the challenges of measuring the size of the plume, where it… Continue reading
Apr 16 Kyrgyzstan President Resigns and Flees Country By Larisa Epatko Interim government officials in Kyrgyzstan confirmed Friday that they had received President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's resignation before he fled to neighboring Kazakhstan with his wife and two young children. Continue reading
Apr 16 Friday: Europe's Travel Delays Worsen; Same-sex Partners Get Hospital Rights A woman at Erfurt Airport in Germany reads about the volcano that is disrupting travel across Europe. (Photo by Jens-Ulrich Koch/AFP/Getty Images.) The wide-scale disruption of air travel across much of Europe only got worse on Friday as… Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch Icelandic Volcano Eruption Continues to Disrupt European Airspace An ash plume from an erupting glacial volcano in Iceland continues to cause problems for airports worldwide. Ray Suarez reports from London on the dangers the volcanic ash poses for air travel. Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch 'Krakatoa' Author on Iceland Volcano's Parallels With Eruptions Past For historical perspective on the Icelandic volcano eruption, Jeffrey Brown talks to Simon Winchester, author of "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883," about the massive 19th century eruption's impact on health, the economy and even art and… Continue watching
Apr 15 Sudanese Await Results of National Elections By Larisa Epatko A five-day voting period in Sudan ended Thursday, and ballot-counting was set to begin, in national elections considered an important step for the country's democracy but marred by allegations of fraud and opposition party boycotts. Continue reading