Headlines News

MANSTON, England (AP) -- Adventurer Steve Fossett completed the longest nonstop flight in aviation history with an emergency landing Saturday, flying 26,389 miles in about 76 hours but stopping early because of mechanical problems. Ground control said Fossett, 61, broke the airplane distance record of 24,987 miles while his lightweight experimental plane was flying over Shannon, Ireland. Generator problems then forced him to land the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer at Bournemouth International A ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American Airlines pilot was arrested in Britain on Saturday on suspicion of being drunk before a scheduled flight to Chicago, the airline said. A statement by the world's No. 1 airline said the crew member was a relief pilot on the Boeing 767-300 with 198 passengers, meaning he was a backup to the captain and first officer. The crew member was not identified. He was arr ...

STATESBORO, Georgia (AP) -- Donny Ray Harris Jr. died on a rural stretch of Interstate 16 while riding shotgun with an intoxicated friend who lost control and flipped his car. Now the 17-year-old is the first drunken-driving victim in Georgia to be remembered with an official highway marker, erected under a state law the governor signed just 13 days before the fatal crash. Roadside wooden crosses, flowers and other homemade memorials to victims of drunken-drivers are common across the country ...

By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - France beat Ireland 43-31 in a remarkable Paris encounter while England had to work hard to subdue Italy 31-16 in Rome in the second round of the Six Nations championship on Saturday. The Paris game was bizarre as France ran in six tries to lead 43-3 after 50 minutes without ever dominating. Ireland then hit back with four quick scores of their own to leave the hosts hanging on with the boos of their own fans ringing in their ears. Events went more to form ...

By Sumeet Desai MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chancellor Gordon Brown plans to make national security a priority for his next three-year spending review in order to convince voters they are safe under a Labour government. In a speech on Monday just days after his party lost the previously safe parliamentary seat of Dunfermline and West Fife, the constituency in which he lives, Brown will say tackling terro ...

TURIN, Italy (AP) -- Laura Bush said Saturday that Hillary Rodham Clinton's criticism of her husband's administration was "out of bounds," arguing that the former first lady should show some empathy for the current White House occupants. Leading the U.S. delegation at the Winter Olympics in Turin, the first lady talked about a range of subjects, from the violent protests across the Muslim world over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed to the quality of the U.S. Olympic team. She was interviewed ...

(CNN) -- Denmark is urging its citizens to leave Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, citing a threat from an extremist group over the publication of drawings of Islam's Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. Denmark's Foreign Ministry said it had received "a significant and imminent threat to Danes and Danish interests in Indonesia" from the group on Saturday afternoon. The Danish government also removed envoys from its embassies in Indonesia, Syria and Iran because of "concr ...

DARIEN, Connecticut (AP) -- Bottles of fruit juice that appeared to be tampered with were found at same drugstore where grape juice that sickened dozens of churchgoers had been purchased, police said. The bottles contained several different brands and types of juice and were found during an inventory check, police said Friday. The CVS store was shut down as a precaution, and other stores in the  ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's president said Saturday that an American missile attack last month killed a close relative of al Qaeda's No. 2 leader and a terror suspect sought by the United States. It was the first time that Gen. Pervez Musharraf has provided details about the terror suspects killed in the strike. Until now, he has only said that "foreigners" had died. "Five foreigners were killed in the U.S. attack in Bajur. One of them was a close relative of Ayman al-Zawahiri. And t ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett broke the record for long-distance flight without refuelling on Saturday, making an emergency landing in southern England after flying 26,389 miles (42,450 km), his team said. Fossett, a 61-year-old American, landed his specially designed GlobalFlyer aircraft -- with a wingspan as wide as an 11-storey building is tall -- at Bournemouth airpo ...