Country music icon, actress and philanthropist Dolly Parton dedicated her life to giving back to her home state of Tennessee, and now, three days after her death, her state is ready to give back to her, renewing an earlier proposal to rename the Nashville International Airport in her honor. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and the
Fifty eggs suspected to be those of endangered parrots were intercepted at South Africa’s main airport in Johannesburg last Thursday – and some of them have now hatched. A 50-year-old Thai national was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle them in a “homemade incubator bag” carried as hand luggage, according to the Department of Forestry,
A Frankfurt Airport worker has died of malaria after a rare outbreak led to six employees contracting the serious infection spread by mosquitoes. It is believed the mosquitoes arrived at Germany’s busiest airport on a plane, according to German public health officials. The remaining five infected individuals are receiving medical treatment, a spokesperson for airport
Singapore has charged a British man for theft more than two years after he allegedly stole a denim jacket from a store at the airport shopping mall. The police were alerted to the theft in the evening of 14 August 2024 when a retail assistant at Singapore’s Changi Airport realised a blue denim jacket was
One person has received medical treatment after a passenger’s laptop caught fire on an American Airlines flight. The pilot had reported a “cabin fire in the back of the airplane” to air traffic control, saying “the flight attendants are trying to put it out now”, according to audio obtained by the BBC’s US reporting partner
Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the most recent deluge was brought by warm, humid air flowing into the country’s east that combined with cold air above to make atmospheric conditions extremely unstable. The rains are expected to last through late on Friday. “This case was an extremely unusual situation, even by Japan’s historical weather standards,” Chiba
