A Delta IV rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida on Thursday evening carrying a communications satellite to be used by US and Australian military forces.
Six US Marines were killed late Thursday evening when a helicopter belonging to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force crashed in southern Afghanistan.
At least seven people were killed on Thursday afternoon when a suicide bomber attacked an airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said. Several others were injured.
Southwest Airlines announced on Friday that it will erase Allentown, Lexington, Harrisburg, Sarasota, Huntsville and White Plains from AirTran's route map this August, while the carrier's remaining 22 cities transition to South...