British Defense Secretary Liam Foxon Monday announced that the Royal Air Force has agreed to buy more than a dozen new Chinook helicopters worth $1.64 billion for its mission in Afghanistan.
Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that investigators had recovered the cockpit voice recorder of the Superjet 100 that crashed in Indonesia last week, killing all 45 people onboard.
A US Airways flight made an emergency landing in Omaha, Nebraska early Sunday after experiencing electrical malfunctions, but none of the passengers or crew members were reported injured.