The first private aviation school in West Africa to train Senior High School graduates into full Commercial Pilots has been established in Ghana. Read the full story

Radiation leaked from an unstable Japanese nuclear reactor north of Tokyo on Saturday, the government said, after an explosion blew the roof off the facility in the wake of a massive earthquake Read the full story

Prince Andrew will have to decide whether he can continue his role as a trade envoy amid a controversy about his links to a convicted pedophile, a British Cabinet minister said Monday. Read the full story

Spain has been branded the most addicted country in Europe, with 3.1 percent of its population aged between 15 and 65 believed to be cocaine users. Read the full story

Libyan rebels vowing “victory or death” advanced toward a major oil terminal on Friday, calling for foreign air strikes to set up a “no-fly” zone after three days of attacks by Muammar Gaddafi’s warplanes. Read the full story

Two US Air Force servicemen have died after a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying American military personnel at Frankfurt Airport, police say. Read the full story

British fashion designer John Galliano will stand trial for allegedly making anti-Semitic comments in Paris last week, French prosecutors have said. Officials said a trial could take place later this year. Galliano could face up to six months in prison if convicted. Read the full story

Using cannabis as a teenager or young adult increases the risk of psychosis, a report suggests. The study published in the British Medical Journal involved tracking 1,900 people over a period of 10 years. Read the full story

Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti has died after gunmen opened fire on his car in the capital Islamabad. He was travelling to work through a residential district when his vehicle was sprayed with bullets, police said. Read the full story

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Jews and Zionists are “trying to push the US into war” and are a cover for Satan, at the group’s annual meeting near Chicago on Tuesday. Read the full story

UK researchers have demonstrated the highest-resolution optical microscope ever – aided by tiny glass beads. The microscope imaged objects down to just 50 billionths of a metre to yield a never-before-seen, direct glimpse into the “nanoscopic” world. Read the full story

Brazilian police have been questioning a man accused of driving his car at high speed through a crowd of cyclists, injuring at least 12 of them. Read the full story

The US has put China’s top search engine Baidu on a list of “notorious markets” for counterfeit and pirated goods. The US Trade Representative (USTR) accused Baidu of steering consumers to third-party websites where pirated material is hosted. Read the full story

The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Saturday arrested a notorious rhino poacher who killed more than 15 rhinos in Chitwan for the past few years Read the full story

A small aircraft has crashed at the Al-Ain International Airport in the west of the United Arab Emirates, leaving at least four people dead, the country’s General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) says. Read the full story

The civil aviation industry, which was hit hard by the global financial meltdown and high fuel cost, saw a strong recovery in 2010 with the domestic passenger traffic rising 19 per cent to 51.53 million, the Economic Survey said today Read the full story

The Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has revoked a woman pilots licence alleging that she used forged papers to get her airline transport pilot licence (ATPL),which is mandatory for an aircraft captain Read the full story

A private jet that flew four international businessmen to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where they are being held on gold-smuggling allegations was provided by CAMAC International, a Houston oil-trading company owned by one of the city’s richest men and a brother of one of the passengers Read the full story