Two F-16 fighters have been put on alert to escort an airliner bound from U.S. Atlanta to San Francisco after a disruptive passenger locked himself in a lavatory.

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 00:45 GMT

The U.S. Armed Forces plans no military presence in Yemen as there was no request at all from an interested party

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 02:23 GMT

Road accidents in China decreased by 10.1% in 2009 against the last year, with the death toll and the number of injured dropping by 7.8 % and 9.8% respectively

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 02:48 GMT

Three drunk passengers have been arrested and taken off a flight en route from London to Emirates

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 04:16 GMT

A coalmine fire in eastern China's Jiangxi Province has left 12 people dead, news agency Xinhua said on Saturday citing local authorities.

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 05:42 GMT

Russia's Air Force will develop in 2010 a civil aviation safety program that should more than halve aviation accidents, a Defense Ministry department said in a statement on Saturday.

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 06:48 GMT

Russia plans to launch its fastest train, Sapsan, between Moscow and the country's fourth largest city of Nizhny Novgorod in the summer, the head of the Gorkovskaya railway said on Saturday.

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 07:57 GMT

An Austrian man has set fire to his newly redecorated house in attempt to rid it of a mouse, Austrian radio said on Saturday.

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 09:10 GMT

Kazakh customs officers have seized undeclared arms from a shipment of second hand cars going from the U.S., a spokesman for the customs control committee at the ex-Soviet stateâ™s Finance Ministry said on Saturday. </p>

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 10:01 GMT

A portion of an old five-storey building collapsed in Mumbai, India's largest city, on Saturday, PTI reported.

// Jan. 09, 2010 - 16:11 GMT