Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian apologized for a computer failure that halted flights for several hours and grounded thousands of passengers as the second-biggest U.S. carrier struggled to restart its worldwide operations. More than 100 flights are expected to be canceled Tuesday morning, about 200 could be delayed and those numbers could grow overnight, ...

  Sydney/ AFP MH370 plunged into the ocean at high speed — up to 20,000 feet a minute — reinforcing analysis that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the current search zone, a report said Tuesday. he Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people onboard. An extensive underwater hunt ...

  Bloomberg Singapore has put on hold a decision to buy as many as 12 of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 jets, according to information from the Pentagon’s program office. The island nation’s permanent secretary of defense development informed the US in mid-June that it was delaying final steps toward purchasing four of the fighters by about 2022, with an option ...

  Bloomberg Gap Inc., the biggest US apparel-focused retailer, fell in late trading after posting July comparable sales that missed analysts’ estimates and indicated that foot traffic at its stores might not improve as much as expected later in the year. Same-store sales — a key benchmark — dropped 4 percent in July, the San Francisco-based retailer said in a ...

  Jakarta/ AFP The main airport serving the Indonesian capital Jakarta has opened a new terminal that will allow the overcrowded aviation hub to handle tens of millions more passengers a year. Air passenger numbers are soaring in Indonesia, the world’s biggest archipelago nation and Southeast Asia’s top economy, as a growing middle class increasingly chooses to fly but ageing ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong real estate shares haven’t been this hot since the city’s last housing bubble burst almost two decades ago. The industry’s benchmark equity gauge has surged 37 percent from this year’s low in January, climbing to the highest level versus Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index in 19 years on July 29. The last time property companies performed ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s biggest developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd., outbid 10 other companies with a HK$2.4 billion ($305 million) offer for a site, as builders selectively add to their land banks. The price for the land offered by the government in the New Territories district works out to about HK$5,450 per square foot of saleable area, according to ...

  Bloomberg Russia and Iran agreed to strengthen transport connections, including a potential railway link through Azerbaijan that would aim to grab a share of the cargo now being shipped through the Suez Canal. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, discussed the plan during a rare joint visit to Azerbaijan on Monday. The fight against terrorism ...

  DETROIT / AP Ann and Oscar Mack had fallen behind on property taxes and knew they faced foreclosure on their home of 20 years. But they didn’t know their house on Maiden Street, in a blighted east side Detroit neighborhood, was already listed for auction. No one “let us know we were about to lose our house,” Ann Mack ...

  Bloomberg Wal-Mart Stores Inc. agreed to buy e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc. for about $3.3 billion and put founder Marc Lore in charge of the combined company’s online operations, marking the retail giant’s strongest bid yet to compete with e-commerce leader Amazon.com Inc. The deal includes $3 billion in cash and $300 million in shares that will be paid over ...