Montevideo / AFP A cheap flight from Paris to Madrid will set you back about $100. But it costs six times that to cover the same distance in Latin America, where low-cost airlines are only just taking off. Latin America has long lured travellers with its history, music and natural beauty spanning from Mexico’s deserts to the Amazon rainforest …

  BEIJING / AP China vowed on Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, by around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020. “To explore the vast cosmos, develop the space industry …

  Paris / AP After finding possible survivors and victim remains, the first priority of air crash investigators is to locate the black boxes, a duo of data recorders that can hold vital clues on why an aircraft went down. Despite their name, the boxes that hold a plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recordings are actually bright orange with …