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Air Canada apologizes for bumping 10-yr-old from flight

  CHARLOTTETOWN / AP Air Canada is apologizing to a Canadian family after the airline bumped a 10-year-old boy from a flight. Brett Doyle booked four tickets from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island to Costa Rica for his family last August. A day before the vacation during March break, Doyle says he checked his family in for the flight online, but ...

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In a quest to revive love for books

  BAGHDAD / AP The Iraqis guarding Baghdad’s many checkpoints, on the lookout for car bombs and convoys, don’t know what to make of Ali Al Moussawi when he pulls up in a truck displaying shelves of glossy books. The mobile bookstore is the latest in a series of efforts by the 25-year-old to share his passion for reading and revive ...

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UAE fully committed to oil production cuts

  DUBAI / WAM Suhail bin Mohammed Faraj Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy, said the UAE sees a healthy level of demand for crude oil in the future from emerging economies in Africa and Asia, and that UAE would remain commercially-minded in its strategic oil investments. Al Mazrouei’s comments came during a session on the region’s oil policy moderated ...

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