Hanoi / Tribune News Service The opening of direct flights between India and Laos aims to enhance people to people contacts between the two Asian neighbours. Lao News Agency recently quoted India’s ambassador to Laos, Ravi Shankar Aisola as saying the direct flights between India and Laos were in the final stages of approval and very soon there would ...

  Berlin / Bloomberg Frankfurt airport is investing 100 million euros ($113 million) in a series of upgrades that includes yoga rooms, playgrounds and a forest-like recreation area to make passengers more comfortable and hence more willing to spend money at the shops. Airports around the world have increasingly transformed into family-friendly malls to lift earnings amid restrictions and competition ...

  New York / AFP The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Spain on Thursday morning after completing a 70-hour flight from New York in the first solo transatlantic crossing in a solar-powered airplane. Applause broke out as the experimental plane set down at Seville airport in southern Spain just before 7:40 am (0540 GMT) where a team was on the ...