Los Angeles airport closed after torch explosion
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A spokesman said part of Los Angeles International Airport was shut down amid security concerns. Airport officials said terminals 6, 7 and 8 were closed following an incident when a person went up the exit
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A huge fire engulfed the cargo section of Istanbul&#039;s Ataturk International airport on Wednesday, blocking air traffic and causing hundreds of panicked people to flee, television reports said.
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The LA County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to close Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center&#39;s trauma unit, dealing a blow to community leaders and other protestors, including UCLA medical students, who fought to keep it open.
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Los Angeles International Airport  was shut down on Saturday after an apparent security breach, an  airport spokesman said.
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An explosion went off Sunday at an airport in Kenya&#39;s capital, wounding at least two people Sunday and prompting authorities to seal off the facility to air traffic, witnesses said.
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LOS ANGELES - Four terminals at Los Angeles International Airport were shut down for more than three hours Saturday after a passenger bypassed security at one terminal and two flashlight batteries exploded during screening at another, authorities said.    The incidents, about a half-hour apart, were apparently unrelated and there was no link to terrorism, according to the federal Transportation Security Administration...
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HALIFAX -- The cargo jet that crashed in flames off the end of a Halifax International Airport runway last week had two engines replaced in the weeks leading up to the accident, investigators revealed yesterday.
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Israeli warplanes struck the runways of Beirut's international airport in the Lebanese capital's Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, forcing the closure of the facility, police and airport officials said.
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A security breach and a flashlight  battery explosion shut down four terminals at Los Angeles  International Airport for nearly four hours on Saturday,  delaying dozens of flights and clogging traffic for miles on  surrounding city streets.
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LOS ANGELES -- Airport operations were back to normal early Wednesday following a radio failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility that tied up travelers for hours.
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Flights to and from Los Angeles area airports were halted because of an outage at a radio- communications facility. The Federal Aviation Administration halted all departing flights
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QUEENSLAND, Australia - Mackay Airport in Queensland, Australia, was closed for about an hour because of a simple sex toy. A vibrator was thought to be a bomb.
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Explosions and a fire at an industrial unit in northwest England prompted authorities to shut down a section of a major highway for several hours Monday morning, police said.
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Dubai airport shuts down, after a Bimam flight to Dhaka has a minor accident on take-off, leaving 14 injured.
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CASTAIC, Calif. - A fast-moving wildfire prompted the closure of Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles on Monday, as firefighters worked to keep the flames from crossing the roadway.
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Firefighters extinguished a blaze that tore through a chemical storage depot at Jebel Ali port in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the second fire in two weeks at a cargo port in the Gulf Arab oil exporter.
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Los Angeles International Airport was shut down for more than four hours on Saturday after a reported security breach but federal officials said no terrorism was suspected.