Snakes, birds found in airline luggage
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has fined a man $800 for flying dead snakes and birds inside his luggage from South Korea to Atlanta.
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Travelers showed up at airports with toiletries stored in zip-top plastic bags Tuesday as they tried to comply with new security rules allowing them to carry on small amounts of liquids and gels.
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U.S. airlines lost or mishandled more luggage in August as a security ban on liquids and gels put greater strain on baggage operations, government figures showed on Wednesday.
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Austrian Airlines Group, which owns Austria s largest carrier, is seeking 119 passengers from a flight last week that Belgian authorities said may have been exposed to bird flu from two infected eagles in a ...
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MADRID, Spain - Things people left on planes and at airports - more than 20,000 of them, including a wedding dress and a pair of rudimentary stilts - were auctioned off Tuesday in a big clear out of Madrid airport's lost-and-found department.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A 5-foot-long boa constrictor caught slithering around a middle school had some help getting to class. His owner, a student at Wooddale Middle School, smuggled the reptile in his backpack on Thursday. The student, who was not identified by school officials, was disciplined.
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Manila airport officials prevented a real life version of horror flick "Snakes on a Plane" this week when they stopped more than 130 reptiles, including poisonous cobras, from boarding a flight to Bangkok.
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Animal stolen from zoo found in raid on gang hideout, but two Arabic-speaking parrots still missing.
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(CBS/AP) Thousands of travelers spent their holiday weekend at airports waiting for flights that never took off, or looking for luggage in a sea of some ten-thousand lost bags, reports CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella.
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New water quality inspections on airliners were initiated Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency in response to the discovery of coliform bacteria in the drinking water of one in every eight planes it tested.
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Thieves armed with wire cutters and cages are snatching endangered species from zoos and private collections around the world, according to authorities.
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New restrictions on baggage at some UK airports could confuse passengers, it is feared.
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Planes find the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger jet that disappeared over the Amazon jungle.
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The garden gnomes looked innocent when they turned up in the mail, but Australia&#39;s notoriously tough customs officers gave them a good going over -- and found they were full of live snakes and lizards.
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A health official disinfects a quail farm where dead birds were found in Thailand&#39;s Suphan Buri Province, 130 km north of Bangkok.
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Austrian Airlines Group, which owns Austria&#39;s largest carrier, is seeking 119 passengers that Belgian authorities said may have been exposed to bird flu from two infected eagles in a carry-on bag from a flight last week.
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Australian officials found more than a dozen snakes and lizards stuffed inside garden gnomes and other ceramic statues during a recent international mail check, customs officials said Tuesday.