US-Vietnam flight launched
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United Airlines (UA) on Thursday launched the first daily flight service to Vietnam from the United States since 1975. The flight represents the first such service by an American air carrier since the end
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Iraqi Airways resumed international flights Saturday when a plane took off from neighboring Jordan, the airline&#39;s first such flight since UN sanctions were imposed on Saddam Hussein in 1990.
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HANOI : Yesterday Vietnam, today Asia, tomorrow the United States: Vietnam Airlines has expanded to the point where it is even eyeing the huge American market, a move which would have been unthinkable not long ago.
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Nasa is due to launch an experimental jet over the Pacific today in a bid to reach a record 7,000 mph. The first X-43A flight failed in June 2001 when the booster rocket used to accelerate it to flight speed veered off course and had to be destroyed.
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Vietnam&#39;s President Nguyen Minh Triet kicked off his landmark visit to the United States Tuesday by visiting the world&#39;s largest stock market in a bid to demonstrate his country&#39;s economic reforms.
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_ For the first time since 1975, a US passenger jet is flying from the US directly to Vietnam. The United Air Lines flight with 347 aboard took off from San Francisco today and is scheduled
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Franceâs newest wonder, a British designed bridge that pierces the sky above the verdant hills of southern France, was officially inaugurated today as jet fighters roared overhead leaving a trail of red, white and blue smoke.
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US FORCES launched a large ground and air offensive against insurgents in Mosul yesterday in an effort to retake areas lost to the rebels in heavy fighting last week.
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Vietnamese-Americans living in St. Cloud are heralding the flight of the first US passenger jet to land in their homeland since the Vietnam War ended almost 30 years ago.
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A United Airlines plane landed in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, the first commercial American airliner to fly to the country since the Vietnam War.
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NASA&#39;s Swift satellite successfully launched today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 12:16 pm EST from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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The first US passenger flight to Vietnam since 1975 shows bilateral ties are &quot;right on track&quot; between old battlefield foes who still spar over human
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THE first commercial flight between the United States and Vietnam since their war 30 years ago landed yesterday to open a new chapter of cultural and economic exchange between the former foes.
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Beefed-up air patrols designed to intercept terrorists, drug smugglers and illegal aliens along the nation&#39;s northeastern border will be launched from a base commissioned Friday.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- United Airlines became the first US carrier to fly to Vietnam since the war ended nearly 30 years ago, marking a new milestone in relations between the former enemies as dignitaries on board were greeted at the airport with lotus blossoms and silk lanterns.
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Late Friday, a United Airlines  plane will arrive in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, marking the  first time that a commercial American airliner will be landing  in the country since the Vietnam War.
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The first U.S. passenger flight to  Vietnam since 1975 shows bilateral ties are "right on track"  between old battlefield foes who still spar over human rights  and trade, a Vietnamese spokeswoman said on Thursday.