Officials last year admitted they had bought no spare parts for months because of lack of funds.Kam Air was Afghanistan’s first private airline and was generally better regarded by expatriates and Afghans, many of whom preferred its relatively cheap fares to risking long, bumpy journeys on dangerous roads notorious for accidents and banditry.It started [...]

Celebrities, it went on, such as Margaret Drabble, Phil Tufnell and Vanessa Feltz were among their satisfied customers. If I wanted the names of other famous people who had been on their courses, I should check out their website.Wow, what a brilliant way of finding out whether a holiday will be any good. Wild [...]

The council was still considering its response.However, some say the Spa controversy is just part of a bigger picture, in which the city is suffering from poor planning, bad traffic and parking management and problems with litter, graffiti and public drinking, which means it is failing to measure up to competitors such as Edinburgh [...]

“The Iranians would sooner fight in Baghdad than in Tehran,” said one Iraqi analyst.It is unclear how far the initial returns will reflect the outcome. Arnault as a French self- made billionaire], bought Chateau Latour, Bernard Arnault had to have a leading chateau of his own. Baron Frere reputedly drinks only water but he [...]

BRITAIN MADE repeated efforts to free Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s one-time deputy, from Spandau prison but each time were thwarted by the Russians, show newly released documents on the internment of Adolf Hitler’s former deputy. Letters sent by the British military in Berlin also accuse Hess’s Soviet guards of mental cruelty. Several times in [...]

The 1961 vintage goes for a relatively modest pounds 750 to pounds 950. At auction, you could expect to pay up to pounds 3,700 for a bottle of Cheval Blanc 1947 (100 out of 100 in the Parker scoring system). Chateau Petrus, across the fields, uses 97 per cent merlot in its famous wine [...]

The owner of the Amsterdam and Paris stock exchanges, among others, is looking to insert the London market into that list and saw its bidding rival, Deutsche B?, drop out last week. However, these results are unlikely to make for pretty reading, with analysts expecting a slide in profits after trading revenues fell and [...]

It was a high point for the upmarket foodstores – and surely a low one for Mr King. After all, Waitrose was once just a small part of the John Lewis Partnership and trailed Sainsbury’s as the middle class’s favourite grocer.
Now, however, and as Waitrose’s market share continues to grow, its annual sales have [...]

Most trial observers were betting heavily on the singer’s acquittal – if only because the family had a track record of switching stories and lying under oath, introducing at least an element of doubt into their accusations against him.Now, though, all that is thrown into doubt, and the world is reminded once more of [...]

Sukawaty envisages a handheld unit with support for internet telephony, known as Voiceover IP (Voip).Inmarsat, though, needs its I-4s to regain lost ground from the low-orbit satellite operators, such as GlobalStar and, at the high end, VSAT systems.”The competition in satellites today is from hand-portable voice, which we don’t have. That has put us [...]