Spain partly closes air space due to volcanic ash cloud

MADRID/HAMBURG - Spanish aviation authorities Saturday closed the air space over northern Spain as a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland arrived in the region.

European air travel normalises after ash chaos

HAMBURG - Air travel across Europe is set to normalise Thursday after days of airspace closures and cancelled flights caused by an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano.

Skies opening for aviation over Europe

LONDON/COPENHAGEN/HAMBURG - More airports in Europe, including many in Britain and Germany, reopened Wednesday, almost a week after airspace over large parts of Europe was shut down over ash clouds from a volcano in Iceland.

School where Pope\’s brother taught is linked to sex abuse

HAMBURG - A boarding school in Germany which was once headed by Georg Ratzinger, the brother of Pope Benedict XVI, says it is checking out a claim that a teacher committed sex abuse in the early 1960s.

More than 111,000 deaths confirmed in Haiti quake

NEW YORK/HAMBURG - The death toll from the earthquake in Haiti has reached over 111,000, the latest official figures showed Saturday.