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Kendall Jenner reportedly banned her half sister Kim Kardashian to attend her fashion shows, it has been revealed. The 18-year-old considered more famous sister Kim's presence in her shows a hindrance than any support, new reports suggest. She did not invite Kim for any of her fashion shows because she did not want people to think she is using her popular sister's name to get the assignments, Kendall's latest interview reveals.

Crystal Cruises, a luxury cruise operator, announced that it will offer an opportunity to take a trip to view the environmental devastation at the Arctic region and would set sail from Aug 16, 2016 to Sept 17, 2016.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has said it will be creating a task force on airline safety in light of the fatal downing of Malaysia Airlines MH17 over war-torn Ukraine. This, as the global aviation industry rallied that governments must relay or share intelligence information to avert future incidents on flying over war-zone declared areas.

Unexpectedly losing their loved ones to a senseless war was already painful. But families of the 298 victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 may have to endure one final blow, as authorities declared it may be already impossible to retrieve all bodies. The families may have to source from elsewhere their much needed closure.

reports of tragic aeroplane disasters have been all over the news lately, from the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine to the crash of Air Algerie flight 5017 in northern Mali. Vivid images of the crash sights and all the media attention have us all thinking that plane crashes are catastrophic unsurvivable events. Fortunately, that isn’t always the case. A study conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that the chances of surviving a plane crash are...

Data from black box of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has been recovered. The information from the flight data recorder suggests the Malaysia Airlines flight was hit by a missile before crashing. Also, the loss of MH17 and MH370 has led Malaysia Airlines to consider “renaming and rebranding.”

The choking doberman and other urban legends that are uniquely Australian.

The world has been shaken by a spate of air crashes in the past ten days that saw more than 500 casualties. The series of air crashes may have made many second-guess their future travel plans.

While the bodies of 51 Dutch citizens killed in the July 17 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were being repatriated back to The Netherlands on Thursday, within the same week, Maria Putin fled the country when Dutch found that the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin was living within their midst.

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands couldn’t contain her tears as the country welcomed the tragic victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash on Wednesday.

News headlines have been filled with stories of tragic airline disasters these past few weeks, from the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 that killed 298 people to the crash of a passenger plane in Taiwan, killing at least 48 people, and the crash of Air Algerie flight 5017 where no survivors have been reportedly found.

There were five Canadians among 105 others on the Air Algerie flight when it crashed in Mali.

After the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and crash of MH17, another aviation tragedy has left the world mourning. On Thursday, July 24, 2014, Air Algerie plane went missing few minutes after its take off from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. According to the latest update, wreckage of AH5017 has been found.

The global aviation industry has yet to recover from the twin blows caused by the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 on March 8 and the bombing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, another major air disaster looms as reports said an Air Algeria plane with 116 people on board is also missing.

Air Canada suspended flights to Tel Aviv due to the on-going violence in the Middle-Eastern region. Earlier major American airlines like US Airlines and Delta Air Lines cancelled scheduled flights for the same reason.

Only four months after disappearance of MH370, another Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 met with a horrifying tragedy. Boeing 777 was carrying 298 people in the plane from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when the plane was reportedly shot down, killing all the people onboard. No one knows why it happened. However, several conspiracy theories that claim to explain what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are swirling around. While some believe in them, some are skeptic about its authenticity.

Refloated Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has embarked on its final voyage as it rolled out of the port of Giglio for the very last time. It is expected to arrive at the port of Genoa on Sunday, at which it will began a 2-year dismantling and scrapping operation.

Global anger grows at Russia, believed to be behind the Moscow-initiated missile hit on Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 that took 298 lives, but many Russians are unaware of that. The reason is because they are being bombarded by a constant diet of conspiracy theories regarding the aviation tragedy, with Ukraine being pictured as the culprit by Russian media.

Soon after mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, another tragedy occurred that will haunt people around the world forever. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 believed to have been shot down in the Ukrainian skies on July 17, 2014 killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew members onboard. The incident has led to the rise of speculations. The biggest question that remains unanswered is who shot MH17 and why. According to the latest update, Russian TV channel is accusing the U.S.’s C...

More than four months after the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously disappeared on March 8 after it left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, until today, various theories regarding the incident continue to swirl, with not one proven to be correct or dispelled.

The black boxes or flight recorders of downed Malaysia Airlines MH17, an essential electronic recording device placed in an aircraft that would greatly facilitate investigations in the event of an aviation accident or incident, are finally in the hands of Malaysian authorities.

In what appears to be a direct effect of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, a Malaysia Airlines commercial aircraft has been shot down in Ukrainian air space and has crashed in rebel-held territory in the Donetsk region. The plane has been identified as flight MH17.This attack follows two other reported attacks on aircraft over Ukrainian airspace in the past week. The nationalities of the passengers on MH17 have also been released by the airline.

A pro-Russia separatist leader has claimed that the Malaysia Airline flight MH17 was filled with dead bodies even before it took off on Thursday.

Like the first Malaysian Airlines tragedy that rocked the global aviation history in March, the downing on Thursday, July 17, of Flight MH 17 is wrapped in mystery, resulting in several conspiracy theories about the downing and subsequent plane crash that took 298 lives.

The two Malaysian Airlines tragedies have produced heartbreaking as stories of pain and grieving over the loss of loved ones spread around the world. It has also spawned heartwarming stories of travelers having cheated death because of a last-minute change in flight or overbooked flight that resulted in lack of seats. Those whose lives were spared are so thankful for a second chance in life. However, for a Dutch cyclist, the gratitude is double because he was prevented from boarding two Malaysia...

While 298 lives were lost on Thursday when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was hit by missiles from Ukrainian rebels, a few lucky lives were also spared because of last-minute decisions that these travelers would forever not forget.

At least two passengers of the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 had premonition that something bad was going to happen to their plane based on a video that one of them posted on Instagram before take-off and a joke that another traveler wrote on his Facebook newsfeed.

A fact-finding mission from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is on its way to the crash site after it was granted access to the area, OSCE said in a tweet. It has been monitoring the crisis in Ukraine, which had denied that the missiles used to hit the Malaysian Airlines jet carrying 298 passengers and crew came from the country.

A family from Queensland in Australia would probably shun buying tickets from Malaysian Airlines after another jet of the embattled air carrier had an air mishap on Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard the aircraft. The Burrows from Biloela have barely recovered from their March 8 loss, and now two more losses in the family involving the same airlines.