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Aus plane evacuated after cockpit smoke, pilots hospitalised

Passengers of a Qantas Airline aircraft had to be evacuated and its pilots hospitalised on Monday after smoke was reported from its cockpit at Canberra Airport. According to media reports the Dash......

World's largest aircraft has an engine blowout

A Qantas Airlines A-380 aircraft made an emergency landing at Singapore's Changi Airport on Thursday. The double-decker plane, flight QF32 bound for Sydney from Singapore, was carrying 433......

Top moments from the week gone by

Here's a collection of some of the best photos, taken last week, from around the globe. Image: A lucky koala sat in first class on a trip from from Brisbane to Singapore as Australian airline......

Cooking oil powers Qantas aircraft

Australian airliner Qantas on Friday flew the country's first commercial biofuel flight between Sydney and Adelaide using a mix of conventional fuel and refined cooking oil. John Valastro of Qantas......

Satyam, TCS bag Qantas deal

Satyam Computer Services has signed a $71 million seven-year contract with Qantas for development and maintenance of over 150 applications across a wide portfolio of technologies.According to a......

Qantas staging a comeback

Qantas Airways is planning yet another comeback to India. The Australian carrier, which had withdrawn its services last year, is looking at restarting services ex-Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore......

Disasters force Qantas to slash jobs

Australian national airline Qantas on Wednesday announced slew of cost-cutting measures, including job reductions, retirement of older aircraft and a reduction in domestic and international......

Qantas direct Mumbai-Sydney flights soon

Airline major Qantas will operate direct services linking Sydney to Mumbai, beginning September this year in view of a double-digit spurt in the number of tourist arrivals from India.Qantas will......

How Ponting guided Punjab Kings' foreign players through crisis

IMAGE: Ricky Ponting stayed back in Delhi, but he also ensured that the PBKS' foreign players did not board the flight from the national capital on Saturday night. Photograph: BCCI Punjab Kings......

Sponsors put CA on notice as ball-tampering scandal engulfs a nation

IMAGE: Umpires Nigel Llong and Richard Illingworth confront Australia's Cameron Bancroft on Day 3 of the third Sunfoil Test match against South Africa at PPC Newlands in Cape Town on......

Margaret 'Courts' controversy again, says tennis 'full of lesbians'

‘Tennis is full of lesbians, because even when I was playing there was only a couple there, but those couple that led, that took young ones into parties and things’ ‘We're there......

Injured Starc ruled out of India series

Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc has been ruled out of the final two Tests against India by a stress fracture to his right foot, a huge blow for the touring side with the four-match series tied......

Smith not a cheat, he was guilty of negligence: Taylor

IMAGE: Disgraced Australia captain Steven Smith. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images Former skipper and serving Cricket Australia director Mark Taylor believes that tainted batsman Steve Smith......