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A senior Qatar Airways executive has told an Australian Senate inquiry that there will be no repeat of an incident at Doha’s international airport in 2020 in which female passengers were subjected to invasive gynecological examinations CANBERRA, Australia -- A senior Qatar Airways executive told an Australian Senate inquiry on Wednesday there would be no repeat of an incident at Doha’s international airport in 2020 in which female passengers were subjected to invasive gynecological examinations . Australian Transport Minister Catherine King said three weeks ago that the examinations of 13 Australian women who had boarded a Qatar Airways plane to Sydney were a factor in her decision in July to refuse the Qatar government-owned airline additional flights to Australia. Qatar Airways Senior Vice President Matt Raos described the incident, which occurred when authorities were looking for the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned in a Hamad International Airport trash can, as "a...

A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a COVID-19 outbreak has been ruled negligent in an Australian class-action case CANBERRA, Australia -- A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a major COVID-19 outbreak was ruled negligent in its duty of care to passengers in an Australian class-action case Wednesday. The Ruby Princess ocean liner left Sydney on March 8, 2020, with 2,671 passengers aboard for a 13-day cruise to New Zealand but returned in 11 days as Australia’s borders were closing. COVID-19 spread to 663 passengers and claimed 28 lives. Passenger Susan Karpik was the lead plaintiff in the case against British-American cruise operator Carnival and its subsidiary Princess Cruises, the ship's owner. Federal Court Justice Angus Stewart ruled that Carnival had been negligent as defined by Australian consumer law by allowing the cruise to depart in the early months of the pandemic. He said Carnival had a duty to tak...

A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 passengers has run aground off the coast of Greenland. LONDON -- A luxury cruise ship carrying 206 passenger s has run aground off the coast of Greenland. The Ocean Explorer, a 104.4-meter (343-foot) long and 18-meter (60 foot) wide ship ran aground on Monday near Alpefjord in the Northeast Greenland National Park -- a 375,000 square mile area that is the most northerly national park in the world. Although no injuries and no damage to the ship have been reported, officials are taking this incident very seriously. MORE: Cruise line apologizes after dozens of whales slaughtered in front of passengers “Our units are far away, and the weather can be very unfavorable,” said Cmdr. Brian Jensen of the Joint Arctic Command, according to the Associated Press. “Arctic Command has been in contact with the cruise ship Ocean Explorer, which has stated that they are still grounded in the National Park, read a statement from the Joint Arctic Command posted on soci...

Search crews on Monday recovered the black boxes from Yeti Airlines NYT 691, which crashed in Nepal on Sunday with 72 people on board. KATHMANDU and LONDON -- Search crews on Monday recovered the black boxes from Yeti Airlines NYT 691, the short-haul flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday with 72 people on board. Both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recover ed as more than 300 people combed the site of the crash , near Pokhara International Airport, officials said. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder are displayed after they were retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan 16, 2023. Anish Bhattarai/AP One additional body was recovered, bringing the death toll to 69. Three people were still counted as missing on Monday, although officials said they didn't expect to locate survivors. The search-and-recovery mission has been made more difficult because much of the wreckage from the downed plane was i...