TORONTO (Reuters) – WestJet Airlines Ltd , Canada’s second-largest carrier, said on Tuesday its January load factor, or the percentage of available seats filled with paying customers, was a record 80.9 percent, up from 79.9 percent a year before. Traffic, as measured by revenue passenger miles, climbed 7.7 percent year over year, while capacity, which is measured in available seat miles, was up 6.4 percent from a year before. …
Danish critic of Islam says gunman shot at him
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A gunman tried to shoot a Danish writer and prominent critic of Islam on Tuesday, but missed and fled after a scuffle with his intended victim, police and the writer said. La Scala censures music critic at Milan daily known for biting commentary
MILAN – La Scala opera house has taken the unusual step of censuring a music critic from the Milan daily Corriere della Sera known for his biting commentaries.
Palm trees and borscht? Sochi a different world than Vancouver
The 2014 Sochi Olympics are just a year away. And they’re a world away from the last Games in Vancouver. Here’s a look at five things you’ll find in Sochi, Russia, that you probably wouldn’t have seen in Vancouver:
Construction boss grilled over gifts to union boss
MONTREAL – Quebec’s corruption inquiry is grilling a construction boss about his relationship with a man who once ran Quebec’s most powerful construction union.
IMF says Bank of Italy was vigilant on Monte Paschi
ROME (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that it believed Italy's central bank did a good job in its oversight of crisis- hit Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Italy's third largest bank. "The IMF team's prel iminary view is that the Bank of Italy took timely and appropriate action – within the limits of the legal framework – to address problems at MPS," the IMF's chief spokesman Gerry Rice told Reuters. "Oversight was close and supervisory action escalated appropriately as MPS's problems became acute," Rice said in a written statement. … Sochi cha-ching: Putin defends most expensive Olympics ever
The Russian-hosted Sochi winter Games, now just one year off, are five times over budget and on track to be the most expensive Olympics in history. There's an estimated $50-billion price tag before the opening event kicks off.
France to host meeting on Libyan security next week
PARIS (Reuters) – Countries that helped oust Muammar Gaddafi will meet in Paris next week to discuss how to stabilize Libya, which has been beset by security problems since the late dictator was toppled, French sources said on Tuesday. France, which led international efforts to oust Gaddafi, will convene ministers and senior diplomats from the United States, Britain, Arab nations, the United Nations and European Union to Tuesday's meeting in Paris. The French foreign ministry said the agenda would include "security co-operation, the legal system and the rule of law". … Russian wardens throw party for Stalin's gulag
MOSCOW (AP) -- Millions of people died in Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s gulag, but the 75th anniversary of the founding of one of the notorious forced-labor camps was cause for a celebration in Russia.
BP expects Whiting refinery upgrade benefits in 2014
HOUSTON (Reuters) – BP Plc is not likely to see the full financial benefits of the $4 billion upgrade at its Indiana refinery until 2014, Chief Executive Bob Dudley told analysts on Tuesday. He said the project, which will substantially increase the 405,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Whiting plant’s ability to process cheap Canadian heavy crude, remains on target to wrap up in the second half of 2013. The restart and commissioning process will take six to nine months after that, he said. …
Police: Gunman fires at Danish anti-Islam writer
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A gunman tried to shoot a Danish writer and prominent critic of Islam on Tuesday, but missed and fled after a scuffle with his intended victim, police and the writer said. Egypt's top cleric voices Sunnis' worries of Iran
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's most prominent Muslim cleric, the sheik of al-Azhar, has warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against interfering in Arab Gulf countries or trying to spread Shiite influence. UN report urges human rights probe of North Korea
GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. investigator for human rights in North Korea urged the world body Tuesday to open an inquiry into the secretive Asian nation for possible crimes against humanity. British Museum puts art from the Ice Age on show
LONDON (AP) -- The art world loves hype. Works are touted as the biggest, the rarest, the most expensive. UK: Surveillance devices to monitor Web traffic
LONDON (AP) -- The U.K. plans to install an unspecified number of spy devices along the country’s telecommunications network to monitor Britons’ use of overseas services such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a report published Tuesday by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee.
Expert panel: Ireland oversaw forced, unpaid labour in Catholic laundries for 'fallen' women
DUBLIN – An expert panel has found that Ireland should be legally responsible for workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once kept thousands of women and teenage girls against their will in unpaid, forced labour.
White House calls on Europe to take 'proactive action' to disrupt Hezbollah
WASHINGTON – The White House is calling on Europe to take “proactive action” to disrupt the Hezbollah organization following an investigation that tied the group to the bombing of a bus filled with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year.
Bulgaria says Hezbollah behind fatal bus bombing
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria said on Tuesday it had evidence showing that Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah carried out a bomb attack on a bus in the Black Sea city of Burgas that killed five Israeli tourists last year. The conclusions of the Bulgarian investigation, citing a clear connection to an attack on European Union soil, might open the way for the EU to join the United States in branding the Iranian-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organization. … Gang of armed masked men rapes 6 Spanish tourists in Mexican resort of Acapulco
ACAPULCO, Mexico – A gang of armed, masked men are being sought by Mexican police after they burst into a rented home in the Mexican resort of Acapulco and raped six Spanish tourists.
FAA evaluating Boeing request to conduct test flights of grounded 787 Dreamliners
WASHINGTON – Federal regulators say they are evaluating a Boeing request to conduct test flights of its 787 Dreamliners, which were grounded nearly three weeks ago after a battery fire in one plane and smoke in another.
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