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Boeing's comments about the smouldering batteries on its 787 have annoyed the National Transportation Safety Board. Boeing gave its own account of two battery incidents, which included a fire, at a detailed press briefing in Tokyo last week.

PHILADELPHIA - "The Burghers" are back.

PHILADELPHIA - "The Burghers" are back.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is designating five new national monuments, using executive authority to protect historic or ecologically significant sites —including one in Delaware sought by Vice-President Joe Biden.

It's not the longest parade in the world, but the swan celebration in Stratford, Ont., may be one of the quirkiest.

ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif. - The black-and-white photographs show a line of prisoners — some with heads bowed, others with eyes staring forlornly at the camera — as a guard leads them to a boat for their final trip off The Rock.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Indonesia's top discount carrier, which catapulted into the global aviation spotlight with record deals to buy Airbus and Boeing planes, is taking the battle for Asia's budget-minded travellers to the backyard of the airline

ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif. - The black-and-white photographs show a line of prisoners — some with heads bowed, others with eyes staring forlornly at the camera — as a guard leads them to a boat for their final trip off The Rock.

AMSTERDAM - The Dutch capital has plenty to celebrate this year, most notably the April 13 reopening of the magnificent Rijksmuseum after 10 years of renovations and, after a shorter facelift, the May 1 reopening of the neighbouring Van Gogh Museum.

PHILADELPHIA - A mounted wooden fish. Dog figurines. Colorful soap carvings of clowns and Santa. A wallet made of interwoven cigarette packs. It sounds like a bad garage sale — until you get to the shivs. And the century-old mug shot book.