Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, is reportedly in a coma-like condition and close to death at his home in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
When the father of a four month old boy was given a small package containing a flight log onboard the child's first flight, little did he know it would spark a lifelong passion for commercial aviation.
Scores of people were feared to have been killed after a passenger plane crashed in the western Democratic Republic (DR) of Congo on Wednesday morning, officials said.