Regulators Order Inspections for Entire Airbus A380 Fleet

PARIS — European air safety regulators on Wednesday ordered inspections of the entire fleet of Airbus A380 jets for tiny cracks in a wing component, extending a directive that had applied to only about a third of the 68 superjumbos in service. 

The news that the A380 wing bracket cracks could be more widespread comes at a time when Airbus's chief rival, Boeing,

Europe cold snap claims 260 lives

THE death toll from the vicious cold snap across Europe has risen to more than 260, with hundreds having to be rescued after a ferry caught in a snow storm hit a breakwater off Italy. 

 

Ukraine has suffered the heaviest toll with 122 deaths, including many who froze to death in the streets as temperatures plunged to as low as minus 38.1 degrees Celsius.