A large fire destroyed a departures terminal at Medan airport in Indonesia's North Sumatra province late yesterday, police said.
A police officer in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, said the cause of the fire was unknown.
"No one was injured in the fire and fire fighters have managed to put out the blaze at a departure terminal," the police officer said.
Television footage showed the domestic departures terminal at Polonia airport badly damaged as fire fighters struggled to douse the flames.
Plane makes emergency landing
A plane carrying 110 Italian tourists made an emergency landing at Cairo's international airport yesterday after the cockpit windshield splintered, Egyptian state media said. One Italian tourist was lightly injured during the landing when his jaw hit the seat in front of him, causing swelling, state news agency MENA said.
MENA said the charter plane had been heading to the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh from Milan when the glass in the cockpit splintered while flying over the Egyptian capital.
The captain requested an emergency landing. MENA did not say what caused the glass in the cockpit to crack or whether the plane depressurised.
'Taiping Four' return home
Cameroon has welcomed home four endangered western lowland gorillas known as the 'Taiping Four', following an international campaign that won their return from Malaysia, where they were illegally smuggled five years ago.
The four, a male and three females, were flown to Douala airport late on Friday from South Africa, where they had been kept at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria after the Malaysian government sent them back to Africa in 2004.
Malaysia's Taiping Zoo had acquired the apes after they were trapped as infants in Cameroon's forests in 2002 and illegally smuggled out of the central African country.
Palestinian HIV doctor weds
A Palestinian doctor, who had faced execution in Libya over accusations of infecting hundreds of children with HIV, married a Bulgarian yesterday as he sought a new start after eight years in captivity.
Ashraf Alhajouj, 38, and five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death on charges of deliberately starting an HIV epidemic in Libya were freed on July 24 after the European Union brokered a co-operation deal with Tripoli.
The six have always maintained their innocence and said they confessed under torture.
The grey-haired Alhajouj met his future wife, 30-year-old engineer Olya Megova, a week after his liberation and said he fell in love at first sight. Several weeks later he proposed.