Air Asia orders 10 Airbus A350 jets at Paris Air Show

October 1st, 2009 LONDON - Michael Jackson's daughter Paris believes that her father buckled under the strain of preparing for his huge 50-show 'This Is It' tour, it has emerged. Paris, 11, has reportedly told her aunt La Toya that gig bosses worked her father into an early grave, reports The Mirror.

September 25th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - American singer Chaka Khan will be honoured in Malaysia for her contribution towards unifying the world via music. The 56-year-old songtress will be receiving The Brand Laureate Brand Personality Award from The Brand Laureate initiated by The Asia Pacific Brands Foundation (APBF).

September 8th, 2009 China showcases commercial jet at Asia air showHONG KONG — China showcased its newest and biggest commercial plane Tuesday — a jetliner with as many as 200 seats that could boost the country's fledgling aviation industry to compete with Western rivals like Boeing Co. and Airbus. The narrow-body, single-aisle C919 plane is scheduled to take its maiden voyage in 2014 before being delivered to buyers in 2016, according to Wang Wenbin, an official with the plane's manufacturer, state-backed Commercial Aircraft Corp.

August 31st, 2009 Vietnamese art exhibition to premiere in HoustonHOUSTON — An exhibition of Vietnamese art, with more than 100 objects never before seen in the U.S., will premiere at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Sept. 13. It will remain on view through Jan.

August 25th, 2009 NEW YORK - Paris Hilton's on-off boyfriend Doug Reinhardt is reportedly desperate to land a contract with MTV's 'The Hills'. The baseball player, who makes cameo appearances for free, was said to have made frantic pleas to the producers to cast him.

August 20th, 2009 Oprah fesses up to Cape Cod pie-buying spreeBARNSTABLE, Mass. — Oprah Winfrey is fessing up to her love of a Massachusetts pie company's creations.

June 20th, 2009 Sarkozy wants new European rocket launcherLE BOURGET, France — French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Saturday for a Europe-wide effort to design a new-generation rocket launcher to replace the Ariane-5. Sarkozy was visiting the Paris Air Show, where the most visible landmark is an Ariane mock-up soaring above the crowds.

June 19th, 2009 Air show minnows find success amid industry gloomLE BOURGET, France — Leandro Silva e Abreu didn't sign any of the multi-million-euro orders that make headlines at the Paris air show, but for the 22-year-old Brazilian the event was still a huge success. Silva e Abreu's company, Aeroarte, is one of a record number of small and mid-sized companies from around the world that help make Paris' Le Bourget air show the world's biggest, for whom success and failure isn't measured by the lucrative contracts — or lack thereof — that have been the media's focus all week.

June 19th, 2009 Airbus to sell 10 A321 jets to Paramount AirwaysLE BOURGET, France — European jet maker Airbus said Friday it has agreed to sell 10 A321 planes to Indian airline Paramount Airways. The memorandum of understanding signed with Paramount also includes an option for an additional 10 of the single-aisle, short-to medium-range passenger jets, Airbus said in a statement.

June 19th, 2009 Airbus sees bottom of industry slumpLE BOURGET, France — Airbus CEO Tom Enders was in high spirits on Friday, saying the unexpected crop of orders won at the Paris Air Show shows the heart of the aviation industry is still beating despite the recession. Unlike archrival Boeing Co.

June 18th, 2009 Airbus extends air show order lead over BoeingLE BOURGET, France — Airbus extended its lead over arch-rival Boeing Co. in the hunt for orders at the Paris Air Show on Thursday with the signature of two deals with Chinese and Hungarian airlines.

June 17th, 2009 Boeing gets first Paris Air Show orderLE BOURGET, France — Boeing Co. says it has won an order for two of its updated 737-800 jets from aircraft leasing company MC Aviation Partners, the U.S.

June 16th, 2009 French: Search for Flight 447 to continueLE BOURGET, France — The arduous mid-Atlantic search for the remains of Air France Flight 447 will go on as long as there is hope of finding the plane's black boxes, the French defense minister said Tuesday. Herve Morin and his Brazilian counterpart Nelson Jobim met at the Paris Air Show and shared notes on progress of the search, which includes the Brazilian military, a French submarine and Dutch ships towing two high-tech U.S.

June 15th, 2009 Qatar Airways orders 24 Airbus A320 jetsLE BOURGET, France — Airbus SA scored Monday its first order of the Paris Air Show from Qatar Airways, which will take 24 jets from the Airbus A320 family for $1.9 billion. Qatar Airways' head, Akbar al-Baker, announced a firm order for the planes, including 20 single-aisle A320s and firmed up orders for four A321 jets announced tentatively last year at the Farnborough Air Show.

June 8th, 2009 Paris Air Show set to take off despite crisisPARIS — Organizers of next week's centennial Paris Air Show said Monday the world's biggest aviation industry gathering won't be diminished by the global economic crisis, which has hit the aviation industry hard. Organizers expect around 300,000 visitors this year, half of which will be professionals, about the same as the last show in 2007 — despite notable no-shows such as business jet makers Gulfstream and Cessna.