With 56.4 million passengers, Frankfurt was the world’s ninth busiest airport in 2011, according to airport trade organization, Airport Council International.

Serving Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt Airport is one of the world’s busiest international gateways.

Cleaning staff in Tokyo have seven minutes between arrival and departure to clean the world’s fastest train.

Falling market confidence has led to money fleeing peripheral eurozone nations such as Spain and mounting pressure on banks, raising the risks of a credit crunch and recession, the International Monetary Fund said.

Nearly eight years after Adelphia’s founder was among those convicted for essentially looting the cable company, fraud victims can now get their share of a record $728 million fund, the top federal prosecutor in New York announced Monday.