VANCOUVER, Nov 17, 2007 (AFP) - Some 650 people attended the funeral Saturday of a Polish emigree who died at Vancouver airport after police stunned him with a Taser, a disturbing incident that was videotaped by a bystander and shown around the world.

'We were quite surprised. People came from everywhere,' said Kamloops Funeral Home employee Lawrence Schrader. The funeral home owner, Zofia Cisowski, also the mother of the 40-year-old victim, Robert Dziekanski, had planned for 100 mourners, he said.

SINGAPORE, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - Singapore's Changi Airport International (CAI) said it has signed a contract to prepare a masterplan for development of the King Hussein International Airport in Jordan.

The plan will lay out development of the airport and surrounding land in the resort town of Aqaba -- a gateway to the Petra heritage site -- to meet expected bigger demand for passenger and air cargo traffic, CAI said in a statement issued late Thursday.

MONTREAL, Oct 18, 2007 (AFP) - A man suspected of drunk driving died in hospital overnight after police used a taser to subdue him, in Canada's second recent death plugged to the 50,000-volt stun guns, authorities said Thursday.

According to reports, Quilem Registre, 39, had been stopped Sunday for driving erratically, ramming his car into several vehicles, then became aggressive during questioning by police.

He was taken to hospital for an examination, and died later of heart and kidney failure.

LONDON, Oct 15, 2007 (AFP) - Two aircraft collided on the ground at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday evening, an airport spokesman told AFP.

'Heathrow Airport can confirm that two aircraft were involved in an incident on the ground earlier this evening,' the spokesman said.

'There are no reported injuries and passengers are in the process of being offloaded from the aircraft.'

VANCOUVER, Canada, Oct 15, 2007 (AFP) - A man died on the weekend at Vancouver airport, Canada's main Pacific hub, following a scuffle with federal police, authorities said Monday.

Sergeant Pierre Lemaitre of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) told AFP they subdued a man in his late 30s or 40s with a taser and detained him for behaving wildly at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday (0830 GMT) in the arrivals area.

He died shortly afterwards.

FRANKFURT, Oct 12, 2007 (AFP) - Fraport, which operates six airports including the biggest German airport in Frankfurt, said Friday that passenger traffic had grown overall by 3.6 percent in September to 7.572 million people.

The results were boosted in particular by stronger traffic at Frankfurt's second airport, Frankfurt-Hahn and in Lima, Peru, a statement said.

Frankfurt-Hahn, which is served by low-cost carriers Ryanair, Wizz Air and Iceland Express, recorded a 10.0 percent gain in the number of passengers.

Lima airport saw a 26.8 percent increase.

MUMBAI, Oct 4, 2007 (AFP) - Air traffic control officials in Mumbai said Thursday they were investigating a power failure that left them unable to direct planes over India's financial capital for several minutes.

The incident on Wednesday morning saw controllers at Mumbai's airport biting their nails as electricity was cut and battery back-up devices failed to kick in.

Around 20 flights were in the air at the time of the black-out, although no accidents or delays were caused by the incident.

BAGHDAD, Sept 28, 2007 (AFP) - US forces have detained three senior workers at Baghdad international airport suspected of involvement in kidnappings and attacks on Iraqi and American troops, the US military said on Friday.

The three were arrested at the airport Thursday, a military statement said.

'The corrupt workers are suspected of having positioned themselves in several high-level jobs at the airport to establish a base and conduct kidnapping operations against Iraqi Security Forces and innocent civilians,' the statement said.

BOSTON, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - A 19-year-old female student was arrested at gunpoint at Boston airport Friday after walking into the terminal with what authorities believed to be a bomb strapped to her chest, police said.

The woman had a computer circuit board, a battery and exposed wires in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt, state police major Scott Pare, the commanding officer at the airport, told reporters.

NEW YORK, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - A 19-year-old female student was arrested at gunpoint at Boston airport on Friday after walking into the terminal with a fake bomb strapped to her chest, according to US media reports.

Star Simpson had a computer circuit board, wires and a putty that turned out to be play-dough in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt she was wearing, CNN television reported.

Simpson is a student at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the report.