‘Mahatma Gandhi's legacy is vital in today's world'

The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, whose non-violent struggle led to an independent India and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom around the globe, is vital in today's world where the rights of too many people are still violated, top United Nations officials said on October 2, the Mahatma's birthday.

Marking the second annual International Day of Non-violence UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that this year's celebration falls during the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Among those present was India's Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

There is a profound philosophical connection between the fundamental principles of human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration and those practiced by Mahatma Gandhi," Ban told a ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York.

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7th anniversary of 9/11: Pentagon memorial's opening brings closure for many

Surely no one who had seen the Pentagon burning seven years ago could have envisioned the scene that unfolded there on September 11.

When the dedication ceremony for the Pentagon Memorial ended about 10:30 a.m. and the dignitaries had left in their motorcades, the families of Sept. 11 victims began filing into the park, searching for the steel and granite memorial benches with the names of their loved ones. They carried flowers, balloons and photographs, and soon, a festive, almost celebratory mood began to take hold among a group long accustomed to spending the day in sadness.

It was the children who set the tone, really, treating the austere objects like playground equipment rather than representations of the dead. They ran among the rows of benches, playing with the water in the pools below and sliding down their smooth, arcing outlines, a stone's throw from the spot where American Airlines Flight 77 tore into the western side of the Pentagon seven years ago, killing 184.

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Aviation AeroSvit Ukrainian Airlines celebrates 5 years New York - Kyiv service

AeroSvit Ukrainian Airlines celebrated the 5th anniversary of its trans atlantic flights from Kyiv to New York at The Helen Yarmak Penthouse Showroom in New York City on April 17.

The airline expanded its services to New York on March 30, 2003, creating its premier non-stop flight from Kyiv to New York's JFK airport. Since 2003, the flights and passengers coming from Kyiv to New York have increased by 150 percent, the press release stated. AeroSvit increased from its two weekly flights at inception to five weekly flights in 2008.

In today's global market, AeroSvit has nearly doubled the number of its worldwide destinations from 26 to over 50 from 2003. The airline's international destinations include Baku, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Dubai, Moscow, Salonika, Sofia, St. Petersburg, and Tel Aviv.

The airline has code-share partnerships with American and Delta airlines. In the United States, the airline's partnerships have helped increase the number of routes from 13 to 40 U.S. airports since 2003.

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