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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese public broadcaster NHK issued a false alarm about a North Korean missile launch on Tuesday, just days after a similar gaffe caused panic in Hawaii, but it managed to correct the error within minutes. It was not immediately clear what triggered the mistake. Related Searches Missile Alert False Alarm HawaiiHawaii Missile False AlarmFalse Missile Alert HawaiiMissile Launch HawaiiBallistic Missile Alert Hawaii "We are still checking," an NHK spokesman said. NHK's 6.55 p.m. alert said: "North Korea appears to have launched a missile ... The government urges people to take shelter inside buildings or underground." The same...

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan passenger jet with more than 100 people on board was missing after it failed to land at the Kabul airport, a company official said Friday. The Kam Air (search) Boeing 737 took off Thursday afternoon from the western city of Herat bound for the capital, Kabul, but was unable to land because of bad weather, said Feda Mohammed Fedayi, the airline's deputy director