‘Suicidal’ mechanic steals, crashes empty plane from Seattle airport
SAN FRANCISCO: A ‘suicidal’ mechanic stole an empty passenger plane from the Seattle-Tacoma airport late Friday, took it for a…
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Bear Force One: VIP koala takes seat on UK flight
LONDON: A koala scaled new heights this week after flying by passenger plane from Germany to Scotland to become Edinburgh…
US wildfires threaten populated areas
LAKE ELSINORE, United States: Authorities battling massive wildfires in large swathes of California issued mandatory evacuation orders and health warnings…
Death toll from Lombok earthquake tops 380
MATARAM, Indonesia: An earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has killed 387 people, authorities said yesterday, adding hundreds of…
Kerala on high alert after floods kill 34
KOCHI, India: More than half of the 14 districts in India’s Kerala state have been put on high alert, officials…
Four new Congo Ebola cases as medics prepare experimental treatment
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo: Four new cases of Ebola virus have been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,…
Mali’s Keita on track for second term in election runoff
BAMAKO: Malians vote on Sunday in a presidential runoff expected to return Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to the helm of a…
Gaza protest death toll rises to three
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: A 40-year-old Palestinian hit by Israeli fire during protests on the Gaza border died of his…