The friendly tone of a 29-year-old airport worker who stole a commercial plane Friday night, performing acrobatic stunts before the fatal plunge into a thick island forest, belied his desperate actions.
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Nine people were killed and 15 injured in a blaze that broke out today at a hospice for the terminally ill near Taiwan’s capital Taipei, fire officials said.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister said today he will seek to cancel multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed infrastructure projects that were signed by his predecessor as his government works to dig itself out of debt.
North and South Korea agreed today to hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, the South’s Yonhap news agency reported following high-level talks in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula.
The death toll from the earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok a week ago has passed 400 and the government is estimating economic losses of at least several hundred million dollars.
Siechem Madurai Panthers, who were winless throughout last two seasons, completed a miraculous comeback this season with the seven-wicket win in the 2018 Sankar Cement-TNPL final against Dindigul Dragons at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on Sunday, Aug 12.
Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Umashankar Singh has claimed that he has received an email demanding Rs 1 crore ransom from the underworld. The mail, he said, has a photo of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim attached.
Torrential rains and landslides during India`s June-September monsoon season have ravaged farmlands and prompted massive evacuation efforts in Kerala.
A “suicidal” airline mechanic stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night, officials said.