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Plane's landing gear catches fire landing at Moscow airport
There were tense scenes on Moscow airport today as passengers were evacuated as a plane's landing gear caught fire. The jet, carrying 140 passengers, caught fire while landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport. No one was hurt in the incident, the latest in a litany of air traffic accidents in Russia, which holds some of the world's worst air-traffic safety...
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Rising levels of obesity in middle age could cause a major rise in the number of dementia sufferers, researchers have warned. The risk of having dementia almost doubles with midlife obesity, the UK Health Forum said. Dr Laura Webber and Tim Marsh...
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Nine held over Turkey car bombings
Turkish citizens believed to have links to the Syrian intelligence agency have been detained in connection with twin car bombings that shattered a Turkish border town yesterday, officials said. Turkey's prime minister insisted the country would not...
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Bulgaria holds Parliamentary poll
Bulgarians are voting in parliamentary elections, with no party expected to win a majority to form a government, fuelling fears of more political and economic instability in the financially strapped Balkan nation. Some 6.9 million eligible voters...
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40 die in China coal mine blasts
Forty miners have died in two separate coal mine explosions in south-western China, authorities said. Twenty-eight miners were killed in a blast on Saturday afternoon at a coal mine in Sichuan province, provincial officials said. They said 108...
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Syria denies car bombs involvement
Syria's information minister has rejected Turkey's allegations that his country was behind two car bombs that killed 43 people in Turkey and wounded dozens more. Information minister Omran al-Zoubi told a news conference that "no-one has the right...
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Pope canonises new saints
Pope Francis has given the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonisation ceremony before tens of thousands of people in St Peter's...
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Bible copier nearing his revelation
A New York man who has spent years writing out every word in the Bible is finally penning the last lines. Phillip Patterson, 63, of Philmont, began copying the complete King James Bible in his neat, looping handwriting in 2009. He spent two years...
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Sharif stages comeback in landmark Pakistan election
Toppled in a 1999 coup, jailed and exiled, Nawaz Sharif makes election comeback and is heading for a third term as Pakistan's prime minister. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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Prince Harry joins wounded warriors
Prince Harry offers support to wounded warriors in US tour. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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Khan, Sharif appear ahead in Pakistan election count
The parties of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan appeared to be well ahead of their rivals in Pakistan’s election, according to a partial count of votes cast yesterday. The election, in which 86 million...
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Car bombs kill 30 in Turkish town near Syrian border
Twin car bombs in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli near the border with Syria killed more than 30 people yesterday, Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin said. “The number of people who were killed or injured is more than 100 now. More than 30 people...
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Egypt says thwarts suicide attack on foreign embassy
Egyptian security forces thwarted an al-Qaeda-linked group’s plan to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy and captured several militants, the Interior Minister said yesterday. Mohamed Ibrahim, speaking in a televised news conference,...
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Trade tower reaches symbolic height
The World Trade Centre’s rebirth in New York City has long revolved around creating symbolism on the site of tragedy: a 541-metre skyscraper that is a homage and a bold statement about looking forward. Now the new One World Trade Centre has reached...
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Hosni Mubarak back in court for a retrial
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was back in court yesterday for a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters, reopening a case that has shown the difficulty of transitional justice in post-revolutionary Egypt. Mubarak and...
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Centre-left in Italy picks ex-unionist as interim party leader
Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD), reeling from infighting that forced the resignation of Pier Luigi Bersani last month, chose former trade union boss Guglielmo Epifani as party secretary yesterday. The party’s two most prominent leaders,...
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G7 to press on with bank reforms, gives Japan free pass
Group of Seven finance officials yesterday agreed to press on with measures to deal with failing banks and gave a green light to Japan’s efforts to galvanise its economy. British Chancellor George Osborne said the finance ministers and central...
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Migrant kills passer-by with pickaxe in Milan
An immigrant from Ghana went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan, killing a passer-by and wounding five others in an apparently random attack. Carabinieri paramilitary police in Milan said the attacker was taken into custody shortly after the...
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Rafsanjani’s last-minute entry transforms Iran race
Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani threw himself into Iran’s election race yesterday as a flurry of heavyweight candidates rushed to beat the registration deadline in the most unpredictable contest for decades. Iranian media reported that...
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White House evacuated
Reporters and photographers were evacuated from the West Wing of the White House early yesterday because of smoke from a faulty piece of equipment. US Secret Service spokesman Max Milien says that at about 7am smoke was seen coming out of a...
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Couple killed
Austrian police say a couple from Romania were killed when they were hit by two vehicles as they attempted to cross one of the country’s main roads on foot. Police in Lower Austria province said the accident happened early Friday on the A1 autobahn...
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