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New York, Apr 11: In a shocking incident, the United Airlines staff ill-treated a passenger on a plane the airline had overbooked. As per the videos posted online by other passengers, a man was seen screaming as officers yanked him from his seat on United Flight 3411 before it departed from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday. The man, who appeared to be of

Apr 10: A baby was born on board of a Turkish flight at 42,000 ft. The cabin crew assisted in the birth of a baby girl when a woman went into delivery at 12,800 metres in the air. According to BBC, the passengers on the flight are also reported to have assisted in the birth, that happened just after the flight took off from Conakry, Guinea's capital to Istanbul via Ouagadougou. The baby girl was

Cairo, Apr 9: At least 36 people were killed and over 140 others injured today in twin blasts targeting Coptic churches packed with worshippers who had gathered for Palm Sunday mass in Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria. The first blast took place in the Coptic church of Mar Girgis, also known as St George, in the Nile delta city of Tanta, about 120 kilometres from Cairo, killing 25 people

Washington, Apr 9: The US Navy has said it had sent a carrier-led strike group to the Korean peninsula in a show of force against North Korea's "reckless" nuclear weapons programme. The move will raise tensions in the region and comes hard on the heels of a US missile strike on Syria that was widely interpreted as putting Pyongyang on warning over its refusal to abandon its nuclear ambitions

Stockholm, Apr 8: Sweden early today arrested a man for a "terrorist crime" hours after a beer truck ploughed into a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, killing four and injuring 15. The man was arrested "on suspicion of a terrorist crime through murder," Karin Rosander, a communications director at the Swedish Prosecution Authority said. Police said earlier on Friday after

Washington, Apr 8: When President Donald Trump began receiving his intelligence briefings in January, his team made a request: The president, they said, was a visual and auditory learner. Would the briefers please cut down on the number of words in the daily briefing book and instead use more graphics and pictures? Similarly, after Trump entered office, his staff took President Barack Obama's

Stockholm, Apr 8: A truck ploughed into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four people and wounding 15 in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack. Police said they had arrested one person in a northern Stockholm suburb after earlier circulating a picture of a man wearing a grey hoodie in connection with

Washington/Palm beach, Apr 7: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airfield from which a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched, declaring he acted in America's "vital national security interest" against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Sharply escalating the US military role in Syria, two US warships fired dozens of cruise missiles from the

Washington, Apr 7: The U.S. military launched approximately 50 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield late on Thursday, in the first direct American assault on the government of President Bashar Assad since that country's civil war began six years ago. The operation, which the Trump administration authorized in retaliation for a chemical attack killing scores of civilians this week

Kuala Lumpur, Apr 6: A Malaysian MP said girls as young as nine were “physically and spiritually” ready for marriage, as the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian country passed a law on sexual offenses against children without criminalizing child marriage. Shabudin Yahaya, a member of the Barisan Nasional coalition, made the comments in response to a proposal by an opposition member of Parliament to