Global News
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Microsoft co-founder helps search for lost plane
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s mega-yacht — and perhaps even the billionaire himself — are part of a flotilla scouring the Pacific for an American pilot and two Palau police officers whose plane disappeared over the weekend.
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Tornadoes ravage Texas
Tornadoes raked the Dallas area on Tuesday, crumbling a wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and spiraling big-rig trailers into the air like footballs. More than a dozen injuries were reported.
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US offers reward for capture of terrorist group’s founder
The US has offered a $10 million bounty for the founder of the Pakistani militant group blamed for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, in which 166 people were killed.
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Rule relaxed over deadly delicacies in Japan
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government in Japan has caused outrage among specialist chefs by relaxing the laws pertaining to serving poisonous blowfish.
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Flying car takes off in the United States
Flying cars aren’t just science fiction anymore. Terrafugia Inc says its prototype flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the vehicle within the next year.
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Truck driver survives 60m fall
Police say a Lithuanian truck driver suffered broken bones but survived after his vehicle tumbled 60 metres (200 feet) down a snow-covered cliff in central Norway, bringing a tow truck with it.
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Argentinians burn flags and effigy in Falklands protest
Argentina’s president said Monday that she’s asked the International Red Cross to persuade Britain to let its DNA experts identify unknown soldiers buried in the Falkland Islands.
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Gunman opens fire at California university
A 43-year-old former student of a small Christian university in California opened fire at the school Monday, killing at least seven people and setting off an intense, chaotic manhunt that ended with his capture at a nearby shopping center, authorities said.
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Bin Laden’s wives jailed in Pakistan
A Pakistani court has sentenced the late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s three widows and two daughters to 45 days in jail for illegally staying in the country, their lawyers said yesterday.
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Women are labouring for longer
Many tasks can be tackled more quickly now than 50 years ago, but giving birth naturally takes longer, according to a study.
