UNITED STATES
US Airways flies last flight
The final US Airways flight on Friday departed from San Francisco bound for Philadelphia, making the last leg of its round-trip journey. Flight 1939 was named after the airline’s founding year. The flight departed from Philadelphia International Airport at 10:36am, with the Airbus A321 making scheduled stops in Charlotte, North Carolina; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Francisco. All future flights are to fly under the American Airlines banner, following the completion of a merger announced in 2013. US Airways was formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as All American Aviation. It later operated as Allegheny Airlines before becoming US Airways.
UNITED STATES
Mom throws baby to death
A 27-year-old woman on Thursday allegedly threw her baby daughter to her death from the window of their sixth-floor apartment, the third such tragedy in as many months in New York City. Tenisha Fearon — who ignored the pleas of her horrified neighbors — has been charged with murder after the death of the six-month old in the Bronx. Her three other young children, aged four, eight and 10, who were present at the time, have been placed in care. A source told the local NY1 News that Fearon was suffering postpartum depression and NBC said the family was about to be evicted from their apartment. Last month, another woman, aged 33, threw her baby daughter to her death from a seventh-floor window soon after giving birth, also in the Bronx. She had reportedly hidden her pregnancy.
RUSSIA
Driver throws man in river
Prosecutors on Friday opened an attempted murder probe after a businessman threw a pedestrian who touched his car into a canal in Saint Petersburg. The pedestrian, who is reportedly handicapped, “accidentally touched the Audi of the 30-year-old businessman with his foot,” prosecutors said in a statement. The furious driver “got out of his car and punched him in the face before throwing him over the railings into the canal,” the statement said. The victim, 44, managed to clamber out of the water and was hospitalized. The driver was later detained and faces 11 years in jail. Video footage of the incident, recorded by a dashboard camera in a passing vehicle, sparked a frenzy of criticism and was broadcast on local television. Other recent eye-catching road rage incidents captured on ubiquitous dashboard cameras have included an angry priest chasing a man in a provincial city after he blocked in his expensive sedan car.
UNITED STATES
Amorous couple delay arrest
Florida police serving an arrest warrant on a burglary suspect on Wednesday ended up in a long standoff because the man’s girlfriend wanted to have sexual intercourse with him one last time, authorities said. Police finally did arrest Ryan Patrick Bautista, 34, and his girlfriend, Leanne Hunn, 30, after the six-hour drama at their mobile home in Jacksonville the sheriff’s office told the television station WTLV. Police showed up at the home to arrest Bautista on a warrant charging him with armed burglary. Inside the mobile home, he and Hunn were not armed. They just refused to come out. During negotiations with the police, Hunn told officers she would come out, “but she wanted to have sex for one last time,” the television station reported.
POLITICAL PRISONERS VS DEPORTEES: Venezuela’s prosecutor’s office slammed the call by El Salvador’s leader, accusing him of crimes against humanity Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Sunday proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the US his government has kept imprisoned for what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela. In a post on X, directed at Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Bukele listed off a number of family members of high-level opposition figures in Venezuela, journalists and activists detained during the South American government’s electoral crackdown last year. “The only reason they are imprisoned is for having opposed you and your electoral fraud,” he wrote to Maduro. “However, I want to propose a humanitarian agreement that
ECONOMIC WORRIES: The ruling PAP faces voters amid concerns that the city-state faces the possibility of a recession and job losses amid Washington’s tariffs Singapore yesterday finalized contestants for its general election on Saturday next week, with the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) fielding 32 new candidates in the biggest refresh of the party that has ruled the city-state since independence in 1965. The move follows a pledge by Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (黃循財), who took office last year and assumed the PAP leadership, to “bring in new blood, new ideas and new energy” to steer the country of 6 million people. His latest shake-up beats that of predecessors Lee Hsien Loong (李顯龍) and Goh Chok Tong (吳作棟), who replaced 24 and 11 politicians respectively
Young women standing idly around a park in Tokyo’s west suggest that a giant statue of Godzilla is not the only attraction for a record number of foreign tourists. Their faces lit by the cold glow of their phones, the women lining Okubo Park are evidence that sex tourism has developed as a dark flipside to the bustling Kabukicho nightlife district. Increasing numbers of foreign men are flocking to the area after seeing videos on social media. One of the women said that the area near Kabukicho, where Godzilla rumbles and belches smoke atop a cinema, has become a “real
‘WATER WARFARE’: A Pakistani official called India’s suspension of a 65-year-old treaty on the sharing of waters from the Indus River ‘a cowardly, illegal move’ Pakistan yesterday canceled visas for Indian nationals, closed its airspace for all Indian-owned or operated airlines, and suspended all trade with India, including to and from any third country. The retaliatory measures follow India’s decision to suspend visas for Pakistani nationals in the aftermath of a deadly attack by shooters in Kashmir that killed 26 people, mostly tourists. The rare attack on civilians shocked and outraged India and prompted calls for action against their country’s archenemy, Pakistan. New Delhi did not publicly produce evidence connecting the attack to its neighbor, but said it had “cross-border” links to Pakistan. Pakistan denied any connection to
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