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.
CONDITIONS: The Russian president said a deal that was scuppered by ‘elites’ in the US and Europe should be revived, as Ukraine was generally satisfied with it Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said that he was ready for talks with Ukraine, after having previously rebuffed the idea of negotiations while Kyiv’s offensive into the Kursk region was ongoing. Ukraine last month launched a cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, sending thousands of troops across the border and seizing several villages. Putin said shortly after there could be no talk of negotiations. Speaking at a question and answer session at Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Putin said that Russia was ready for talks, but on the basis of an aborted deal between Moscow’s and Kyiv’s negotiators reached in Istanbul, Turkey,
In months, Lo Yuet-ping would bid farewell to a centuries-old village he has called home in Hong Kong for more than seven decades. The Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon is filled with small houses built from metal sheets and stones, as well as old granite buildings, contrasting sharply with the high-rise structures that dominate much of the Asian financial hub. Lo, 72, has spent his entire life here and is among an estimated 860 households required to move under a government redevelopment plan. He said he would miss the rich history, unique culture and warm interpersonal kindness that defined life in
AERIAL INCURSIONS: The incidents are a reminder that Russia’s aggressive actions go beyond Ukraine’s borders, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha said Two NATO members on Sunday said that Russian drones violated their airspace, as one reportedly flew into Romania during nighttime attacks on neighboring Ukraine, while another crashed in eastern Latvia the previous day. A drone entered Romanian territory early on Sunday as Moscow struck “civilian targets and port infrastructure” across the Danube in Ukraine, the Romanian Ministry of National Defense said. It added that Bucharest had deployed F-16 warplanes to monitor its airspace and issued text alerts to residents of two eastern regions. It also said investigations were underway of a potential “impact zone” in an uninhabited area along the Romanian-Ukrainian border. There
A French woman whose husband has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her while she was drugged on Thursday told his trial that police had saved her life by uncovering the crimes. “The police saved my life by investigating Mister Pelicot’s computer,” Gisele Pelicot told the court in the southern city of Avignon, referring to her husband — one of 51 of her alleged abusers on trial — by only his surname. Speaking for the first time since the extraordinary trial began on Monday, Gisele Pelicot, now 71, revealed her emotion in almost 90 minutes of testimony, recounting her mysterious
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