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.
A fire caused by a burst gas pipe yesterday spread to several homes and sent a fireball soaring into the sky outside Malaysia’s largest city, injuring more than 100 people. The towering inferno near a gas station in Putra Heights outside Kuala Lumpur was visible for kilometers and lasted for several hours. It happened during a public holiday as Muslims, who are the majority in Malaysia, celebrate the second day of Eid al-Fitr. National oil company Petronas said the fire started at one of its gas pipelines at 8:10am and the affected pipeline was later isolated. Disaster management officials said shutting the
DITCH TACTICS: Kenyan officers were on their way to rescue Haitian police stuck in a ditch suspected to have been deliberately dug by Haitian gang members A Kenyan policeman deployed in Haiti has gone missing after violent gangs attacked a group of officers on a rescue mission, a UN-backed multinational security mission said in a statement yesterday. The Kenyan officers on Tuesday were on their way to rescue Haitian police stuck in a ditch “suspected to have been deliberately dug by gangs,” the statement said, adding that “specialized teams have been deployed” to search for the missing officer. Local media outlets in Haiti reported that the officer had been killed and videos of a lifeless man clothed in Kenyan uniform were shared on social media. Gang violence has left
US Vice President J.D. Vance on Friday accused Denmark of not having done enough to protect Greenland, when he visited the strategically placed and resource-rich Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump. Vance made his comment during a trip to the Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, a visit viewed by Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation. “Our message to Denmark is very simple: You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland,” Vance told a news conference. “You have under-invested in the people of Greenland, and you have under-invested in the security architecture of this
Japan unveiled a plan on Thursday to evacuate around 120,000 residents and tourists from its southern islets near Taiwan within six days in the event of an “emergency”. The plan was put together as “the security situation surrounding our nation grows severe” and with an “emergency” in mind, the government’s crisis management office said. Exactly what that emergency might be was left unspecified in the plan but it envisages the evacuation of around 120,000 people in five Japanese islets close to Taiwan. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has stepped up military pressure in recent years, including
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