A Singapore Airlines plane caught fire on Monday while making an emergency landing at Changi Airport after turning back from a flight to Milan following an engine oil warning message, the carrier said. No one was injured aboard the Boeing 777-300ER, but one passenger described those moments as a “so-close to death” experience. In a statement, SIA said Flight SQ368 […]
» Read moreAt least 30 people were killed and 21 others injured when a tourist bus burst into flames after crashing into the side of a road in central China on Sunday. The accident happened in Hunan province when the bus carrying 56 people crashed into the guardrails on a highway. The ensuing oil leak may have caused the fire, the county […]
» Read morePrime Minister David Cameron announced on Friday he will resign after Britons voted to leave the European Union despite his campaign to keep it in the bloc. Mr. Cameron promised to try to “steady the ship” over the next months and did not give a precise timetable for his departure but said a new leader should be installed by early […]
» Read moreSoftBank Group said on Wednesday that Ken Miyauchi, head of the group’s Japanese telecommunications operations, would become president and chief operating officer to replace Nikesh Arora. Mr. Arora, the former Google executive handpicked by the SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son as his successor, has abruptly quit as president after it became clear that Mr. Son wanted to remain at the helm […]
» Read moreOne of the best known qawwali singers Amjad Sabri was shot dead by unknown assailants in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Wednesday, the country’s media reported. According to the reports, Sabri, 45, was travelling in a car with an associate in a car when unknown gunmen on motorbikes opened fire at his vehicle in the city’s Liaquatabad area. […]
» Read moreA 19-year-old British man has been charged with the offence of trying to grab a police officer’s gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas in an apparent bid to kill the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. According to a complaint filed in the federal court in Nevada, Michael Sandford tried to disarm the officer at Saturday’s rally at the […]
» Read more