London’s Gatwick Airport was briefly closed Friday after a jet made an emergency landing, officials said.
Plane in emergency landing at London’s Gatwick
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U.S. mining firm staff attacked in Indonesia
Two people were reported killed Wednesday after a convoy of buses carrying employees of a U.S. mining company came under fire in the Indonesian province of Papua
U.S. airline irks India by frisking ex-president
Indian authorities Tuesday filed a police complaint against Continental Airlines for frisking a former president of the country as he was to travel to New York in April. Civil aviation officials in New Delhi accused Continental of gross violation of Indian security rules that prohibit pre-embarkation body checks on certain dignitaries like a former president. The police complaint followed a probe that had established that APJ Abdul Kalam was subject to frisking before he boarded a flight from New Delhi to New York on April 21, the Indian civil aviation ministry said in a statement.
Bomb kills at least 7 in southern Afghanistan
At least seven people were killed Friday in a roadside bombing in a southern Afghan border town, Afghan officials said.
Fugitive U.S. white supremacist captured in Israel
A fugitive American white supremacist was arrested Monday in Israel, ending an international manhunt that began in 2007, Israeli and U.S. officials said. Micky Louis Mayon, one of the 100 most wanted people in the United States, was taken into custody in southern Tel Aviv after Israel received information from Interpol indicating he was there.
7 die in India as bus plunges into flooded canal
A bus carrying about 40 passengers sank in an overflowing canal in eastern India, killing seven of them, officials said Tuesday. Among the dead were a 7-year-old girl and her mother, said Paresh Chandra Nayak, the district magistrate of Nayagarh, in Orissa state. The bus driver ignored warnings from his passengers about flooding in the canal ahead and kept driving Monday night, Nayak told CNN
One Indiana prison escapee caught; two still at large
One of three inmates who escaped from an Indiana maximum-security prison was captured Monday about eight miles away in southwestern Michigan, officials said.
2 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
A Taliban assault on a military base in eastern Afghanistan left two U.S. soldiers dead and four wounded on Saturday, officials said.
6 die in London high-rise fire
Six people were killed, including three children, when a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in south London on Friday afternoon, officials said. The fire started on the fourth floor at 4:30 p.m. then rapidly spread to the 11th floor, eventually engulfing 12 floors and gutting apartments along the way, fire officials said.
Pakistan: Suspected U.S. drone attack kills 15
A suspected U.S. drone attack killed at least 15 people in northwest Pakistan Friday morning, Pakistani officials said