Tag: news
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The pilot is dead: Crew, passengers fly airliner across US, land safely in New York
Pilot İlçehin Pehlivan, 59, lost consciousness at some point after Flight TK204 took off from Seattle Tuesday night, Turkish Airlines spokesperson Yahya Üstün said in a statement. Crew members decided to make an emergency landing and worked to revive the pilot, Üstün said, but he died before the plane landed. Data from the tracking site…
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Japanese man freed after sixty years on death row, wins wrongful conviction case
Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court on Thursday makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japanese criminal justice. The case could rekindle a debate around abolishing the death penalty in Japan. The court’s presiding judge, Koshi Kunii, said the court acknowledged a multiple fabrications…
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The morning after: Brisbane CBD still under pall after massive factory blaze
Emergency crews were called to a burning property on Hubert Street in Woolloongabba about 4.30pm on Wednesday. Surrounding roads including Gibbon, Stanley, Raid and Hawthorne streets were closed with police making an emergency declaration. A man was taken by ambulance to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital suffering from life-threatening airway burns. The fire was…
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Driver whose car killed five people in beer garden crash ‘loooked wasted’
William Swale, 66, faced the first day of a committal hearing in Ballarat on Monday over the November 2023 crash that killed two children and three adults in Victoria’s Daylesford. He allegedly mounted the kerb in his SUV and hit several people seated on the front lawn of the Royal Daylesford Hotel. Pratibha Sharma, 44,…
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Beyond comprehension: Queensland motorcycle cop killed while on fund-raising ride
NSW Police were called to a crash near Glen Innes, four hours southwest of Byron Bay, on Wednesday afternoon. Senior Sergeant Brendan Wiblen, 58, had been attempting to overtake another motorbike rider, when he lost control and crashed down an embankment, police said. He died at the scene. The serving Queensland officer was participating in…
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Tales of terror: Bus crash survivors recall fateful night that changed dozens of lives
Brett Button, 59, is awaiting sentence for dangerous driving after racing into a highway on-ramp and tipping a bus filled with wedding guests, killing 10 people and injuring 25 others. He has been forced to listen first-hand to those irrevocably changed by his actions in June 2023, after his request to listen to the three-day…
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Man sought over coffee attack on baby has fled Australia
Baby Luka had his third round of surgery last week after he suffered burns to much of his body when a man poured a flask of coffee over the nine-month-old who was picnicking with his family at Hanlon Park in Stones Corner on August 27. Luka suffered significant burns to his face, arms and legs.…
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Flop gun: US Navy ship’s captain pictured firing rifle with scope on backwards
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John McCain, was removed on Friday. The navy said Yaste was relieved of duty “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer” that is currently deployed in the Gulf of Oman. In April, a photo…
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Brisbane man faces 130 ‘upskirt’ charges for using walking stick camera to spy on women
Jeffrey Norman Young, 56, has been charged with 110 offences after a string of alleged incidents between November 2023 and January 2024. Young is accused of filming a 12-year-old girl on a Mount Ommaney shopping centre escalator in Brisbane’s south about 11.30am in January using a small camera attached to the end of the walking…
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Divers resume search for bodies of six lost at sea in sinking of superyacht
The resting place of their sailboat is 50 metres underwater off Porticello – a depth that required special precautions that complicated the work: recovery crews said they were working in 12-minute shifts, a measure that slowed down their efforts to reach the cramped inside of the wreck. The Bayesian, a 56-metre UK-flagged yacht, was moored…