Four Dead In Kenyan Safari Plane Crash
Four people have died after a tourist plane with 14 people on board crashed in Kenya’s Maasai Mara park. Police say two pilots and two German tourists were killed when the Mombasa Air Safari flight went down in Ngrende. The Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority had previously reported three people dead. But Narok district police chief [...]
Sarah Burke, 29, died in January after a training accident in Utah. Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke never did reach the Olympics. But her efforts to get her event into the games before dying in a training accident this year have helped her achieve a high honor from her country’s Olympic committee. Burke will be [...]
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Seven UN peacekeepers from Niger have been killed in an ambush in southwestern Ivory Coast, the UN has said. The attack took place near the border with Liberia, UN officials say. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said he was “saddened and outraged” by the deaths. UN peacekeepers were deployed to Ivory Coast in 2004 to help [...]
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Fans lined the streets of Thame as the cortege passed through the town The funeral of Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has been held in his home town in Oxfordshire. Hundreds of fans lined the streets of Thame earlier as a lone bagpiper led a procession through the town. Gibb’s body was carried in [...]
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(CNN) — Abu Yahya al-Libi, the No. 2 man in al Qaeda and a longtime public face of the terror network, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, a U.S. official said Tuesday. His death marks one of the most significant blows to al Qaeda since the U.S. military killed Osama bin [...]
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Officials in Nigeria say they have found no survivors after a passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed into a residential area of the capital Lagos. The local Dana airlines flight was carrying at least 153 people when it plunged into the ground in Nigeria’s largest city. Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has declared three [...]
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Not less than 10 people have died after an Allied Air cargo plane skidded off the runway at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra Saturday evening and ran into a 207 Benz bus on a nearby road and shredded it and its passengers into pieces. The plane crashed through metal railings and a concrete wall [...]
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