Flights canceled, residents stock up as Typhoon Melor heads toward Northern Marianas, GuamOctober 2nd, 2009 Northern Marianas, Guam brace for Typhoon MelorSAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — Residents of the Northern Mariana Islands and neighboring Guam braced themselves Saturday as Typhoon Melor churned across the Western Pacific. In the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the islands of Saipan, Tinian and Agrihan were under a typhoon warning.
BA Mumbai-London flight makes emergency landingOctober 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - A British Airways Mumbai-London flight with 207 passengers on board made an emergency landing here early Thursday following a fire warning in the cockpit, an official said. The captain of the BA-138 flight, which took off from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at 3 a.m., heard a fire alarm in the cockpit about 30 minutes after take-off.
George Bush considered Obama unfit for white house, mocked Palin and ClintonSeptember 16th, 2009 LONDON - George W. Bush's former speechwriter Matt Latimer has revealed that the ex-US President considered Barack Obama unfit for the White House and dismissed Sarah Palin as a nonentity.
Indian Australian woman killed her husband by setting his genitals on fireAugust 28th, 2009 ADELAIDE - A jealous Indian Australian wife has been charged with killing her husband by setting his penis on fire. She is expected to answer her murder charge in October.
Plane takes itself for a ride in AustraliaAugust 4th, 2009 SYDNEY - An Australian pilot who forgot to put chocks under the wheels of his aircraft when he cranked its propeller saw it take off without him. The embarrassing, and expensive, accident took place Tuesday in the Outback opal mining town of Coober Pedy.
Magnitude-5.1 quake shakes off waters of Guam; no damages or injuries reportedAugust 3rd, 2009 Magnitude-5.1 quake shakes off waters of GuamHAGATNA, Guam — A moderate earthquake has struck in waters off the island of Guam, but there are no reports of any damage or injury. The U.S. Geological Survey says in a preliminary report that the magnitude-5.1 quake struck at 11:47 a.m.
Arnie's plane makes emergency landingJune 20th, 2009 LONDON - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plane had to make an emergency landing after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit. The jet carrying the Hollywood hardman was forced to make an emergency landing 10 minutes after taking off from Santa Monica Airport, west of Los Angeles.
Jetstar plane makes emergency landing in Guam after fire breaks out in cockpit; no injuriesJune 11th, 2009 Jetstar plane makes emergency landing in GuamSYDNEY — An Airbus 330 carrying 203 people made an emergency landing in Guam on Thursday after an electrical problem sparked a small fire in the cockpit, airline officials said. It's the same type of plane that crashed last week in the Atlantic.
US plane with bathroom fire lands safely after being diverted to Canadian airportJune 10th, 2009 US plane with bathroom fire diverts to HalifaxWASHINGTON — An American Airlines Boeing 767-300 en route from New York City to Europe was diverted Tuesday to a Canadian airport after a fire was reported in a bathroom. Officials for the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration said Flight 64 landed safely at 7:15 p.m.
Australian state hit by wildfire tragedy boosts firefighting budgetMay 3rd, 2009 Australian state hikes firefighting fundsMELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian state that suffered deadly wildfires earlier this year hopes to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy with record spending on fire trucks and communications equipment, a newspaper reported Sunday. A firefighting budget of 204 million Australian dollars ($149 million) is expected to be part of the Victoria state budget announced Tuesday, the state's Herald Sun newspaper reported in an exclusive story.
Australian Navy nabs boats with 54 suspected asylum-seekersMarch 16th, 2009 SYDNEY - The Australian Navy intercepted a boat suspected of carrying 54 asylum-seekers off the coast of the Northern Territory, officials said Sunday. The passengers and crew were taken to the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Pacific Ocean.
Australian stocks hit five-year lowMarch 3rd, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian stocks followed Wall Street down in early trading Tuesday, giving up 1.9 percent to levels not seen since 2003. At the opening bell the ASX 200 lost a whopping 2.5 percent before bargain-hunters came in to help stocks claw back ground.
Australian soldiers kill Afghan children in Taliban clashFebruary 12th, 2009 SYDNEY - Five Afghan children were killed when Australian soldiers shot back after coming under fire from Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) said Friday. 'Current reporting indicates...
Australian firefighter's anguish at leaving town to its fateFebruary 10th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian firefighter John Munday told of his heartache at saving the lives of his crew but leaving others to their deaths in fire-ravaged Marysville. 'We had people banging on the sides of our tanker begging us to go back to houses where they knew people were trapped,' Munday told The Australian newspaper Wednesday.
Australian soldier gets Victoria CrossJanuary 15th, 2009 SYDNEY - An Australian soldier who braved enemy machine-gun fire to save an Afghan interpreter shot in a Taliban ambush has become the first Australian in 40 years to win the Victoria Cross award. Mark Donaldson, a commando in the Special Air Services, ran 80 metres under enemy fire to grab the interpreter and carry him to safety during a clash in Uruzgan province in Afghanistan in September last year.
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