On Friday evening, a small air ambulance crashed into a residential and commercial area in a densely populated neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, killing everyone on board. The plane took off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, rapidly lost altitude, and crashed into buildings below. As of February 2, officials confirmed six fatalities onboard the jet and at least one on the ground, warning the death toll could rise in the coming days.
The Learjet 55, which was heading Springfield, Missouri for a brief stopover befo
On Saturday, a pair of ruby slippers worn by American actress Judy Garland while portraying Dorothy in the 1939 American musical fantasy film The Wizard of Oz were sold at Heritage Auctions in the US for US$28 million to an anonymous buyer. The Hollywood Reporter speculated that the origins and history of the shoes contributed to its high selling price.
The final selling price for the item exceeded estimations by US$25 million. With a buyer's premium appended, the buyer will actually pay a total of US$32.5 million, setting an all-time record f
Late Tuesday night, in an unannounced speech on local TV at 11 pm local time (1400 UTC), Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, declared martial law. This allowed the military to control the country. The President cited local unrest caused by "anti-state forces" as the motivation. The military law was lifted 4:30 am Wednesday (1930 UTC on December 3). Thursday morning the National Assembly filed an impeachment motion to be voted on within 72 hours.
President Yoon's speech attributed his decision to impose military law to the National Ass
On Saturday, Notre-Dame de Paris reopened in Paris, France after five years of closure following a fire in April 2019 that severely damaged the building's structure.
Approximately 50 world leaders attended the grand reopening event, which was taking place over the course of the weekend, and would emphasize the art, culture and history of the cathedral. The event was described as emblematic of French pride by French president Emmanuel Macron, who said, "This cathedral is a happy metaphor of what nation is and what the world should be. The world
On Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled to uphold a ban on the social media platform TikTok, if its China-based parent firm ByteDance refuses to sell its stake in the company.
US national security officials and policymakers have expressed suspicion towards TikTok and its association with the Chinese Communist Party, alleging that the state could potentially use the app to compromise the privacy of American users, as well as to game the app's algorithm to influence public opinion among US citizens.
China h
On Friday, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told media that authorities now believe the suspect accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is no longer in New York City, and promptly fled on a bus after the murder.
Police also said they had recovered a backpack left abandoned in Central Park that is believed to have belonged to the shooter.
The shooter's face was concealed with a mask during the attack, and is believed to have only briefly removed it during his stay in the city. Photos released by police a
On Friday, Judge Maxwell Wiley in Manhattan—a borough of New York City, New York, United States—dismissed a manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny, an ex-Marine accused of choking Jordan Neely, a homeless man, to death. The jury must now decide on a charge of criminally negligent homicide. The decision was made at the behest of the prosecution, and was the result of the jury's failure to deliver a verdict in the case.
NBC News reported that the judge told the members of the jury to go home after they notified him that they were deadlocked. J
On Monday, December 2, Israel launched its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since a ceasefire came into effect. Eleven civilians were killed in the airstrikes. The strikes were launched by Israel in response to the firing of projectiles against Israeli forces by Hezbollah. The firing was the first Hezbollah attack on Israeli forces since the ceasefire agreement. Hezbollah claimed Israel themselves had violated the ceasefire agreement, and that their attacks were a warning shot because of this. Israel claims that Hezbollah had violated
On October 30, a top Russian court fined American tech-giant Google for blocking Russian state media channels in YouTube.
The amount of the fine was two undecillion rubles - a two followed by 36 zeroes
(US$ 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) - an amount beyond the entire world's GDP, which is estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be US$110 trillion.
"Although it is a specific amount, I cannot even say this number, it is rather filled with symbolism," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to the Telegraph Ag
On October 28, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez jointly inaugurated the C-295 military aircraft facility at Vadodara in the Indian state of Gujarat.
This facility is India’s first private-sector Final Assembly Line (FAL) for manufacturing military aircraft in the country. It is jointly tied by Airbus SE and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), located on the latter's campus.
A total of 56 aircraft will be manufactured under the C-295 project, of which sixteen will be assembled in Seville, Spain and
This Wednesday hundreds of unionized workers of an Australian airline, Qantas, went on strike. The Melbourne and Brisbane airports were affected as many engineers did not work for 24 hours. The workers were campaigning for five percent yearly wages increase and a one-off, fifteen percent increase, which Qantas management called "unsustainable". According to Steve Murphy, the national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, the workers' wages have been frozen for three-and-a-half years.
In a video report by The Age, workers
The man accused of attempting to assassinate former U.S. president Donald Trump earlier this month was charged by federal authorities on Tuesday. The man, identified as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, is accused of attempting to assassinate the president on September 15 at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, where Trump had been playing golf. Routh now faces three additional charges: attempting to assassinate a presidential candidate, possessing a firearm to carry out a violent crime, and assaulting a federa
