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  • Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland

    A flight from Melbourne to Qatar was diverted to India on Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to save an Irish man on board. The man, Raymond McMorrow, 68, is believed to have had a heart attack on board Qatar Airways flight QR 031 while in transit from Melbourne to Doha, the Qatar capital. The Qatar Airways plane landed without incident at Cochin Airport, in southern India, where an ...

  • Pakistani plane forced to land near London two held

    Britain had to scramble fighter jets Friday to escort a Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) plane down to land after it was diverted from Manchester. Later, two people were arrested from aboard the aircraft on suspicion of endangering the flight. The Royal Air Force Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort the passenger plane, originally heading from Pakistan's Lahore city to Britain's ...

  • Two held over Pakistani planes mid-air alert

    Britain had to scramble fighter jets Friday for escorting a Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) plane after it was diverted from Manchester. Later, two people were arrested on suspicion of endangering the aircraft's flight. The Royal Air Force Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort the passenger plane, originally heading from Pakistan's Lahore city to Britain's Manchester city. Police ...

  • Britain sends up fighters as Pakistani plane diverted

    Britain had to scramble fighter jets Friday for escorting a Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) plane after it was diverted from Manchester. The PIA plane was diverted from Manchester to Stansted airport, reported BBC, citing a Manchester airport spokesperson Friday. The plane, flight number PK709, carrying 297 passengers, had reportedly left Lahore at 09.35 a.m. and was due in at ...

  • 1001 Chinese Tales Birth tourism reveals collective Chinese anxiety

    Does the thought of turning a 100,000-yuan ($16,280) investment into a profit of 9.8 million yuan make your heart skip a beat? If your answer is yes, then consider delivering your baby in the US.Of course this kind of "investment" has no guarantee, but the astonishingly high "rate of return" has attracted many pregnant Chinese women to take the risk.While "birth ...

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That Thing You Do!

"That Thing You Do!" is a movie that remembers with sharp clarity a time in America when cars had fins, pea green and orange were stylish colors, a mop top was the haircut to have, clock radios were the size of small TVs, sunglasses were a new innovation, and kisses still meant something. In his first stint in the director's chair, actor Tom Hanks has made a snappy little ode to a time when Americ ... ...

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    Here is this week's 'name that airport' photo. Can you guess where this was taken? Submit your guess by clicking the comment link and typing your answer there. Check back on Wednesday after noon ET to see ...

  • Free Airline Tickets Scams Rackets and Rip-offs

    Every industry falls victim to scams, rackets and rip-offs. Or plain old pipe dreams. Which reminds me of Powerball, which, isn't a rip-off since someone eventually comes up with the winning numbers but it probably won't be you or me (odds of winning: 1 in 175,223,510). You have a better chance at becoming the next American Idol (1 in 103,000) or succumbing to an attack of bees (1 in ...

  • Business New tourism Secretary outlines ministrys recovery plans

    Tourism Act of 2012 and a new national tourism strategy that will look into funding to revitalise tourism. Phyllis Kandie, Cabinet Secretary for East African Affairs, Commerce ...

  • Behind Jersey Shore’s signature banner planes

    Summer doesn't really arrive in the Jersey Shore until you see the season's staple: planes flying banners across the sky. NBC's Katy Tur goes behind the scenes to see how one company gets those banners off the ...

  • The Jersey Shore looms large in pop culture

    Entertainment has always been a part of the Shore, from the first Miss America pageant and Frank Sinatra's performances there decades ago to MTV's "Jersey Shore" and HBO's "Boardwalk Empire." TODAY takes a look back at how the Shore became a household ...

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