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Two pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft (11,000m), missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says. Air traffic tried to contact them after they overshot the point of descent into Ethiopia's Addis Abab..
The State of Qatar expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the bombing that targeted a mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, leaving deaths and injuries. In a statement on Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated the State..
The Philippines is looking to buy heavy-lift Chinook helicopters from the United States, after scrapping a deal with Russia worth 12.7 billion pesos ($227.35 million) in order to avoid sanctions, Manila's ambassador to Washington said on Monday. ..
World leaders will meet at the UN in New York later for more talks to save the world's oceans from overexploitation. The UN High Seas Treaty has been through 10 years of negotiations but has yet to be signed. If agreed, it would put 30% of the..
A US congressional delegation led by Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey has arrived in Taipei on an unannounced two-day visit, the second US congressional delegation to Taiwan this month. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew the ire of China when ..
Three people were killed and several others were injured in Austria on Saturday when a van carrying 20 people believed to be migrants overturned after evading a police check, authorities said. Police in the eastern district of Burgenland, near Vie..
Tributes are pouring in for Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, who has died at the age of 62. Jhunjhunwala, who made a fortune from the stock market, died on Sunday at a hospital in Mumbai city. The cause of death has not been officially conf..
One person died Saturday and 17 have been injured, three of them seriously, after a stage collapsed at a music festival near Valencia, Spain, according to local officials. Disaster struck at the Medusa Festival in the town of Cullera near Valencia..
Thousands of dead fish have been appearing along hundreds of kilometres of the river since late last month. It is thought that a toxic substance entered the water, although the exact chemical remains unknown despite tests. People have been told to..