A helicopter sporting Statoil people from an offshore rig inside the North Sea crashed Friday on an island off western Norway, killing all 13 humans on board, rescuers stated. The Airbus EC-225 helicopter shattered into pieces because it slammed just after noon into the rockyshoreline of Turoey, a tiny island ... Read More »
North Korea on Friday sentenced a U.S. citizen of Korean historical past to ten years in prison with hardlabor after convicting him of espionage and subversion, the second one American it has positioned behindbars this yr. Kim Dong Chul was sentenced after a quick trial in Pyongyang by North Korea’s ... Read More »
A helicopter has crashed close to the Norwegian city of Bergen with at the least 14 humans on board, and there are reviews of human beings inside the sea. Rescue officers instructed nearby media that the helicopter have been “absolutely destroyed”. photographs from the scene confirmed thick smoke coming from ... Read More »
South Africa’s excessive court has ruled that a decision to drop 783 corruption expenses againstPresident Jacob Zuma must be reviewed. The prices had been dropped simply weeks earlier than the 2009 election which caused Mr Zuma turning into president. choose Aubrey Ledwaba said the selection by way of the chief ... Read More »
Apple stated a thirteen% drop in its second region sales on Tuesday as sales of iPhones slipped. The generation massive suggested quarterly income of $50.56bn (£34.39bn) down from $58bn remainingyear – the primary fall in sales for the employer due to the fact 2003. Apple offered fifty one.2 million iPhones ... Read More »
Ukraine and Russia have reached a deal to free a jailed Ukrainian pilot, President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday, suggesting that she will be swapped for two Russian servicemen jailed in Ukraine this week. Nadezhda Savchenko, who was captured by Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine in 2014, was sentenced to 22 ... Read More »
– Uber is ending the instant food delivery service portion of UberEats in New York City just a month after it began. In an email, UberEats told users in New York on Monday it will continue with its standard service, however, its instant option — pre-fixed items like sandwiches or ... Read More »
The 14-year-old boy in the black school jacket stared at his sneakers, his heart pounding, as the policeman accused him of stealing a piece of bread. Even now, more than 30 years later, Choi Seung-woo weeps when he describes all that happened next. The policeman yanked down the boy’s pants ... Read More »
The Latest on the militant assault on an Afghan government security compound in Kabul (all times local): 5:45 p.m. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent his condolences to the victims and their families following the Taliban attack on a government security agency in Kabul that killed at least 28 people ... Read More »
Taliban attackers in Afghanistan staged an assault on a government security agency in the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday morning, killing at least 28 people and wounding more than 320. The assault, which include at least two attackers and a car rigged with explosives, came a week after the Taliban announced ... Read More »
When President Barack Obama arrives in the Saudi capital on Wednesday, he’ll face an increasingly assertive leadership still heavily dependent on U.S. weapons and military might that nonetheless has little trust in him and essentially believes it’s been thrown a curveball. The president is expected to push Saudi Arabia, the ... Read More »
The Syrian opposition coalition negotiating in Geneva said Tuesday there can be no solution in Syria with President Bashar Assad in power, and called for international monitors to observe a cessation of hostilities agreement that has all but collapsed. The head of the U.S. and Saudi-backed coalition, Riad Hijab, also ... Read More »
