Plane passengers were terrified when they looked out the windows to see their plane catching on fire during take-off. The American Airlines flight, scheduled to fly to Texas on Thursday (April 20), had to return to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport terminal at North Carolina after the incident. Frankie Leggington, who was on the flight, said she heard an explosion not long […]

UK weather: Met Office forecasts colder conditions Britons in southern England and Wales have been warned to expect “hail and localised flash-flooding” from thunderstorms hitting the UK on Monday. The first blast of wet weather will arrive in the west of the British Isles, as an area of “showery rain” falls over Wales, the Midlands, south west England and over […]

Is that a Hissan? Motorist stunned as SNAKE slithers out onto the dashboard of car he is delivering to new owner The man noticed the snake while delivering the vehicle from a car dealership  A motorist got the shock of his life after spotting a 5ft snake hanging from the dashboard of a car he was dropping off for a […]

Holidaymaker hoping for a ‘relatively cheap’ break is hit with £2,000 fine after driving his motorhome through London’s low emission zone to a campsite within the M25 over Easter weekend Geoffrey Eaton, 53, from Colchester, said it has ruined his family’s holiday plans  Read more: Woman ‘unfairly’ fined after briefly stopping in disabled parking spot A self-employed architect was hit with […]

A 66-year-old Summit County man faces a vehicular homicide charge after backing over his wife as she was walking behind the car in their driveway. The preliminary investigation found that Bradley Wilson was under the influence of alcohol or prescription medication, according to Summit County Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons. Wilson was taken into custody without incident and booked at the Summit […]

As the devastating conflict in Sudan continues, dozens gathered at the Colorado State Capitol Friday after a Denver man was killed in the country. Members for the Sudanese community came together to remember Abubaker Abumasha, who is described by family as a hard working father and husband. He went back to Sudan to celebrate Eid with his wife and two […]

Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Which came first, the tweets or the bank run? A new paper finds evidence that tweets — particularly from those in the startup community— exacerbated the run on Silicon Valley Bank last month. Why it matters: Social media-fueled bank runs — SVB's collapse was the first — are a new risk to the financial system, and regulators don't […]

By LAÍS MARTINS and COLLIN BINKLEY (SAO PAULO) About two weeks after a man killed four children in a Brazilian daycare center, authorities already have rounded up some 300 adults and minors nationwide accused of spreading hate speech or stoking school violence. Little has been revealed about the unprecedented crackdown, which risks judicial overreach, but it underlines the determination of […]

By STEFANIE DAZIO and LARRY FENN (Associated Press) LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop roughly once a week so far this year. The carnage has taken 88 lives in 17 mass killings over 111 days. Each time, the killers wielded firearms. Only 2009 was […]