Ali Khan A small plane has crashed into a house, killing three people on board, police said, but residents managed to flee as fire engulfed the home.
The Beechcraft BE36 aircraft crashed into the house at about 5:45 pm yesterday, said Jim Peters of the Federal Aviation Administration. It had taken off from Lancaster Airport in Pennsylvania and was headed to Norwood Memorial Airport in Massachusetts.
Actress Katie Holmes loves being surrounded by books because they make her feel “peaceful and happy”.
The 36-year-old actress, who has nine-year-old daughter Suri with ex-husband Tom Cruise, said she finds it easy to switch off from work as she keeps her personal and professional lives separate, reported Contactmusic.
“I don’t take my work home with me. We’re just playing characters so I do my work and then I go home and live my life. I love reading books, which makes me feel very peaceful and happy. A room full of books is one of the most peaceful places to be,” she said.
“Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star received handmade artwork from nieces North West and Penelope Disick on her 31st birthday.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s two-year-old spelled out Khloe’s nickname “KoKo” with glitter letters and tiny pom-poms on construction paper.
Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick’s little used crayons
to write “KoKo LoKo” and added colorful feathers, reported Us magazine.
Actress Kate and actor Oliver Hudson are considered dead by their father Bill Hudson.
The 65-year-old actor, who has three other children, has requested Kate, 36, the “Rules of Engagement” actor, 38, who he fathered with actress Goldie Hawn, stop using the surname Hudson, as he does not consider them to be his after their hurtful posts on Twitter on Father’s Day, reported Female First.
At the time, along with a picture of Bill with the two siblings as young children, Oliver posted to his sister, “Happy abandonment day…”
At least four terrorists were killed today in an encounter with the law enforcement agencies in Pakistan’s Punjab province, with the officials claiming to have averted a “major terror attack”.
Police in collaboration with the intelligence agencies launched a search operation in Rachna Town Khan Colony in Sheikhupura district in the wee hours today, some 60 kms from here, following a tip-off that some terrorists were hiding at a house, a Punjab police spokesperson said.
Officials in Chad have arrested 60 people including suspects from Cameroon, Nigeria and Mali in relation to an attack earlier this month in the capital that killed dozens of people and wounded more than 100 others.
Chad prosecutor Alghassim Khamis said yesterday that new details have been uncovered concerning the June 15 attack that saw one suicide bomber blow himself up on foot outside a police station and two others near a police academy.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced today that the country’s crisis-hit banks will be shut tomorrow and capital controls imposed to prevent withdrawals, after cash machines ran dry.
The emergency measures were agreed at a cabinet meeting after a gathering of Greece’s systemic stability council, called after Eurogroup eurozone finance ministers refused to extend its bailout beyond Tuesday, sparking default fears over an IMF loan repayment due the same day.
Italian coast guard ships and vessels from a multi-nation naval mission and humanitarian organizations rescued at least 2,900 migrants today from 21 boats launched by smugglers from Libyan shores, authorities said.
The coast guard said the rescues were carried out by military vessels from Italy, Spain, Ireland, Britain as well as a boat run by humanitarian personnel.
A bus carrying British school children went off a highway and overturned near the Belgian coast on today morning, killing one driver and injuring another as well as some of the children, officials said.
The vehicle apparently went out of control, struck a bridge pillar on the E40 highway, then shot off the road, Belgian highway authorities said. The bus was carrying around 40 passengers, including 34 British children from 11 to 13 years old, authorities said.
Vice President Joe Biden worshipped and spoke at the today service of the historic African-American church where nine people were gunned down during Bible study earlier this month.
The vice president’s surprise appearance came on the second Sunday the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church held regular services following the June 17 shooting. Police contend the attack was racially motived and have charged a 21-year-old white man with the killings.
Biden said he’d visited Emanuel before and knew the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of the church who was among those killed.
The world’s Jewish population has grown to be nearly as large as it was before the Holocaust, an Israeli think tank said in its annual report today.
The Jewish People Policy Institute said there are currently 14.2 million Jews in the world. When factoring in individuals with one Jewish parent and others who identify as partially Jewish, the figure approaches 16.5 million the Jewish population on the eve of World War II. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered about 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
The army of officers searching for a surviving escaped killer continued their work under steady rainfall today, keeping their focus on the dense and boggy woods of upstate New York where his fellow fugitive was fatally shot two days earlier.
The US military has repatriated two Tunisian men who were brutally interrogated in a secret CIA prison and held in Afghanistan for more than a decade, the Pentagon said today.
Ridha Ahmad al-Najjar and Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi were flown home on June 15, officials said.
Both men had been incarcerated by the Afghan regime since December, when the United States handed over control of prison operations in Afghanistan under a bilateral security treaty.
The FTII authorities here have received a communication from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, giving an appointment this week to the striking students to discuss their demand for removal of TV actor Gajendra Chauhan from the post of chairman.
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Director D J Narain told PTI today that the tentative date suggested for a dialogue with the agitating students is July 3, which has been conveyed to the the FTII Students’ Association, spearheading the strike, which has entered the 17th day.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today announced to give away 20,000 e-rickshaws in the state.
Announcing the state government’s decision to give e-rickshaws to rickshaw pullers in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Das said the state was on the path of progress and Jharkhand would be a prosperous state in the next five years.
A mild tremor shook Nepal today in continuing aftershocks following the devastating earthquake two months ago.
The 4.3 magnitude tremor was recorded at Sindhupalchok district, 50 kms east of Kathmandu, according to the National Seismological Centre.
With this, a total of 333 aftershocks of 4 or above magnitude were recorded after the earthquake of April 25 that ravaged the country killing nearly 9,000 people.
Earlier in the morning, a tremor was also felt in eastern Nepal at about 7 AM local time.
Police today busted a prostitution racket and arrested seven persons on the charge of running brothels in different parts of the city.
According to police, M Veerababu and R Ramesh are allegedly organisers of brothel houses which they have been running in different areas of Hyderabad and Secunderabad since the last eight years.
They were also involved in similar cases and wanted in four cases, a release from City Police stated.
Two more accused in the high-profile Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam died in the past 24 hours at Gwalior and Indore, adding another murky dimension to the massive scandal in which several politicians and bureaucrats are allegedly involved.
While the death of 40-year-old Dr Rajendra Arya at Birla Hospital in Gwalior this morning was reported to be due to some disease, that of Narendra Singh Tomar (29) in Indore jail was under mysterious circumstances.
India hockey coach Paul van Ass said inability to handle fast-paced attack resulted in his side’s capitulation against World champions Australia in the FIH World League Semifinals, here today.
“Frayed nerves and inability to cope with the high rhythm set by the Australians hurt us very badly at the start of the match,” said van Ass after India were hammered 6-2 by Australia in the last preliminary match.
The gruesome “selfie” taken by the man suspected of beheading his boss during an attack on a gas factory in France was sent to Syria, sources close to the investigation said today.
The macabre picture of Yassin Salhi and the severed head was sent via the WhatsApp messaging service to a number in Canada but authorities had said yesterday that the number could be a relay for a recipient elsewhere.
Authorities were convinced that the final recipient would be in Iraq or Syria, where hundreds of people from France have gone to wage jihad.
Police personnel in presence of district officials have removed a religious idol which was installed on a plot here which had led to tension between two communities, police said today.
The idol was removed late last night by police personnel in presence of district officials, police said.
Most of the people who were sitting there had already left for their homes before the idol was removed and rest were peacefully sent too, they said.
Police force is still deployed at the spot to prevent any untoward situation, they said.
Accusing Governor E S L Narasimhan of favouring Telangana, a lawyers’ body from Andhra Pradesh today demanded his resignation.
Andhra Pradesh Lawyers Joint Action Committee (JAC), which held a meeting here today, said Narasimhan, who is the common Governor of both the states, was giving more importance to Telangana and not following Section 8 of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.
The section deals with responsibility of Governor to protect the residents of the common capital of Hyderabad.
A 24-year-old youth drowned in a quarry filled with rain water in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park here today, police said.
The mishap occurred soon after Anil Singh ventured into the pit near the Tiku Ji Ni Wadi, along with his friends, said Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) official Santosh Kadam.
He said Singh was working in Merchant Navy and was on a two-month vacation.
Kadam said Singh went deep into water whereas his friends, Yogesh Singh and Jagdish Das were swimming in shallow water.
His body is yet to be fished out of water.
A 28-year-old businessman was found murdered in Ranhola area of West Delhi this morning.
According to police, the businessman was identified as Shameen Kaifi, a resident of Ranhola area. He was involved in timer trade.
Police said that a call to the police control room was made by a passerby around 6 AM, informing that a man was lying unconscious under a roadside tree. Police rushed to the spot and found strangulation marks on his throat.
He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.
Six people remained in “serious condition” in hospital today two days after a mass shooting at a beachside hotel in Tunisia that left 38 people dead, the hotel’s Spanish management said.
“The hotel management is in permanent contact with local hospitals checking on the condition of the wounded who are still hospitalised,” the RIU group, which runs the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel, said in a statement.
“On a positive note, the number of hospitalised has been decreasing but our thoughts are with the six injured who are still in a serious condition,” it added.