BANGKOK — The swift and safe evacuation of a Japan Airlines jet that caught fire after hitting a Coast Guard aircraft while it was landing Tuesday at Tokyo’s Haneda airport reflects a dogged dedication to safety and training by the airline, and hard experience from past disasters. JAL set up a Safety Promotion Center at … Read more
When Racha Mousdikoudine turns on her kitchen tap, she never knows what will happen. “Maybe I won’t get any water at all,” she told CNN. “Maybe I’ll get 30 minutes of water. Maybe the water will only come after hours of waiting.” For the past four months, Mousdikoudine and her two children have had little … Read more
Another 31 Australian citizens, permanent residents and family members have left Gaza and made it to the safety of Egypt. The evacuation took the number of Australians the federal government has helped get out of the conflict-ridden region to 62, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said. “They are being supported by our consular staff in Egypt,” … Read more
Three men have been injured in a stabbing incident and taken to hospital after a woman wielded a knife on a train at Akihabara Station in Tokyo, Japanese police say. The police received an emergency call at just before 11pm on Wednesday saying the woman had inflicted injuries with a knife on the Yamanote loop … Read more
Japanese authorities say a passenger jet that collided with a Coast Guard turboprop at a Tokyo airport was given permission to land but the smaller plane was not cleared for take-off, based on control tower transcripts. All 379 people aboard the Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350 managed to escape after it erupted in flames following … Read more
When Rami Mahmoud left his family’s home in northern Gaza to buy food, his wife Elham Maged stayed behind to pray. When he made his way back through the narrow, tightly packed nearby streets of the Jabalya Refugee Camp, he returned to a scene of complete chaos. An Israeli airstrike had smashed into the centre … Read more
LONDON — Thousands of doctors walked off the job in Britain on Wednesday, the start of a six-day strike that was set to be the longest in the history of the state-funded National Health Service. Managers said tens of thousands scheduled appointments and operations will be canceled during the walkout across England and Wales by … Read more
The Earth’s temperature has briefly risen above a crucial threshold that scientists have been warning for decades could have catastrophic and irreversible impacts on the planet and its ecosystems. For the first time, the global average temperature on Friday last week was more than 2 degrees Celsius hotter than levels before industrialisation. That’s according to … Read more
Israel has killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, Lebanese and Palestinian security sources say, as its forces kept pummelling parts of Gaza, vowing further “high-intensity” warfare against the Islamist militant group in the enclave. Hamas’ al-Aqsa Radio and Lebanon’s pro-Iranian Mayadeen TV confirmed word from security sources … Read more
Sam Altman — the leader of one of the world’s most influential AI companies that created ChatGPT, OpenAI — was fired on Friday night by the startup’s board in a surprise move. Within about 48 hours, he was hired to run a new division at Microsoft where he’ll be arguably even more powerful, with the … Read more
