All flights to and from London City Airport were cancelled on Monday after a World War Two bomb was discovered. The bomb was found during pre-planned work at the airport on Sunday morning in the River Thames at George V Dock, the airport management said. “All flights in and out of London City
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Egyptian police foiled on Friday a terrorist attack, killing three terrorists and arresting 14 others, as part of a nationwide anti-terror operation, the Interior Ministry announced. “Explosive devices and automatic guns were seized from the arrested persons, for carrying out other attacks before the beginning of the presidential elections,” the ministry said in a
The number of single parents in Hong Kong has dropped to about 10 per cent in 2016 from 2011, making single mothers to continue to outnumber single fathers, official statistics showed on Friday. The number of single parents first rose and then dropped in the past 10 years, from 76,423 in 2006 to 81,705 in […]
An explosion took place at a mosque in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, residents said. There was no immediate word on casualties. Two weeks ago, around 35 people were killed by a twin bombing at a mosque in the same city. NAN reports that on Jan. 23, a twin car bombing in […]
A graduate who tried to sue Oxford University because he just missed out on earning a top degree has had his claim thrown out. Faiz Siddiqui wanted £1m in damages from the university over what he described as “negligently inadequate teaching” that affected his degree grade 20 years ago. Siddiqui, of Bayswater, west London, claimed […]
Retired Pope Benedict XVI, who is due to turn 91 in April, told an Italian paper on Wednesday that he is preparing for death. “I was moved by the fact that so many readers of your paper want to know how I am spending this last period of my life. “The only thing I can […]
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