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Travellers stranded as Monarch Airlines suspends flights

Monday, 2 October 2017, 11:01 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Troubled British carrier Monarch Airlines has suspended flights after failing to resolve its financial woes, and authorities have launched a major operation to bring home 110,000 stranded...

Australian boy fatally crushed by gym weights

Monday, 2 October 2017, 06:23 Last update: about 10 years ago

An Australian teenager has died after being crushed by weightlifting equipment at a gym, the BBC reports. Ben Shaw, 15, was attempting to bench press almost 100kg (220 lb) when the accident...

'Yes' side wins Catalonia independence vote marred by chaos

Monday, 2 October 2017, 06:13 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Catalonia's regional government declared a landslide win for the "yes" side in a disputed referendum on independence from Spain that degenerated into mayhem Sunday, with more than 800 people injured...

'Lone wolf' suspected in Canada terror attack, police chase

Sunday, 1 October 2017, 20:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A car and knife attack on a police officer outside a football game and a high-speed chase of a moving van that left four people injured appear to be the work of a single suspected terrorist, Canadian...

Two women killed in French train station attack

Sunday, 1 October 2017, 16:09 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

French officials say that two women have been killed in the attack by a man with a knife at Marseille's main train station, including one whose throat was slit. The officials say soldiers then...

Greek police arrest 8 smugglers who brought in 38 migrants

Sunday, 1 October 2017, 06:56 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Greek police announced they have arrested eight migrant traffickers who reportedly smuggled 38 migrants through Greece's land border with Turkey. All the arrests were made Friday, in northern...

Updated: O.J. Simpson out of prison after 9 years for armed robbery

Sunday, 1 October 2017, 06:52 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist that brought the conviction and prison time he avoided after his 1995 acquittal in the killings of his ex-wife and her friend....

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