Tuesday, April 11, 2017
United Airlines’ shares seen sliding, $1bn off the group’s total market value? After passenger was dragged from overbooked flight
The slump could wipe as much as $1bn off the group’s total market value
Shares in United Continental Holdings are expected to fall around 5 per cent on Tuesday, based on futures trading contacts, as the company continues to draw fierce criticism for violently removing a passenger from an overbooked United Airlines flight so staff could take his seat. Footage of the incident was shared on social media and prompted outrage globally.
The man who was removed from the flight said that he was a doctor and needed to get home to treat patients the next day.
He was filmed with blood flowing down his chin afterwards, saying: “I want to go home, I want to go home.”
Explosion hits police compound in southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir
An explosion in a police compound in Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir wounded several people and sent a large plume of grey smoke rising over surrounding buildings on Tuesday, but the cause of the blast was not immediately clear.
A police source said the explosion appeared to have taken place in a vehicle repair section of the police compound, causing part of the roof to collapse and wounding at least four people. The Dogan news agency said one was in a critical condition.
The blast comes ahead of a hotly contested referendum on Sunday on broadening President Tayyip Erdogan’s powers, a constitutional change opposed by many in the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeast.
The explosion was in the central, largely residential district of Baglar, where a car bombing by suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants wounded scores of people last November.
Diyarbakir is the largest city in Turkey’s southeast, where the PKK has fought an insurgency against the state for more than three decades to press demands for Kurdish autonomy. Violence has flared since a ceasefire collapsed in July 2015.
Source: Explosion hits police compound in southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir | Reuters
Toshiba warns its survival is at risk as financial losses mount
Toshiba has warned its very survival is at risk while releasing twice-delayed financial results showing huge losses that its auditors were unable to approve.
The crisis-hit firm said: “There are events and circumstances that may bring about significant questions about the idea of (carrying on) as a going concern,” in a Japanese language statement accompanying the unaudited figures.
They showed a loss of 532.5bn yen (£3.9bn) in the nine months to December 2016 and suggested annual losses to the end of March were on track to come in at 1.1tn yen (£8bn).
The company, a colossus of corporate Japan with 188,000 employees globally, had been threatened with expulsion from the Tokyo Stock Exchange unless it met the extended deadline of Tuesday to file its accounts.
Source: Toshiba warns its survival is at risk as financial losses mount
How the world reacted to United Airlines throwing a passenger off their plane
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A rubbish truck caught fire on Albany Higway causing traffic delays
The vehicle burst into flames just outside Armadale Primary School just before 2pm Tuesday.
Earlier, Main Roads closed Armadale Road at Carradine Road as well as Albany Highway eastbound at South Western Highway.
Motorists are still being advised to seek an alternative route.
VIDEO LINK: A rubbish truck caught fire on Albany Higway causing traffic delays | Perth Now
Passenger dragged off flight to make room for STAFF of United Airlines!
As the flight waited to depart from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, police officers could be seen grabbing the screaming man from a window seat, pulling him across the armrest and dragging him down the aisle by his arms.
The airline was trying to make room for four of its employees on the Sunday evening flight to Louisville, Kentucky.
Passenger Audra D Bridges posted the video on Facebook. Her husband, Tyler Bridges, said United offered $US400 and then $US800 in vouchers and a hotel stay for volunteers to give up their seats.
When no-one volunteered, a United manager came on the plane and announced passengers would be chosen at random.
“We almost felt like we were being taken hostage,” Mr Bridges said.
“We were stuck there. You can’t do anything as a traveller. You’re relying on the airline.”
When airline employees named four customers who had to leave the plane, three of them did so. The fourth person refused to move, and police were called, United spokesman Charlie Hobart said.
Journalist who exposed Donald Trump charitable claims wins Pulitzer and revealed ‘grab ’em by the pussy’ tape
During the US election campaign last year, the reporter investigated the President’s philanthropic works over his business career, revealing that Mr Trump had made his fundraising seem more impressive than it actually was.
Following Mr Fahrenthold’s reporting, the New York Attorney General opened an inquiry into the Trump Foundation fundraising practices, and ultimately issued a “notice of violation” ordering the foundation to stop raising money in New York.
The Pulitzers, given out by Columbia University, are the most prestigious prizes in American journalism for newspaper and digital news coverage.
AirAsia pilot convicted of Perth rape
Alfred Gerard Eravelly, 50, broke into the victim’s Scarborough home in the early hours of March 9, 1996, then tied her up and sexually assaulted her, leaving behind DNA that was later analysed and led to his arrest.
He was charged with five counts of aggravated sexual penetration without consent and one count each of burglary, unlawful detention and unlawful wounding after he flew back to Australia from Kuala Lumpur in February last year.
After a six-day trial in the District Court of WA, he was convicted of all charges and will be sentenced on June 22.
Source: AirAsia pilot convicted of Perth rape | Perth Now
Monday, April 10, 2017
#F1 Vettel-Hamilton battle could it get even better? Bahrain Next Fri/Sat/Sun
“Right now, we’re fighting up against a four-time world champion,” Hamilton said after the race. “He is at his best and he is phenomenally quick. Ferrari are at their best in years. So we’re at our best as a team, and I feel like I’m at my best.
“The ultimate fighter always wants to go up against the best battle he can have because then when you come out on top, it’s so much more satisfying. I love this fight. It’s going to go right down to the end of the season, and I hope for both of us there’s nothing mechanical comes between our sheer battle in ability.”
More + video here: F1 has the Vettel-Hamilton battle it was waiting for, but could it get even better?
‘We Stepped Over Dead Bodies On The Streets To Escape’: BBC Yalda Hakin in Mosul
BBC World News foreign correspondent Yalda Hakin on reporting in Mosul
“First they shot my father dead, then as we tried to get away, the sniper shot my mother. I hate [ISIS], they are evil criminals,” 12 year old Mohamad tells me.
Covered in dust, his loose fitting trousers are rolled up and his flip-flops torn, all reminders of the horrors he has endured in the past few days as he fled his home in west Mosul. Mohammad recalls in graphic detail how he and his two younger brothers managed to get away, leaving the corpses of their parents behind and treading on other dead bodies.
The city of his birth is now destroyed. Reduced to rubble. For almost three years Mohamed had lived under the brutal rule of the Islamic-State and its so called Caliphate. His parents stopped sending him to school, like so many others because of the change in curriculum once ISIS came to town. The only thing the children were being taught at school was to kill, that all other religions and sects deserved to die and that it was for the greater-good of the caliphate and for the sake of Islam.
I met Mohamed when we visited the Hamam Al-Alil camp just South of Mosul, while reporting for BBC World News. He is now eager to learn again. Every day he comes to the camp’s makeshift UNICEF school. He grips tightly onto his new schoolbag given to him by the aid agency. Mohamad says he doesn’t think about the future, he just doesn’t want ISIS to return to his city…
MORE: BBC World News foreign correspondent Yalda Hakin on reporting in Mosul
Johnny Depp puffs on roll up ciggie as he resumes filming on LAbyrinth in Downtown LA
He plays a lawman investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls in late 1990s Los Angeles.
And on Monday Johnny Depp was spotted on the location set of the film LAbyrinth in the city’s Downtown area.
The actor, 53, puffed on a roll up ciggie as he walked in costume to where the cameras were set up surrounded by his assistants.
Depp portrays real life LAPD detective Russell Poole who investigated the killings of the two high profile rappers.
The movie is based on the 2002 non-fiction book LAbyrinth by former Rolling Stone journalist Randall Sullivan…
Source: Johnny Depp puffs on roll up ciggie as he films LAbyrinth | Daily Mail Online
Driver trapped/five passengers injured as bus crashes at Sydney’s St James Station
Five patients have been rushed to hospital after a bus crashed with another vehicle in the middle of Sydney’s city centre just before peak hour.
The accident occurred on Elizabeth Street outside St James train station at about 3pm on Tuesday.
Initially the bus driver was trapped, while paramedics treated four people for injuries.
The driver was later freed, but suffered lower leg injuries, Ambulance NSW said.
Two patients were rushed to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and three to St Vincent’s Hospital.
Images a a bus and a ute badly damaged, with a number of emergency services at the scene.
More to come.
Source: Bus crash at St James Station in Sydney | Daily Mail Online
Perth flight locked down over white powder
Firefighters in chemical suits boarded the plane after it landed at Perth airport on Tuesday morning and helped passengers evacuate before securing the substance – believed to be a white powder – and removing it from the aircraft.
Officials quickly established that the substance was not explosive and at about 1pm Virgin Australia confirmed that the white powder was harmless.
The passengers were mostly FIFO workers and were held in an airport lounge while staff from the Chemistry Centre attempted to determine what the substance was.
Source: Perth flight locked down over white powder | Perth Now
Chloe Khan grips a Coke bottle between her BOOBS in her sexiest photoshoot ever
CHLOE Khan produces her raunchiest photoshoot to date for the latest edition of Magic magazine.
All eyes were firmly on the Celebrity Big Brother star’s chest as she sandwiched a bottle of Coca-Cola between her breasts.
Dressed in a revealing red co-ord set, Chloe, 26, pulled down her tiny bandeau top and used her hands to cover her modesty.
Sitting cross-legged on the floor in a pair of nude heels and suspenders, Chloe cheekily placed her finger to her rouge-covered lips…
Source: Chloe Khan grips a Coke bottle between her BOOBS in her sexiest photoshoot ever
Breaking Bad Giancarlo Esposito Los Pollo Hermanos pop up Sydney restaurant…
The fictional chicken restaurant, which served as the perfect cover for sinister meth dealer Gus Fring, popped up in the Sydney CBD in honour of Better Call Saul third season release on streaming service Stan.
Fans were able to experience a taste of the infamous eatery, with free meals of fried chicken, hot chips, sauce and drink on offer.
Did someone say, Heisenburgers? Sydney’s Breaking Bad fans were sent into meltdown this week thanks to the arrival of a pop-up Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant
None other than the fictional restaurateur/drug lord Gus Fring (played by Giancarlo Esposito) made an appearance at the Tuesday opening of the restaurant, leaving fans buzzing with excitement…
more: Breaking Bad Giancarlo Esposito Los Pollo Hermanos pop up | Daily Mail Online
