Aviation giant Airbus is one of the defendants in a class action which has been filed in the U.S. after a computer glitch on one of its A330-300s caused significant injury to a number of passengers. In October 2008 a Qantas flight from Singapore to Perth nose-dived twice in quick ...

The Louis Majesty, a cruise-liner carrying nearly 2,000 passengers and crew, has been hit by an 8-meter high freak wave off the coast of Spain. The wave’s impact has resulted in the deaths of two of the passengers and the injury of six others. No details other that that one ...

Jon Venables has been recalled into custody according to an announcement by the U.K. Ministry for Justice. In 1993 he and Robert Thompson shocked the world when they were arrested and convicted of the murder of two-year-old James Bulger. The pair were ten-years-old at the time and became the youngest ...

The British climate scientist who has stood down as the climate centre director because of arguments over climate change has apologised for sending out what he called some awful emails to sceptics requesting data. Professor Phil Jones who is at the centre of the climate-gate investigation also said that he defended ...

The extent of the devastation caused by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday is beginning to emerge as the official death toll passes 700. Over half those killed were in Chiles second largest city Concepcion. Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet has declared the disaster a catastrophe and said that ...

Three Malaysian women have been caned because they admitted that they were guilty of having had pre-marital sex. The handing down of the punishment by the Sharia courts follows last years sentence by the Islamic authorities that Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno receive six lashes of the cane after she was ...

A high speed train crash in Belgium has claimed the lives of at least 18 people. A further 162 have been injured 11 of who are in a serious condition. The accident is one of the worst train crashes in Belgian history and it occurred during rush hour as many ...

Fashion Week may well be under way in New York but the fashion world is in stunned mourning at the news that one of its greatest designers has committed suicide. Alexander McQueen, dubbed by some as the bad boy of fashion, has been found hanged in his London apartment. Born the son of ...

A man out for an early morning surf with his ten-year-old-son managed to win a potentially fatal tug of war with a shark. The man and his son were close to shore when the attack took place. The man says that as the shark tried to drag him out into ...

Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN as it is more commonly known, have announced that they plan to fire up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for a period of between 18 and 24 months in order to try and find the elusive Higgs Boson Particle. Since ...