Twitter, Facebook connect stranded travellers to airlines

Twitter, Facebook connect stranded travellers to airlines
Unruly passengers force plane to return mid-air
Inaction and delays by New York as storm bore down
Kuwait Parliament votes to lift restriction on beards in military
US revokes Venezuela ambassador's visa over Chavez row
Five arrested for Danish terror plot
Putin cancels new year holidays for govt officials
Police arrest five in Danish terror plot
Man stole video game from boy's casket
Acid attacker to lose eye, ear in Iran
Why this beauty pageant skipped a swimsuit round
How Disney World's tackling those long lines for rides
Autistic teen allowed to become a woman: Report
Watch: Video shows danger of texting while driving
Man arrested for body found in suitcase
Australia's worst flood in fifty years
Over 200 US skiers stranded after chairlift derails

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Some travellers stranded by the great snowstorm of 2010 discovered a new lifeline for help. When all else fails, Twitter might be the best way to book a seat home.

Unruly passengers force plane to return mid-air

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A group of unruly passengers forced a Gulf Air plane flying from Bahrain to Paris to take a U-turn mid-air and return to offload the disruptive travelers. The plane that had taken off from Bahrain was about 25 nautical miles east of Kuwait City when the captain made the decision to eject the trouble makers, a news report said. "Three passengers of a group of five on Gulf Air flight GF 019 from Bahrain to Paris on December 28 behaved in an unruly and disruptive manner onboard after the flight took off from Bahrain airport," Katherine Genowefa Kaczynska, senior manager of corporate communication, told Gulf News.

Inaction and delays by New York as storm bore down

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New York snow: At 3:58 am on Christmas Day, the National Weather Service upgraded its alert about the snow headed to New York City, issuing a winter storm watch. By 3:55 pm, it had declared a formal blizzard warning, a rare degree of alarm. But city officials opted not to declare a snow emergency — a significant mobilization that would have, among other things, aided initial snow plowing efforts.

Kuwait Parliament votes to lift restriction on beards in military

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Kuwait's parliament voted to adopt a bill that would allow men in the country's military to wear beards.

US revokes Venezuela ambassador's visa over Chavez row

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Washington has revoked the visa of Venezuela's ambassador to the US, Venezuela's deputy foreign minister has said on his Twitter account, amid a bilateral row over diplomatic envoys.

Five arrested for Danish terror plot

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Police in Denmark and Sweden said they thwarted a terrorist attack possibly hours before it was to begin on Wednesday, arresting five men they say planned to shoot as many people as possible in a Copenhagen building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Putin cancels new year holidays for govt officials

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin harshly reprimanded officials on Wednesday over a winter weather shutdown at Moscow airports that left thousands stranded for days, and he banned high-ranking officials from taking vacations until further notice.

Police arrest five in Danish terror plot

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Police in Sweden and Denmark on Wednesday arrested five men suspected of plotting an attack against the Danish newspaper that published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, security officials in those countries said.

Man stole video game from boy's casket

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State police are trying to find a Pennsylvania man who they say stole a hand-held video game system and accessories from the casket of a teen who had been killed in an SUV crash on Christmas Day.

Acid attacker to lose eye, ear in Iran

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An Iranian court has ruled that a man must lose an eye and an ear after he blinded and burnt an ear of another man in an acid attack, newspapers reported today.

Why this beauty pageant skipped a swimsuit round

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They didn't have a swimsuit round. But other than that, the divas that competed at a beauty pageant in Nepal's Chitwan National Park were exceptionally well-groomed. For elephants, that is.

How Disney World's tackling those long lines for rides

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Deep in the bowels of Walt Disney World, inside an underground bunker called the Disney Operational Command Centre, technicians know that you are standing in line and that you are most likely annoyed about it. Their clandestine mission: to get you to the fun faster.

Autistic teen allowed to become a woman: Report

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In an extraordinary case, a 16-year-old autistic schoolboy has been allowed by a court in Australia to become a woman on the condition that he gets his sperm frozen in case he wants to have children in the future

Watch: Video shows danger of texting while driving

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Watch: Video shows danger of texting while driving - The 11-minute documentary was developed by AT&T to warn young people about the dangers of texting and driving.

Man arrested for body found in suitcase

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An East Harlem man was arrested on Monday and charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase left on East 114th Street in Manhattan, the police said

Australia's worst flood in fifty years

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Australia's worst flood in decades is affecting more residents across the region with Queensland state declaring on Wednesday that two new disaster areas and at least two other towns are also preparing to evacuate.