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- Nine killed as protests spread to Kandahar over Qur'an burning
- Police officer killed as car bomb explodes in Omagh, Northern Ireland
- Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team banned by FIFA
- UN workers killed by Afghans over burning of a Qur'an in Florida
- Southwest Airlines flight diverts due to 'rapid decompression in the cabin'
- Polar bear Knut's death linked to encephalitis
| Nine killed as protests spread to Kandahar over Qur'an burning Posted: Saturday, April 2, 2011 Violent protests over the burning of a Qur'an by a US church spread on Saturday to the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, a day after an angry mob attacked a United Nations compound at Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, killing seven UN workers and four Afghan protesters. More...   |
| Police officer killed as car bomb explodes in Omagh, Northern Ireland Posted: Saturday, April 2, 2011 A bomb positioned below the car of a police officer in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom has exploded, killing him. The unidentified 25-year-old officer, recently employed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland after graduating from a college of police training three weeks prior, was directly involved in the incident as he sat inside the vehicle outside his residence in Omagh, County Tyrone, which occurred at a time immediately before 1600 BST (1500 UTC) today. The man, who died at this location, has now been identified as Constable Ronan Kerr. It is currently uncertain as to whether or not any other individuals were killed or injured as a result of the incident. It is also unclear who was responsible for committing the act. It is thought that dissident republicans were responsible for the bomb blowing up today, due to numerous similar prior incidents involving them. More... |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team banned by FIFA Posted: Saturday, April 2, 2011 The national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been banned by FIFA, the governing body of international football. The ban comes after the Bosnian Football Federation (NSBIH) rejected a demand from FIFA to change its three-man presidency to a single president. The change was rejected on Wednesday during an NSBIH meeting, causing FIFA and European football governing body UFEA to make the decision to suspend the federation. More... |
| UN workers killed by Afghans over burning of a Qur'an in Florida Posted: Saturday, April 2, 2011 An Afghan mob attacked a United Nations compound last Friday, killing seven UN workers and setting fire to the compound. The attack occurred after several hours of peaceful protests, broadcast online, over the burning of a Qur'an by a Florida pastor. More... |
| Southwest Airlines flight diverts due to 'rapid decompression in the cabin' Posted: Saturday, April 2, 2011 Southwest Airlines Flight 812 carrying 118 passengers between Phoenix, Arizona and Sacramento, California was forced to divert to the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station in Arizona, after a hole was discovered in the top of the aircraft; the plane landed safely at Yuma. The plane was forced to make an emergency descent down to 11,000 feet and reportedly descended 16,000 feet in one minute. One passenger identified as Cindy said, "[t]hey had just taken drink orders when I heard a huge sound and oxygen masks came down and we started making a rapid decent. They said we'd be making an emergency landing. There was a hole in the fuselage about three feet long. You could see the insulation and the wiring. You could see a tear the length of one of the ceiling panels." More... |
| Polar bear Knut's death linked to encephalitis Posted: Saturday, April 2, 2011 Two weeks after the celebrity polar bear Knut died unexpectedly, an autopsy report shows that the immediate cause of death was drowning. It also reveals Knut was suffering from a brain disorder resulting in a seizure that led to his fall into the water. The four-year-old polar bear had been living at the at the Berlin zoo since birth and was a popular attraction. Just before his death he turned around in circles in front of hundreds of zoo visitors, and then fell into the pool in his enclosure and died. More... |
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