The Japanese fighter caught the American pilot from behind, riddling his plane with machine-gun rounds. The left engine burst into flames. It was time to bail out.
He yanked on the release lever but the cockpit canopy only half-opened. He unbuckled his seat belt, rose to shake the canopy loose and was instantly sucked out.
Swinging beneath his opened parachute, he plunged toward a Pacific island jungle of thick, towering …
Two British teenagers arrested in Ghana for allegedly carryingcocaine worth pounds300,000 have claimed they were unwittingly setup.
The 16-year-old girls have been "provisionally charged" after theywere arrested on July 2 at Accra airport as they attempted to board aBritish Airways flight to London.
Police identified the two as Yasemin Vatansever, the London-borndaughter of immigrants from Cyprus, and Yatunde Diya, a Britishcitizen of Nigerian descent, said Mark Ewuntomah, a spokesman for theGhana Narcotics Control Board.
Yasemin said she and her friend were tricked into carrying drugsto London.
Speaking by telephone from prison in …
On the night of the first anniversary of 9/11, in the city square where you can take the very pulse beat of Roxbury, Grove Hall, people gathered together for solace at William E. Reed Auditorium.
Patriots all, there were ministers and musicians, U.S. Armed Forces veterans and a City Councilman, actors and dancers, and citizens from teens to the elderly. The audience was brought to tears more than once.
The heartfelt memorial service and tribute, "Healing in Life," was sponsored by Tri-Ad Veterans League, Inc. headed by Haywood Fennell, Sr. With him in carrying out the eclectic programming, which embraced classical to R&B music accenting the patriotic mode, was the …
Police say lightning struck 32 football players training in western Germany, seriously injuring nine of them.
A police statement late Friday says the footballers were practicing in Wald Michelbach, a village south of Frankfurt, when lightning struck.
The …
A jet headed for Spain's Canary Islands came off the runway at Dortmund airport in western Germany on Sunday, but no one was injured, authorities said.
The pilot of the Air Berlin Boeing 737-800, with 165 passengers and six crew members on board, had decided to abort the takeoff because of a "technical irregularity" that is still being examined, airline spokeswoman Diane Daedelow said.
The aircraft braked but came off the runway in wintry conditions. It came to rest with its nose pointing down a slight snow-covered slope.
The plane was undamaged and passengers were able to leave the aircraft normally using steps, Daedelow said.
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It might be worth the price of admission to Comiskey Park whenslugger Jose Canseco and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays come calling for athree-game series starting Tuesday.
Canseco not only jumped out to the major-league home run lead (hehad eight through Friday), but he was smacking them out of sight.
A couple of weeks ago, he reached the third deck at SkyDome inToronto. Last week, he hit two balls completely out of Fenway Parkon …
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Joint statement: US, Pakistan agree to …
