By: Jessica Murphy and James FitzGerald BBC News, Toronto and London Delta Air Lines is offering US$30,000 (£23,792) to each person on board a plane that crash-landed in Toronto on Monday – all of whom survived. As it landed in the Canadian city, the plane skidded along the runway in flames before flipping over and coming to a halt upside ...

Eve Webster BBC News At about 03:30 GMT on Wednesday, the sky across northern Europe was illuminated by an object zooming through the air in flames. “I immediately thought of a sci-fi movie where it looked like a troop formation about to attack,” Simon Eriksson, a workman from Malmo, told the Swedish state broadcaster. The pyrotechnics were in fact caused ...

Source: Bbc News President Donald Trump’s attempts to shrink the federal bureaucracy are heading to the Supreme Court, according to US media. He has filed an emergency appeal to the country’s highest court to rule on whether he can fire the leader of an independent whistleblowing agency. Hampton Dellinger, head of the US Office of Special Counsel, sued the Trump ...

By VOA News Hamas officials accused Israel of violating a ceasefire agreement Monday and threatened to delay releasing more hostages, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to say “all hell is going to break out” if all the remaining hostages are not turned over by Saturday. The next exchange was set for Saturday, with three more Israelis set to be freed ...

Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female categories of sports. The order provides guidance, regulations and legal interpretations, and it will enlist the Department of Education to investigate high schools thought to be non-compliant. Republicans say it restores fairness to sports but LGBT ...

Doug Faulkner BBC News A 15-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed at a school in Sheffield has been described as a “lovely lad” and the “life of a party”. Floral tributes and messages have been left outside All Saints Catholic High School, where the boy, named locally as Harvey Willgoose, was injured. A boy, 15, has been arrested on suspicion ...

Joel Guinto and James FitzGerald BBC News No survivors are expected after a passenger plane collided in midair with a helicopter near Washington DC’s Ronald Reagan airport on Wednesday evening. The plane was carrying 64 passengers and crew when it crashed into the Potomac River after the collision. The helicopter had three people on board, who were labelled a “fairly ...

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA An Israeli female soldier held in Gaza has been released in the third phase of a ceasefire and captive exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. The release of Agam Berger took place on Thursday as she emerged from under the rubble at the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza that has repeatedly been targeted by Israeli forces since ...

Former Ho Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Divine RK Bosson, is demanding a retraction and apology from Evangelist Thomas Sumaila over a widely circulated video. Hon. Bosson’s lawyers claim the video is malicious and defamatory. Evangelist Sumaila has three days to render an unqualified apology through the same mediums used. Failure to comply will result in legal action. The controversy has ...

Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi Kenya will allow citizens of nearly all African countries to visit without needing prior authorisation, according to a new directive by the cabinet. Last year, Kenya introduced a “visa-free” policy that required most visitors to apply online for authorisation before leaving their country. But the introduction of the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), which replaced the ...