Man falls, hangs mid-air after trousers get hooked on 6th floor air conditioning unit

A 44-year-old man was rescued by firefighters yesterday morning after he was discovered hanging from an air conditioning unit on the sixth floor of an apartment building in North Point. The man, surnamed Yuan, is believed to have jumped from his 11th floor apartment at around 10:30am, only to be saved five stories down when his trousers got caught on an air conditioning unit, reports Apple Daily. advertising The police say that Yuan has...

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Co-pilot appears to have crashed Germanwings plane on purpose

A French gendarme helicopter flies over the moutainside crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes, March 25, 2015. REUTERS/Emmanuel Foudrot (Reuters) - A young German co-pilot locked himself alone in the cockpit of a Germanwings airliner and flew it into a mountain with what appears to have been the intent to destroy it, a French prosecutor said on Thursday. Investigators and grieving relatives were left struggling to explain what...

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Hong Kong man found guilty of killing and cooking parents

A Hong Kong man who was accused of killing, dismembering, salting and cooking his parents was found guilty of double murder Friday. During the 20-day trial the court heard how Henry Chau, 31, had dismembered his elderly parents before salting, cooking and packing their body parts into lunchboxes “like barbecued pork”. The severed heads of 65-year-old Chau Wing-ki and his wife Siu Yuet-yee, 62, were found in March 2013, stuffed into two refrigerators...

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VIDEO: New detailed images of Germanwings A320 crash site

A plane operated by the budget carrier of Germany's Lufthansa crashed in a remote area of the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 on board in France's worst aviation disaster in decades. With the cause of the accident a complete mystery, authorities recovered a black box from the Airbus A320 at the crash site, where rescue efforts were being hampered by the mountainous terrain. Local MP Christophe Castaner, who flew over the crash site,...

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Angelina Jolie has ovaries, fallopian tubes removed over cancer fears

Angelina Jolie says she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed over fears of cancer, following her double mastectomy two years ago. The actress, who has lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to the disease, said she had the procedure last week after results from a blood test raised fears that she may be in the early stages of cancer. Although later tests showed that was not the case, Jolie said she chose to go ahead with the surgery...

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