Foreigners among 22 missing after boat sinks in China

Photo Credits: NetEase Photo Credits: NetEase More than 20 people, including four Singaporeans, were missing Friday after a tugboat sank on a trial voyage on the Yangtze, China's longest river, state media and authorities said. The newly built vessel was undergoing testing with 25 people aboard in the eastern province of Jiangsu on Thursday afternoon when the accident happened, state media said. Three...

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Another hostage-taking at Paris suburb post office

A suspect in a hostage taking situation raises his arms in the air as he is detained by members of special French RAID forces outside the post offices in Colombes outside Paris, January 16, 2015. (REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer) A gunman who took two people hostage in a post office in Colombes, a suburb of northwest Paris, has been arrested after giving himself up to police. The hostages were released unharmed, according...

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WATCH: Maroon 5 crashed a few weddings and the result is amazing

Maroon 5's latest gig? Wedding crashers! In their music video for "Sugar" the boys of the pop band crash a number of weddings with surprise performances. Watch video below: ...

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Thousands welcome Pope Francis to the Philippines

‘OVERWHELMING WELCOME.’ Pope Francis tries to catch his cap on his arrival at the Villamor Airbase. Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP PASAY CITY, Philippines – Pope Francis arrived to a rapturous welcome in Manila late afternoon Thursday, January 15. The Sri Lankan Airlines A340 plane that brought him from Colombo, Sri Lanka, the first leg of his Asian tour, landed at the Villamor Airbase at 5:32 pm local time, as bells simultaneously...

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Chinese man gets 8 billion RMB put into account by mistake

The bank giveth and the bank taketh away: a real estate employee in Chuzhou city, Anhui province momentarily enjoyed a hefty eight-billion yuan deposit that, seemingly miraculously, showed up in his bank account one day. The bank soon after took the money out and apologized to the man upon realizing that it was a system error. Li discovered the sum of money in his bank account as he went to transfer funds into his savings account, people.cn...

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BREAKING: Last words of crashed AirAsia flight's pilot revealed

Photo Credits: Reuters Following the recovery of the two “black boxes” aboard the crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501, a story on Yahoo! News reports that “Allahuakhbar, Allahuakhbar were the last words [the pilots] said before they died.” AirAsia Flight QZ8501, a flight out of Surabaya, Indonesia and bound for Singapore, took off early Sunday December 28, 2014 in what can only be described as violent weather.  The pilots, amidst...

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FOUND: Fuselage of AirAsia flight QZ8501

SINGAPORE: The main fuselage of the downed AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 has been found by a Republic of Singapore Navy vessel, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Wednesday (Jan 14). He said the hoped that locating the main wreckage of the Airbus A320-200 aeroplane could help bring "some form of closure" to families of victims. “Chief of Navy RADM Lai Chung Han just informed me that one of SAF’s ships, the MV Swift Rescue, has located...

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WATCH: New Avengers Trailer Arrives - Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer 2

Ultron returns to cause even more trouble for our heroes in another trailer for Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron," in theaters May 1! ...

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Man tries to smuggle 94 iPhones into China

This man was reportedly caught with 94 iPhones strapped to his body A Hong Kong man was arrested with 94 iPhones taped to his body in an attempt to smuggle them into China, reports said on Monday. According to photos shared by China's Sina News online, the man had strapped models of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus around his torso and thighs, using masking tape. The smartphones were seized at Futian Port, an immigration port of entry...

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29 arrested over Malaysia 'birthday orgy'

KUALA LUMPUR - Police in mainly Muslim Malaysia arrested 29 people including two auxiliary police officers in a raid on a birthday party which they said Monday had turned into a drug-fuelled orgy. Officers were called to a hotel in the town of Klang near the capital Kuala Lumpur early Sunday after a complaint about noise in one of the rooms. Ten women and 19 men were arrested while drugs including heroin, ecstasy and ketamine were impounded,...

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AirAsia crash: Cockpit voice-recorder found

Indonesian soldiers display the cockpit voice recorder of AirAsia QZ8501 on Tuesday. Divers recovered the second of two black boxes from AirAsia AIRASIA, +4.20%  Flight 8501 on Tuesday, clearing the path for an investigation into the crash to begin in earnest. Officials picked up the recorder by helicopter from a ship where divers had put it after retrieving it, and brought it to Pangkalan Bun, where they showed it to...

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British Airways flight reaches supersonic speeds due to strong jet stream

A surging jet stream in the lower atmosphere helped a British Airways passenger jet approach supersonic speeds as it blasted across the Atlantic Ocean in record time. Though the Concorde jet has put up its wings quite some time back, a humble Boeing 777-200 jet reached ground speeds of 745 mph as it rode winds of more than 200 mph across the Atlantic. The plane was quite close to breaking the sound barrier. At ground level, the speed of sound...

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Golden Globes 2015: See All the Winners

“Boyhood,” “Transparent,” Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore went home big winners at the 72nd annual Golden Globes. Here is the full list of winners. Best Motion Picture – Drama Winner: Boyhood Foxcatcher The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything Lead Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Winner: Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything Steve Carell – Foxcatcher Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler David...

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Divers retrieve AirAsia 'black box', explosion theory questioned

The flight data recorder of AirAsia QZ8501 is transferred to another container at the airbase in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside The flight data recorder from AirAsia QZ8501 is placed into a container upon its arrival at the airbase in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside Indonesian military policemen carry the flight data recorder from AirAsia...

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BREAKING NEWS: AirAsia QZ8501 black box found - Indonesia authorities

AirAsia QZ8501: Divers find black box, Indonesia ministry says The flight recorder from the crashed AirAsia QZ8501 flight has been discovered in the Java Sea, Indonesian authorities confirmed in a statement. According to the country’s Directorate General of Marine Transport, the black box will be retrieved from the seabed on Monday. Earlier on Sunday, strong signals from the recorders were detected not far from where the tail part was...

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Getting closer: Pacquiao, Mayweather agree on fight venue

The Associated Press - Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bob Arum and Manny Pacquiao remain hugely influential figures. (AP/Special to Yahoo Sports) The camps of WBC champion Floyd Mayweather (47-0-0) and WBO champion Manny Pacquiao (57-5-2) got through one hurdle for the highly-anticipated mega-fight as they both agreed that it would be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas. “We’re making progress,” a boxing authority involved...

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AirAsia plane fuselage that could contain bodies and black boxes suspected to be found

Indonesian search teams found the tail section of the ill-fated AirAsia flight Indonesian search teams believe they have discovered the fuselage, or main body, of the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea two weeks ago with hopes that the black box recorders would also be found. Divers are hoping that calmer sea conditions tomorrow will allow them to retrieve the black box recorders that contain flight data after they...

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Nikon 1200-1700mm helps French photographers capture hostage situation from a safe distance

Le Monde journalist Maxime Goldbaum tweeted the above photograph this morning as a hostage situation involving Charlie Hebdo suspects unfolded in Dammartin-en-Goële, France. It seems that the Nikon 1200-1700mm is a tool in Reuters’ arsenal that’s used to keep photojournalists at a safe distance. Here’s a zoomed and cropped look at the lens mounted to what appears to be a Canon DSLR: The Nikkor 1200-1700mm f/5.6-8 is a pretty rare beast. It...

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China travelers open emergency exits to protest flight delay

The plane's emergency exits were forced open. BEIJING (AP) — Upset by a delayed flight, two Chinese passengers decided to open emergency exit doors in protest as the plane was taxiing, forcing it to abort takeoff and landing them in jail instead, police said Sunday. The latest in a growing number of air rage cases involving Chinese travelers happened in the early hours of Saturday morning in the southwestern city of Chengdu,...

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Woman finds 'dental material' in Japan McDonald's burger

Woman finds 'dental material' in Japan McDonald's burger Tokyo (AFP) - A Japanese woman got more than a mouthful when she claimed to have discovered fragments later identified as "dental material" in a McDonald's hamburger, marking the fast-food chain's latest food quality embarrassment. The discovery of the objects, confirmed by McDonald's to be dental on Friday, comes two days after the company admitted several foreign objects...

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Getting closer: Pacquiao, Mayweather agree on fight venue

The Associated Press - Floyd Mayweather Jr., Bob Arum and Manny Pacquiao remain hugely influential figures. (AP/Special to Yahoo Sports) The camps of WBC champion Floyd Mayweather (47-0-0) and WBO champion Manny Pacquiao (57-5-2) got through one hurdle for the highly-anticipated mega-fight as they both agreed that it would be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas. “We’re making progress,” a boxing authority involved...

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Magnitude 6.0 quake jolts parts of Luzon, Metro Manila

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake jolts Luzon. (Photo from PHIVOLCS) MANILA, Philippines—A 6.0-magnitude earthquake shakes parts of Luzon, including Metro Manila around 3:31 a.m. Sunday, not 5.7-magnitude as reported earlier. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), through its website, corrected its earlier assessment. The epicenter was 43 kilometers south east of San Antonio town in Zambales, with a depth...

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