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Assaf Ramon, the pilot of an Israeli F-16 fighter jet, was killed on Sunday after his plane crashed in the West Bank, according to officials. Ramon was the eldest son of Israel's astronaut Ilan Ramon, who was one of six people killed in the February 2003 Columbia space shuttle explosion. The pilot's plane smashed into a hilly area near the city of Hebron, the Israeli military said, adding that the accident happened during a routine part of an advanced pilot course. Search and rescue have been dispatched to the area. It was not immediately

Six construction workers at Hong Kong's International Commerce Centre (ICC) were killed on Sunday when they fell seventeen stories down a lift shaft. The workers were standing on a platform on the 27th floor of the building when it collapsed. The ICC's building developers from Sun Hung Kail Properties, Ltd., said they would pay the families of the victims at least HK$1 million (US$129,000) apiece and pay for funeral costs. Donald Tsang, the city's CEO, said a full investigation into the incident would be launched. The International Commerce

A fire at a drug treatment hospital near Almaty, Kazakhstan, killed it least 38 people on Saturday, authorities have said. Ten more people have been hospitalised, two of them in critical condition. The blaze started at approximately 05.30 local time (23.30 UTC) in Taldykorgan. The fire spread quickly, consuming almost 650 square metres of land. "According to tentative data, 38 people were killed, of which 36 were patients and two were medical personnel," the national emergency situation ministry stated. The ministry says that emergency cre

Maffra has won the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League (WGLFL) Preliminary Final against Moe this weekend at Western Park, Warragul 16-21 117 to 9-10 65. Scores below are quoted as goals-behinds (total). Goals are worth six points, behinds one. The two teams played in the WGLFL Qualifying Final. On that occasion Moe ran out winners 14-9 (93) to 8-8 (56). Moe qualified for this match after losing to Traralgon 13-10 88 to 7-14 56 in the major Semi Final. Maffra qualified by defeated Leongatha 19-19 123 to 8-11 59 in the minor Semi Final. T

This past week, British Commandos saved a British journalist, Stephen Farrell from what could have been a very dangerous situation as he had been abducted by Taliban insurgents in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan last weekend. During the raid, one of the rescuers and the journalist's translator were killed in addition to about three others according to conflicting reports. Farrell, a journalist from The New York Times and dual British-Irish citizen, and his Afghan interpreter, Sultan Munadi, were taken captive by the Taliban while covering a Septe

Former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman has revealed that he has been diagnosed with Bell's palsy. The condition has resulted in partial paralysis of the left side of Coleman's face due to inflammation of the nerves leading to that area. Bell's palsy tends to imitate the symptoms of a stroke. It seldom lasts longer than eight weeks. Doctors have told Coleman that he should fully recover. Coleman discussed the situation with BringMeTheNews reporter Rick Kupchella in his first in-depth, on-camera interview since the U.S. Senate recount ended in June.

Following the recent unrest in Iran, and the forced closing of Mehdi Karroubi’s office on September 8, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei warned the opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and their supporters that they will be "confronted." "The system will not take action against anyone as long as they perform within the framework of the system, do not resort to violence, do not disturb the calm in society and do not carry out unlawful actions such as spreading lies and rumors," stated Khamenei during the Friday prayers. Th

Frank Batten, the businessman who founded The Weather Channel, has died at the age of 82. Batten died on September 10 after a long illness in Norfolk. He is survived by his wife Jane and two daughters. Batten started as a reporter and publisher and later ran a communications empire which included several newspapers and cable television. The nephew of Samuel L. Slover, he assumed leadership of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star in 1954. He opened up his own communications empire Landmark Communications and added The Greensboro Daily Ne

A 29-year-old woman is dead after she fell from the roof of a University of Toronto building, apparently seeking ghosts. The deceased, which some reports say was Leah Kubik, was exploring a building at 1 Spadina Crescent with a male companion around 2:00 a.m. (EDT). She attempted to make a jump from one section of the building to another and missed, resulting in a three-story fall into a courtyard below. Kubik was taken to St Michael's Hospital in Toronto where doctors pronounced her dead. According to the Toronto Star, the pair had been drin

Ongoing violence between national security forces and supporters of the king of an ethnic group have killed at least ten people in Kampala, Uganda. The clashes have now been going on for two days. The conflict began when Muwenda Mutebi, the monarch of the ethnic group Buganda was prevented from travelling to the region of Kayunga by the government. Kayunga had said it seceded from his kingdom. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni said he wouldn't permit Mutebi into the Kayunga province. "I told him [Mutebi] that the meeting in Kayunga will not

Chen Shui-bian, the former president of Taiwan, has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted on charges of corruptions. The Taipei District Court found Chen guilty of embezzling over US$3 million from a presidential affairs fund. The ex-president was also convicted of having accepted $9 million worth of bribes connected with government land deals. Chen's wife, Wu Shu-chen, the former first lady, was also jailed for life. Several hundred demonstrators protesting against Chen's conviction were outside the court, some of which th

The Calabasas, California private elementary school New Village Leadership Academy (NVLA) opened its 2009–10 school year this week amid controversy over its connections to Scientology. The school was founded by celebrity couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, who paid about US$1 million to lease the facility in 2008. Former head of school Jacqueline Olivier was removed from her job in July, and replaced by Piano Foster, an individual who has taken Scientology courses at the organization's Celebrity Centre. Smith and Pinkett-Smith are good