Teenager, 16, dies on flight between Seattle and Atlanta

The teen died aboard Delta Airlines Flight 128.

A TEENAGE boy has died on board a flight from Seattle to Atlanta in the US.

The flight was diverted to Spokane International Airport after the 16-year-old suffered a medical emergency on board Delta Airlines Flight 128.

He reportedly died of natural causes.

Delta spokesman Michael Thomas told KHQ Q6 News there were 258 passengers on board the Boeing 767 at the time.

Mr Thomas said passengers were being rebooked on flights to Atlanta from Spokane and a new crew was flying in to fly the remaining passengers to Atlanta.

Gay marriage lobby to pressure Abbott govt

THE honeymoon hadn't even begun for newlyweds Narell Majik and Ash Watson before the High Court of Australia declared their marriage constitutionally invalid.

The couple tied the knot in Canberra just a day before the court struck down the ACT's same-sex marriage laws in a brief but blunt judgment on Thursday.

"It does not feel any different to how it did before," Ms Watson said after the ruling.

The first legal gay marriage on Australian soil took place less than a week ago.

Western Australia state upper house MP Stephen Dawson, who married his partner in the early hours of Saturday in Canberra, said the court decision was disappointing.

Mr Croome said it was too early to tell whether the High Court decision left room for the ACT government to legislate in a different form.

But for Canberra resident Ivan Hinton, who married his partner Chris Teoh this week, the setback in the High Court hadn't dampened his determination to see his union validated.

"We will achieve marriage equality," he said.

NYPD investigation into Kenya's Westgate Mall terror attacks reveals the truth behind the massacre of more than 60 civilians

KENYA'S shopping mall massacre shook the world. Yet all it took was four terrorists with guns. Now, investigators say they all escaped.

It's a story of chaos, confusion - and corruption.

The New York Police Department has conducted its own in-depth analysis of the September attack which killed more than 60 at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi. It was an exercise designed to familiarise the often-targeted city's law enforcers with what to expect.

Their discoveries have debunked much of what Kenyan authorities claim, and painted a frightening picture of the power of a few angry men with guns.

And they doubt the terrorists died in the collapsing building.

"As a cop, I'm very sceptical of claims until I see proof," Lt. Detective Commander Kevin Yorke, who oversaw the report, said. He added that there is "a lot of doubt in my mind it is true."

Detective Yorke said it was only now a real picture was emerging from 'the fog of war'.

But the most startling component of the report is the dangerous incompetence shown by Kenya's military and police reaction.

Light attack ... The Kenyan mall attackers are believed to have been very lightly armed. A more determined and early police response may have prevented the high number of casualties.

Singapore's prime minister warns

The SINGAPORE authorities are monitoring the area of Little India after a senior leader warned the government would not tolerate that sparked the unrest.

At the same time, the security agencies have also focused on accessible accommodation and common foreign workers to come together after 400 people involved in the riots erupted on Saturday left 18 injured in Little India.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the unrest in the area as a serious entry in FB before vowed to bring those involved to justice.

No matter what the cause of the riot, violent behavior as criminals to bring destruction (property) is not acceptable.

We will find all those responsible and impose the appropriate punishment according to law, says Hsien Loong.

A lorry and car on fire 

Foreign workers rioted after a bus hit an Indian national, Kumaravelu Sakthivel, 33, caused his death at 9.20pm yesterday. The bus driver was arrested and is free after posting bail.

Station Channel News Asia showed mobs using wood and trash when attacking bus driven by local citizens concerned.


Chaos erupted at the intersection of Race Course Road and Hampshire Street near Tekka Centre in Little India.

A gang of protesters throwing objects to the police

As more join the protesters, they are noisy and throwing objects including an iron rod, vegetables, basket and divider sheets at the police.

Several police cars then reversed and another five vehicles, three belonging to the police, an ambulance SCDF and motorcycles on fire.


The authorities sent 300 members of the security to end the chaos that erupted the first time in Singapore in the last four decades with 27 people arrested and 24 were Indians, two Bangladeshi and a permanent resident.

Samsung damage control backfires after Galaxy S4 fire claim

A DAMAGE control attempt by Samsung has backfired spectacularly after the tech giant tried to pull down YouTube evidence of its phone catching fire.

YouTube user ghostlyrich posted a video showing proof his Samsung Galaxy S4 caught fire while charging - proof that was demanded by the company before it would replace his phone.

Ghostlyrich, from Canada, then posted a follow up video detailing Samsung's attempt to "silence" him and it has attracted almost half a million views - four times as many hits as the original video.

Ghostlyrich with his burnt Galaxy S4.

"The other night we plugged it in and we're like, you know, letting it charge. Literally nothing different. And then the smell of smoke and fire and destruction," he said.

He shows a close up of the burnt charging port and the phone case which has bubbled from the heat.

He says the fire caused damage to the internal hardware. He adds that it was lucky the lithium-ion battery did not catch fire because they can expand and explode into "molten flames".

In the second video Ghostlyrich reads from a letter he claims he received from Samsung asking him to take down the first video. He has posted a copy of the letteronline with names removed.

"I need to basically sign away the right to have my YouTube video up,'" he says. "I'm not allowed to tell you that this is a big thing."

The tech giant offers to replace his phone with a "similar model" but requires that he irrevocably absolve the company of any liability. He must also agree not to file any subsequent law suits against Samsung and must keep the details of his settlement confidential.

"They're trying to bandage it and keep people quiet," he said.

Man buys $100K Tesla Model S car with Bitcoins

Picture: Lamborghini Newport Beach

MANY have been quick to dismiss Bitcoins and label them as a passing tech fad.

But a luxury car dealership has blown that image out the window by accepting payment for a fancy sports car in Bitcoins.

A Florida man bought a Tesla Model S car for 91.4 Bitcoins, or approximately $103,000, from the Lamborghini Newport Beach dealership in southern California last week.

"We just sold our very first vehicle with Bitcoin as payment," the dealership stated in a blog post.

"That's right, an electronic currency was used to purchase a fully electric vehicle."

The purchase is believed to be the first car to ever be bought with the online currency, reports Mashable.

Little is known about the buyer, except that he called the dealership asking if he could pay for the car with Bitcoins.

They then worked with BitPay to make the sale happen, said the dealership's marketing director Cedric Davy.

"We had heard about it before, but we weren't extremely familiar, so we basically did our homework and looked for ways for us to convert it into dollars," Mr Davy.

"All these people have Bitcoins," he said. "I think some people are trying to spend it."

And the timing couldn't have been more perfect - the value of the digital currency dropped sharply on Friday, just days after the purchase.

Spain's famous 'ghost' airport goes up for sale

A HUGE airport in central Spain that cost one billion euros ($1.5 billion) to build but has not received a commercial flight since 2011 has gone up for auction for just 100 million euros.

With a runway long enough to land an Airbus 380, the world's largest airliner, and a capacity to handle 10 million passengers per year, the airport at Ciudad Real, some 200km south of Madrid, has become a symbol of Spain's real estate bubble.

Spain's first private international airport operated its first flight in December 2008 but passenger traffic never took off and CR Aeropuertos, the operator of the terminal, went into bankruptcy in June 2012 with debts of around 300 million euros.

It went up for auction on Monday for a starting price of 100 million euros to meet creditor demands and the bidding will close on December 27, a spokesman for a commercial court in Ciudad Real which is overseeing its sale said.

Ciudad Real, a city of around 75,000 residents located halfway between Madrid and Cordoba, attracts few visitors and the airport was designed to serve both the Spanish capital and the Andalusian coast which are both less than an hour away by high-speed rail. The airport, which reportedly cost around one billion euros to build, had its final commercial flight, from low-cost airline Vueling, at the end of 2011.

It remained open for another six months to receive a handful of private arrivals and in 2012 Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar used it for a week to film part of his latest film I'm So Excited! about a doomed passenger plane.

The Spanish film ‘I'm So Excited’ starring Javier Camara and Raul Arevalo was filmed at the airport.

Since then the airport's 4200-metre-long runway, Europe's longest, has had to be continually painted with yellow crosses so pilots flying over the airport will know they cannot land there, according to Spanish media reports.

Ciudad Real Airport. Picture

Several of the country's 47 public airports do not have any regular commercial flights and 15 move less than 100,000 passengers per year, or less than one flight per day.

Another private airport at Castellon on the Mediterranean coast has fared even worse than the one at Ciudad Real.

It opened in March 2011 but has not handled a single flight.