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.

10 Of The Funniest Song Parodies

Pop music certainly has its place in the world, offering simple pleasures from catchy tunes that burrow their way into your head where they remain until another, more powerful, ditty comes along. It doesn’t matter whether it’s your preferred genre or not, certain pop songs will still enter into your subconscious and lay dormant until you catch yourself singing the chorus in the shower one morning.

• Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know

• Alanis Morissette – Ironic

• Carly Rae Jepson – Call Me Maybe

• One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful

• Nickelback – Photograph

• Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way

• LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem

• Rebecca Black – Friday

• Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

• PSY – Gangnam Style

Director James Wan says Fast & Furious film will go ahead after star Paul Walker's death

AUSSIE director James Wan says the seventh installment of The Fast & the Furious franchise will go ahead, despite the death of its star, Paul Walker.

When approached by TMZ at LAX, Wan said, that while the cast is still "dealing" with the loss, he expected the movie to go ahead.

Universal Pictures announced in a statement they would be shutting down production on the franchise following Walker’s death.

"Right now, all of us at Universal are dedicated to providing support to Paul's immediate family and our extended Fast & Furious family of cast, crew and filmmakers. At this time we feel it is our responsibility to shut down production onFast & Furious 7 for a period of time so we can assess all options available to move forward with the franchise," the studio said.

"We are committed to keeping Fast & Furious fans informed, and we will provide further information to them when we have it. Until then, we know they join us in mourning the passing of our dear friend Paul Walker."

Walked died at the age of 40 from "combined effects of traumatic and thermal injuries" when his friend Roger Rodas lost control of his 2005 Porsch Carrera GT and slammed into a tree and light pole in California, just over a week ago.

The most popular music video of 2013 is Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball

SHE'S caused plenty of controversy this year, and now Miley Cyrus' music videos have been named the most-watched of 2013, according to music website Vevo.

The 21-year-old twerker tops Vevo's list of 2013's highest-viewed videos, withWrecking Ball landing 19.3 million on its first day of release in September and a staggering 371 million views worldwide as of December 1.

Last year's winner was Carly Rae Jepsen's hit single, Call Me Maybe, with 357 million views.

The music video website included views from syndication partner websites AOL, Yahoo!, YouTube and others.

The video has been the subject of plenty of controversy, as Cyrus appears nearly naked in parts of the clip, swinging on top of a wrecking ball in between close-ups of her tearfully singing to the camera.

Vevo noted it was "Miley's year'', as the star's promo for We Can't Stop also took the second spot, now having reached more than 310 million views.

Here are the top 10 music videos of 2013:

1) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball

2) Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop

3) Will.i.am - Scream and Shout, featuring Britney Spears

4) Rihanna - Diamonds

5) Katy Perry - Roar

6) Pink - Just Give Me a Reason, featuring Nate Ruess

7) Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines, featuring T.I. and Pharrell

8) Rihanna - Stay, featuring Mikky Ekko

9) Naughty Boy - La La La, featuring Sam Smith

10) One Direction - Kiss You

Police rescue Afghan woman from stoning

A WOMAN sentenced by the Taliban to death by public stoning was rescued by police in northern Afghanistan, a police official said.

"Taliban [judicial] commission charged a woman named Halima ... to be stoned to death for having an affair with a man in Dasht-e-Archi district three days ago," said Saeed Tabar Hussaini, a police official in northern Kunduz province.

The woman was due to be executed on Sunday evening, but police received a tip-off and arrived at the scene before the execution took place.

Taliban fled the area, the official said.

Hussaini said the man who was sentenced along with the woman had evaded arrest by the Taliban.

There have been isolated reports of stonings in Afghanistan since the ouster of the Taliban in 2001.

On Sunday, a UN report said that prosecutions and convictions of perpetrators of violence against women in Afghanistan remained low, with most cases settled by mediation.

Four dead in Indonesia train accident

AT least four people have been killed when a commuter train collided with a fuel truck near the Indonesian capital Jakarta, derailing a women-only carriage which burst into flames, officials said.

An AFP correspondent saw six people being taken to hospital in ambulances.

Both the carriage and tanker were flipped on their sides and on fire, giving off thick plumes of black smoke.

Transport ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan confirmed four people, including the train driver, had been killed.

"Other than the driver, we have not yet identified the victims," he said.

The train company estimated that around 600 passengers were on the train when it collided with the truck on the southeastern fringe of the capital, Jakarta, but most have been evacuated.

"Injured passengers have been taken to hospital by ambulance and we are coordinating with police and other agencies in the area for the evacuation," Sukendar Mulya, a spokesman for state-owned train company Kereta Api Indonesia, told AFP.

"The first and last carriages on this train were for women only, so it was the first carriage that collided with the truck," he said, adding some passengers were still trapped inside.

Mulya said the tanker was owned by state-owned company Pertamina, and that the firm was on the way to assist with the evacuation.

The truck accelerated and drove onto the tracks as the safety boom gate was coming down to halt traffic and allow the train to pass, Mulya said.

Fatal accidents are common on Indonesia's poorly maintained roads, especially on densely populated Java island.

Three years on from Japan's nuclear emergency, the fallout continues to spread

WELCOME to Fukushima, where the radiation's so bad it can be fatal within 20 minutes. The tsunami may have happened some 33 months ago, but the fallout just keeps getting worse.

Japanese media is reporting that the intensity of radiation levels in the nuclear powerplant devastated by the earthquake - and subsequent tidal waves - of March 2011 is now at its highest levels ever.

Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from around the Fukushima Daiichi plant following the disaster which sent three of its six reactors critical.

The clean-up operation is expected to take decades but in the meantime:

❒ Radiation contamination of the harbour alongside the plant is steadily rising;

❒ Another earthquake could cause a disaster 10 times worse than that experienced in Chernobyl;

❒ Traces of radioactive caesium has been found in tuna migrating across the Pacific.

On Friday, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reportedly detected the deadly radiation in a duct linking one of the damaged reactor buildings to a 120m tall ventilation pipe.

The radioactivity has been measured at 25 Sieverts (Sv) per hour. A total dose of two Sv is regarded as severe radiation poisoning. Six Sv produces a 100 per cent mortality rate after 30 days of suffering.

Japanese broadcaster NHK reported the duct had been used to divert gas buildups after the disaster. TEPCO says it may still contain radioactive substances.

It's just the latest in a long string of radiation "hotspot" revelations that have been leaking out of the information-firewall thrown up around the shattered nuclear plant since the disaster.

The uranium cores of the reactors have been close to "meltdown", with some burning through their concrete containment walls.