An Air Canada plane had an accident early Sunday as it landed at Halifax International Airport in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia, injuring 23 people. The Montreal-based airline said flight AC624 was carrying 133 passengers and five crew members when it was “involved in an incident upon landing” in Halifax at 12:43 a.m. [...]
A yearlong investigation by government scientists has concluded that a major accident at a nuclear waste dump was caused by the wrong brand of cat litter. The U.S. Department of Energy has released a 277-page report into an explosion that occurred on Feb. 14, 2014, at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. According [...]
Investigators have picked through the wreckage of two helicopters, removing mobile phones and other items, as France mourned the loss of prominent athletes in the crash in the Andean foothills. The eight French nationals and two Argentine pilots on the two aircraft were killed when they collided and burst into flames shortly after taking off [...]
Andrew Ekelem sits in a wheelchair at the bottom of the fifth-floor stairwell at Olin Hall, laptop balanced on his thighs, quick keystrokes making tiny adjustments for the exoskeleton that promises to change his life. It’s carrying a test subject up 10 stairs before the safety of a landing, one painstaking move at a time, [...]
Just three cycle lane penalties a week were imposed on motorists who parked in cycle lanes last year, Garda figures have revealed.Cyclists.ie — the Irish Cycling Advocacy Network — has described the level of enforcement and detection as “derisory” and as “a scandal”, and has called on Transport Minister Paschal Donoghue to tighten the laws [...]
A Onepoll survey asked 1000 consumers whether they believed they could make a compensation claim for a number of different accident scenarios. Out of those people only 40% of people recognised that they could claim if they sustained an injury whilst on a package holiday abroad. People go on holiday to relax, switch off and [...]
It was a case of with or without Bono last night, as U2 took to the stage for the World Aids Day (RED) Concert in New York's Times Square. The U2 frontman was unable to perform at the charity gig as he continues to recover after a cycling accident in November. But fans of the [...]
A teenager who lost an eye after being struck by a ball on a golf course has been awarded more than €240,000 after taking a High Court action. Dean Boyle, 22, from Moneymore, Drogheda, Co Louth was 15-years-old when he went with a teenage friend to play at Julianstown Golf Course in Co Meath on [...]
A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and has lived the past 10 years believing she killed her fiancé in a car accident had her conviction set aside hours after General Motors Co. confirmed the vehicle she was driving was among those recalled for a faulty ignition switch. Judge Teresa Drum cleared [...]
U2 has been forced to postpone its weeklong residency on The Tonight Show, after Bono suffered some sort of bicycle mishap in Central Park and was forced to have surgery on his. In a statement, the rest of the band say they’re “sure he’ll make a full recovery soon,” and suggest that the Tonight Show [...]