Verona - A German UEFA sport reporter was late. Too late. At the Verona Airport he had to make a flight which was to take him to Vienna. As ground personnel told the man that he could no longer board the aircraft he had an irrational - and criminal - idea.
As reported by the Italian media, he called the police and reported that there was a bomb in the aircraft. As a result the airport needed to be closed for several hours as the authorities checked the aircraft.
However, the reporter was impatient and made an error. Shortly after his anonymous call, he went to the gate and said that he had heard that the aircraft was not yet cleared for takeoff. This had not yet been reported in the airport information boards. The cell phone ultimately revealed that the German was the caller, and the Police arrested him.
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Obama deploys to Iowa to help fill sandbags. Meanwhile, "W" eats cake with the Queen. Republicans, we never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Also, little mention on the MSM of the almost total lack of looting and no mention at all of the thousands of young college and high school students pitching in to fill sandbags and save their schools.
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Excellent point CrazyFool. Maybe the administration is waiting on the hundreds of volunteers and tons of relief supplies that will soon arrive from New Orleans.
Twenty-three people have died in the past five years after a routine flu jab.
23 people have died from heart attacks, blood infections and pneumonia after having routine flu jabs
Official figures show that a further 123 people given the winter vaccine suffered a suspected reaction so severe they were taken to hospital.
Causes of death included heart attacks, blood infections and pneumonia, while asthma and kidney failure were among reported side-effects.
The statistics, revealed by Health Minister Dawn Primarolo, raise fears over the safety of the vaccine, which is taken by eight million people in Britain every year.
Government policy is to offer the jabs to everyone over 65 and those with existing conditions that could be worsened by flu.
Experts say the deaths could be coincidental and no direct link to the injection has been established.
But there are now calls for further research to identify whether some people could be put in danger by having the jab.
Ms Primarolo insisted the flu vaccine was safe and added: The balance of benefits to risks remains overwhelmingly positive.
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146 in the last five years out of 8,000,000 per year is less than four ten-thousandths of a percent(0.00037%), a vanishingly small percentage it seems to me, especially given the weighting of that population toward advanced age and fragile health. But then, I'm neither a statistician nor an epidemiologist, so perhaps I shouldn't venture an opinion.
Religious services were held in cathedrals and churches in Budyonnovsk from the early morning on Saturday in commemoration of victims of the attack committed by Shamil Basayev's armed group of terrorists against the city. Hundreds of residents, relatives of victims and participants of those tragic events attended mourning meetings near the city police building and in the memorial garden near the city hospital. Years have passed since the terrible tragedy, but the pain for the innocent people killed by bandits does not ease off, Mayor Alexander Yurchenko said.
A minutes silence was observed at 12:20 Moscow time, when the bandit attack began. Delegations from other cities arrived in Budyonnovsk for the commemoration events.
The terrorist attack against Budyonnovsk was one of the most tragic in the history. On June 14, 1995, bandits led by Basayev got into the city under the guise of an army unit. They went in big Kamaz trucks about 600 kilometres from Chechnya to Budyonnovsk. During the six days of their outrage in the city, they killed 129 civilians, policemen and servicemen. Other 18 innocent people later died of wounds. The centre of the tragic events was the city's central hospital. Basayev's gunmen drove more than 1,800 people from city streets into the main hospital building that has space for only 250 patients. The bandits held the people as hostages there, and among the hostages were hospital patients and personnel, women giving birth and newborn babies.
After leaving the city and returning back to Chechnya, many of the terrorists participated then in combat actions against federal forces and were killed. Nineteen bandits were found by law-enforcement services and are serving long imprisonment terms to which they were sentenced by the Stavropol territorial court.
A row in India's richest family could derail a $70bn (£36bn;45bn euros) merger between India's Reliance Communications and South Africa's MTN. Chairman of Reliance Communications Anil Ambani has hit out at his elder brother Mukesh Ambani for interfering in merger talks between RC and MTN.
The two companies have been in merger talks since May. A deal would create one of the 10 largest telecoms firms. At issue, however, is the corporate structure this deal would take. There have been suggestions that Anil Ambani would sell a stake in Reliance Communications to South Africa's MTN. But his elder brother Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, says he has the first right to buy a stake in his younger brother's firm.
According to a statement released by Reliance Communications, the group says that Mukesh Ambani's claim is "legally and factually untenable". The two brothers inherited their multi-billion dollar conglomerates from their father, Dhirubhai Ambani, who died in 2002. The late Mr Ambani left no will, so the business was divided by their mother, Mrs Kokilaben Ambani, after it became obvious the two brothers would not be able to run the sprawling company together.
Since then the two brothers have repeatedly tried to outdo each other in the Indian corporate world. Indian media has often compared their tale to a Bollywood film - and the Ambani brothers are many times affectionately referred to in India as the squabbling siblings. They've often competed for the same financial deals, but have never publicly interfered in each other's businesses until now.
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Reminds me of the "WILLY versus NICKY" Letters, etc. ala WW1 + QUEEN VICTORIA.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Bomb Threat lands sports reporter in the hoosgal!
