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Plane passenger from hell who was duct-taped to seat during flight warned about ‘rude awakening’ during first court appearance
Arizona realtor Arthur Layne Lundeen was duct-taped to his seat on an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Newark on 3 September after an outburst involving racial slurs and homophobic language. The pilot made an emergency landing at Baltimore-Washington International Airport in Maryland, where Lundeen was arrested and charged with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct.…
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Burnham makes emotional case for a new direction at Labour conference
Andy Burnham delivered an unusually candid and emotionally raw speech at the Labour conference in Liverpool, deliberately abandoning the cautious approach typical of senior politicians to make a personal case for national change. Rather than playing it safe with feel-good rhetoric and spending announcements, he presented his vision with unfiltered honesty, even becoming visibly emotional…
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Cat fight: Mass brawl breaks out on Greek holiday island after Brit tourist ‘kicks shopkeeper’s pet’
A British tourist allegedly kicked a shopkeeper’s cat outside a minimarket in Mykonos on Friday night, prompting people nearby to confront him. The argument escalated into a mass brawl in the island’s Fabrica area, and footage shows several men fighting on the ground as a woman is knocked over and a bystander tries to separate…
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Do you really need a travel router? Here’s what to know
A travel router connects to hotel Wi-Fi or Ethernet and creates a familiar network for your devices. It can make trips simpler when you bring several gadgets, especially streaming devices that struggle with hotel login pages, but may be unnecessary if you only use a phone and laptop. Some models also support USB tethering, mobile…
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Leaked images point to redesigned Kindle in four colours
Leaked images suggest Amazon’s next entry-level Kindle will get a modest redesign and several new colour options ahead of the holiday shopping season. The update may give existing owners a practical reason to upgrade, as the power button appears to move from the bottom to the top right edge, potentially reducing accidental presses while reading.…
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Death row execution set; trooper shot dead; Senate reforms college sports
Tennessee is set to execute death row inmate Christa Pike tomorrow after rejecting her clemency bid. A Kentucky State Police trooper was shot dead during a traffic stop, whilst the Senate has passed new college sports regulations.
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Lola is Booking.com’s new AI travel agent
Booking.com-backed Lola is a new AI travel assistant that can recommend and book hotels, restaurants, events, activities and trips through a natural-language conversation. It searches live availability and prices, compares options and can ask follow-up questions to tailor suggestions, reflecting efforts to make AI assistants handle bookings directly. Lola is free to use, while its…
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Australian democracy activist feared abducted in Cambodia before Bangkok meeting
An Australian democracy activist, Tran Hiep, has gone missing in Cambodia since 18 September and is feared to have been abducted by Vietnamese authorities in an act of alleged “transnational repression”. He was travelling with a Vietnamese-Norwegian human rights activist, Nguyen Duc Thuan, to meet with dissident Vietnamese activists when he disappeared, raising serious concerns…
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Sudden cruise itinerary change leaves some travelers upset, others celebrating ‘gigantic win’
Royal Caribbean removed Costa Maya from Icon of the Seas’ itinerary after a maintenance issue kept the ship in Miami overnight. The ship was due to leave on Saturday, 26 September, but departed on Sunday instead, replacing the port visit with a sea day; the change prompted sharply mixed reactions among passengers. A Reddit user…
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Teen volleyball star identified as victim in horror crash that left three dead in Victoria
Fourteen-year-old volleyball player Tenesha Fieldsend died after a three-vehicle crash on the Western Highway near Ledcourt in regional Victoria on Sunday. Two people in another car also died, bringing the death toll to three; police said the holiday-period crash occurred amid busy traffic as people were travelling home. Fieldsend was returning from a competition in…