98 m. ago United Airlines passenger with 'biohazard diarrhoea' admits mistake as flights cancelled

Meghan Reinersten has apologised after her severe episode cancelled a United Airlines flight as specialists were called to clear up her mess.

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63 h. ago Woman apologises for 'severe diarrhoea' that forced flight to be cancelled

Meghan Reinertsen was being flown back to the US from Portugal, and suffered from severe diarrhoea that was so bad that it caused the entire flight to be cancelled.

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65 h. ago Woman apologises as her ‘severe diarrhoea’ forces entire flight to be cancelled

Unfortunate passenger and TikTok star Meghan Reinertsen had such bad diarrhoea and sickness on a United Airlines flight that the plane had to be grounded and specialists called in

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3 d. ago Woman apologises after severe diarrhoea ends up cancelling entire flight

Hundreds of passengers were told they were not able to travel after a woman had a violent bout of diarrhoea, leaving people to take to social media to vent their frustrations

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1 week ago Huge 8.8 magnitude earthquake 'damages Russian nuclear sub base'

The Rybachiy base, which hosts nuclear-powered submarines from Russia’s Pacific Fleet, is around 80 miles from where the powerful earthquake that struck last week

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1 week ago Passengers in 'sheer panic' after holiday flight severely damaged by huge bird

Passengers suffered oxygen shortages after a serious bird strike left the plane filled with smoke with the front of the craft seriously damaged. One woman said she 'couldn't breathe' as the chaos unfolded

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1 week ago World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the LancetPlastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (£1.1tn) a year in health-related damages.The driver of the crisis is a huge acceleration of plastic production, which has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and is set to almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060. While plastic has many important uses, the most rapid increase has been in the production of single-use plastics, such as drinks bottles and fast-food containers. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Terrifying pictures show huge damage to front of Airbus which was hit by a bird strike after taking off from Spanish airport

An Airbus plane has been grounded after suffering massive damage as it was hit by a bird while taking off from a Spanish airport. 

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