14 h. ago Tourists describe panic on board Boeing jet as engine exploded moments after take

Flight DE3655 to Dusseldorf from Corfu was carrying 273 passengers and eight crew when it took to the skies on Saturday, before making an emergency landing in Brindisi, Italy.

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35 h. ago Moment Boeing passenger jet's engine catches fire prompting emergency landing moments after take off from Corfu

Terrifying footage of the incident on the DE3665 flight to Dussledorf, carrying 273 passengers and eight crew, saw the plane's engine burst into flames as it took to the skies on Saturday.

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38 h. ago Terrifying moment hair dryer EXPLODES in woman's hand at salon

This is the moment a woman was given a shock after a hair dryer exploded into a fire ball in her hand whilst sat in a salon chair.

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4 d. ago China unveils tech breakthrough that 'makes EVERY warship an aircraft carrier'

Aerospace engineers in the East Asian superpower have developed what is believed to be the world's first high-speed vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone powered by a jet engine.

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5 d. ago Tourists abandon Greece's most popular islands sparking panic

The number of visitors to the country's most iconic islands has noticeably dropped in 2025.

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6 d. ago Moment 'road rage' row explodes into violence in broad daylight as woman is put into a headlock during melee

Footage posted online shows a driver in a pink T-shirt clashing with three women after stopping his car in the middle of the road.

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1 week ago Great Eastern Hotel by Ruchir Joshi review – a panoramic view of India in flux

The political and emotional journey of a young communist revolutionary is brought sensuously to life, in a magnificent epic that took 25 years to writeThe observation by architect Louis Kahn that you “can only really see a building once the building becomes a ruin” runs through this book like the Hooghly river through India’s former capital. There’s no better Indian ruin than Kolkata, a city that still clings to the centrality of its role in the 19th-century intellectual renaissance that buttressed the case for Indian self-rule. The adage back then was that “what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow”.Great Eastern Hotel, the second novel from the author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, is 920 pages and well over 300,000 words long. The staff of your local Waterstones will kindly describe it as “an undertaking”. It is set in and around the still-standing, now eye-wateringly expensive Great Eastern Hotel, which is, as the book points out, a model for the city itself: a place t...

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2 w. ago Moment that Russian volcano explodes for first time in 600 years in dramatic eruption

The Krasheninnikov Volcano erupted overnight in the Kamchatka Peninsula, which was the epicentre of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that triggered tsunami warnings on Wednesday.

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