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Flight 523 from New York had just touched down and passengers were applauding the pilot's landing in the South American country Saturday when something suddenly went wrong.The Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of a rainy runway, crashed through a chain-link fence and broke in half just short of a deep ravine. Yet all 163 people on board survived.Officials were starting to probe the cause of the crash even as they marveled at the lack of fatalities.(See how to survive a plane crash.)"We must be the luckiest country and luckiest set of people...

BBC   Norway has been hit by twin attacks - a massive bomb blast in the capital and a shooting attack on young people at a governing Labour Party youth camp.At least seven people were killed in the bombing, which inflicted huge damage on government buildings in Oslo.At least 10 more died at the camp, on an island outside Oslo, police say. One witness said he had seen 20 bodies.The suspected gunman was arrested at the camp and the government have confirmed that he is Norwegian.Police have said that he is also linked with the...

MUMBAI: Three near-simultaneous explosions rocked Mumbai at rush-hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in what the government said appeared to be another terrorist strike in the city hit by a major attack nearly three years ago. Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said the latest attack killed 20 people, and home minister P Chidambaram said the toll was likely to rise. Television footage showed dozens of police officials, several of them armed, at the sites of the explosion and at least one car with...

 ITAHARI: Rain-fed rivers continue to wreak havoc in Sunsari district, causing displacement of hundreds of people. As a swollen Sunsari river gushed into Bhokraha and Inaruwa yesterday, some 130 households fled to safety. Now, they are taking shelter at the local Gyanodaya Primary School, according to police.Incessant rains have inundated most of the houses in ward numbers 6, 7 and 9 of the municipality, while a rain-swollen Tengra, after breaching a dyke, has swept away a house belonging to a squatter’s family and caused...