Scotland Helicopter Crash

Scotland Helicopter Crash, At least one person was killed and 32 injured when a police helicopter crashed into the roof of a packed Glasgow pub, trapping many inside in choking dust and debris.

The death toll is expected to rise, Scottish police said.

Witnesses said the helicopter dropped from the sky like a stone onto the busy Clutha Pub in Scotland’s biggest city at 10:25 p.m. on Friday night as over 100 people listened to a live music concert.

More than 10 hours later, emergency workers were still searching through the rubble for survivors in the shadow of the mangled blue helicopter, which was embedded in the pub’s roof.

“Sadly at this time I can confirm one fatality. We expect that number to increase over the coming hours,” Chief Constable of Police Scotland Stephen House told reporters, adding 32 people had been taken to hospital.

There were three people aboard the helicopter, two police officers and a civilian pilot, when it crashed.

As dawn broke, expert rescue teams and firefighters were laboring to make the pub safe and free anyone still under the rubble. Earlier, rescuers said they had spoken to people trapped under debris.

Kohl’s Shooting

Kohl’s Shooting, A suburban Chicago police officer has been released from hospital after being dragged by a car driven by fleeing Thanksgiving Day shoplifting suspects, one of which was charged with attempted murder Friday.

Another police officer fired at the 52-year-old driver, who remained hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his arm following the Thursday night incident at a Kohl’s department store in Romeoville, the Romeoville Police Department said in a statement. The suburb is about 30 miles southwest of Chicago.

The store reported suspected shoplifters to police just after 10 p.m. Thursday. As a patrol car approached the store, one suspect bolted out of a door, jumped into a waiting car and closed the door on the pursuing officer’s arm. The driver then drove off – hauling the officer with him.

Switched at Birth Lawsuit

Switched at Birth Lawsuit, A Japanese court ordered a hospital on Tuesday to pay 38 million yen ($373,977) in damages to a man who was switched at birth and suffered hardship in his life as a result.

The man had been given to the wrong family upon birth at the hospital in 1953.

He lost his non-biological father at the age of two, studied at night school while working in a factory and ended up employed by a transport company, the Tokyo district court said in a ruling quoted by Kyodo News.

The other man involved in the switch went on to university.

But his three younger brothers felt he did not look like them and confirmed through DNA testing in 2009 that they were not related, the news agency said.

After checked the hospital records they discovered who their real older brother was in 2012.

The three, together with the genuine older brother, sued the hospital for 250 million yen.

Judge Masatoshi Miyasaka cut the size of the award but said he recognised the plaintiff had lost a chance of higher education and had suffered emotional pain.

Lewis Collins Dies

Lewis Collins Dies, Lewis Collins, the actor best known for his role as tough guy Bodie in TV classic The Professionals, has died in the US after a long battle with cancer. He was 67.

The actor’s agent said: “He died peacefully at his LA home surrounded by his family. Privacy is asked for at this very sad time.”

Paying tribute, Lewis Collins’s Professionals co-star Martin Shaw said: “I was very sad to hear today that Lewis has died. We spent a very tough four years together in making The Professionals, and shared in the production of what has become an icon of British Television.”

Shaw continued: “He will be remembered as part of the childhood of so many people, and mourned by his fans. I send my love and condolences to his family, and the great many who will miss him.”

Thailand Anti-Government Protests, November 2013

Thailand Anti-Government Protests, November 2013, Anti-government protesters briefly forced their way into the compound of Thailand’s army headquarters on Friday in a dramatic escalation of city-wide demonstrations seeking to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

Protesters burst into the army base Bangkok’s historic quarter, waving flags and blowing whistles. In another district, about 1,000 people massed outside Yingluck’s ruling party headquarters, shouting “get out”.

The invasion of army headquarters deepened a conflict broadly pitting the urban middle class against the mostly rural supporters of Yingluck and her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister who was ousted in a 2006 coup and who remains central to Thailand’s eight years of on-off turmoil.

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