News 02/20/2012
A powerful gust of wind has flipped over a small plane trying to land at an airport in Puerto Rico. Authorities say the four people on board survived with only minor injuries ... Ten people remain in hospital after a coach taking a Worcestershire school party home from a skiing trip crashes in France, killing a teacher ... Mexican officials sack a prison director and many of his staff, accusing them of "treachery and collusion" over a mass breakout and a riot that left 44 dead ... Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris and Alexander Payne's The Descendants win best screenplay prizes at the Writer's Guild Awards ... Eurozone finance ministers are due to meet to decide whether Greece has done enough to merit a huge bailout loan ... South-east England is officially in a state of drought, the government confirms, as a summit is held to find ways to prevent the situation worsening ... All the latest sports stories, featuring the latest on the brawl between Dereck Chisora and David Haye ... Indian police detain two members of an Italian navy security team over last week's killing of two fishermen off the coast of Kerala ... At least three people are killed after dozens of gunmen attack a jail in the southern Philippines in a bid to free a prisoner, police say ... AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A leading Chinese newspaper accused Western countries on Monday of stirring civil war in Syria, where police and militia patrols clamped down on a district of the capital to ... |