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Forty-one dead after Russian passenger jet catches fire. There were 78 people on the plane of which 40 passengers and one crew member lost their lives. Russian passenger jet made an emergency landing at Moscow airport, trailing a gigantic plume of flame and black smoke and skidding to a stop on fire. Report

 

US sends aircraft carrier and bomber task force to 'warn Iran' BBC News

 

Cyclone Fani kills 14, injures 63 in Bangladesh on Saturday, a day after leaving a trail of destruction in neighbouring India. Read

 

Muller agrees to testify before House Judiciary Committee on May 15. News

 

More than 20 dead as violence flares between Gaza and Israel. Militants in Gaza and Israeli forces engaged in a bloody and spiralling clash over the weekend, with Palestinian factions launching hundreds of rockets towards towns and cities in Israel, which retaliated with more than 250 strikes. Continue