Word: fatale
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...bomb, was responsible for the blast and forced emergency landing in Manila. The explosion ripped a 9-foot hole through the side of a Qantas Boeing 747 - and an even bigger hole in the airline's reputation. In its 88-year history, the Australian carrier has had no fatal accidents and only three previous "major safety events." But that record ensures that even small incidents make headlines. Since 2006 there have been a growing list of such relatively minor mishaps: burst tires, a burning engine, a fallen engine panel, an aborted takeoff, a forced switch to battery power...
...fierce July sun. A verdict in a landmark case to shut down the government for alleged Islamism is expected by next week, and a prosecutor recently alleged that a powerful cabal of nationalist hit men has plotted to bring the country's institutions to a fall. So when two fatal bombs ripped through a working-class Istanbul neighborhood on Sunday night, killing 17 and injuring another 150, the already palpable tension in Turkey went up another few notches...
...does have a way of bouncing back from the brink. But in the midst of a global economic crunch, as conflict brews between neighboring Iran and the West, it has squandered valuable time and credibility on an essentially internecine dispute. Sunday's bombings are at the very least a fatal reminder of how high the stakes...
...white-turbaned man, his face shrouded in white cloth, dressed in military fatigues and flanked by two similarly uniformed comrades whose identities are hidden by black commando face masks. In the video, a previously little known group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party claims it carried out several fatal bombings in the country in recent months. The group's self-described military commander, Seyfullah, said it was responsible for incidents in Shanghai in early May and in the southern city of Kunming on July 21 that killed a total of five people. He also said the group had bombed...
...infant as a candidate for transplant. The hospital had apparently concluded that Jesse's young, unwed parents--Deana Binkley, 17, and Jesse Sepulveda, 26, of Pasadena--were incapable of providing him with the exhaustive care he would require after surgery. The infant had been born with a rare, fatal condition called hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, in which the heart's main pumping chamber is improperly developed. Without a transplant at Loma Linda, the only institution in the area that performs such surgery on infants, doctors said Jesse would die in a matter of weeks. The impending tragedy had the makings...