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Investigators studying last week's explosion aboard Qantas Flight 30 believe a burst oxygen tank, and not a 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...
...McCain, who has a bigger hole to fill because he will collect less taxes, the spending issue is one he says he would tackle with gusto once in office. But the details of those spending cuts are mostly, once again, in the sound-bite stage. McCain has promised "comprehensive spending controls," "across-the-board scrutiny" and a bipartisan congressional commission to chop up spending. The goal, says Holtz-Eakin, is to return to the fiscal discipline of the late 1990s, when then President Bill Clinton struck a deal with a Republican Congress to limit spending increases. "People write [new spending...
...party-aligned journalist and his son were gunned down on a Phnom Penh street, and independent monitors reported problems with voter registration that prevented a significant number of people from voting. The CPP's domination of the broadcast media, particularly the country's television stations, also left a gaping hole in coverage of non-CPP parties, said Koul Panha, executive director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia. "We can say the process did not reach the fully 'free and fair' as experienced in the West. But in the Cambodian context... the process improved," he said...
...Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division] returned fire, which resulted in the vehicle running off the road and striking a wall. The vehicle then exploded," read the release. The military statement also said that "a weapon was recovered from the wreckage" and "two MND-B convoy vehicles received bullet hole damage from the small arms fire." But the Iraqi police report, which was obtained by TIME, had a different account: "Twenty-seven bullet holes [were found] on the right-hand side of [Mehdi's] car. [We] found two bullets of caliber 50 mm inside...
...boots froze instantly; food supplies were vaguely flavored lumps of ice. The Marines kept their rifles combat ready by urinating on them, and limbered their machine guns with gasoline. A sergeant in Lieut. Colonel Raymond Davis' battalion ''reached down into the snow and pulled out of a hole a solid chunk of ice that was a Chinese soldier.'' When the officer asked if the man was dead, the sergeant replied, ''No, sir, his eyes are moving.'' As Marines who were there will attest, that was often the only way to determine whether the wounded were alive, and by then...