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  • Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland

    A flight from Melbourne to Qatar was diverted to India on Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to save an Irish man on board. The man, Raymond McMorrow, 68, is believed to have had a heart attack on board Qatar Airways flight QR 031 while in transit from Melbourne to Doha, the Qatar capital. The Qatar Airways plane landed without incident at Cochin Airport, in southern India, where an ...

  • Pakistani plane forced to land near London two held

    Britain had to scramble fighter jets Friday to escort a Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) plane down to land after it was diverted from Manchester. Later, two people were arrested from aboard the aircraft on suspicion of endangering the flight. The Royal Air Force Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort the passenger plane, originally heading from Pakistan's Lahore city to Britain's ...

  • Two held over Pakistani planes mid-air alert

    Britain had to scramble fighter jets Friday for escorting a Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) plane after it was diverted from Manchester. Later, two people were arrested on suspicion of endangering the aircraft's flight. The Royal Air Force Typhoon jets were scrambled to escort the passenger plane, originally heading from Pakistan's Lahore city to Britain's Manchester city. Police ...

  • Britain sends up fighters as Pakistani plane diverted

    Britain had to scramble fighter jets Friday for escorting a Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) plane after it was diverted from Manchester. The PIA plane was diverted from Manchester to Stansted airport, reported BBC, citing a Manchester airport spokesperson Friday. The plane, flight number PK709, carrying 297 passengers, had reportedly left Lahore at 09.35 a.m. and was due in at ...

  • QA Finding the Spa Experience for You

    A. A destination spa, you usually go to by yourself, though not always, and usually for a minimum of seven nights. The results can be profound, physically and mentally. My personal ...


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Movie Review

Buffalo '66

Buffalo '66

Vincent Gallo's "Buffalo '66" is a haunting, comical nightmare of narcissism, pent-up rage, and maddening loneliness--and, yet, it has a happy ending. It is a film that resists simple description, mostly because it is constructed of so many ill-fitting pieces that it has a kind of insane consistency all its own. "Buffalo '66" presents life--or, at least, the life of its gaunt, oddball protagonist, ... ...

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  • Footsteps In Pennsylvania Exploring Wyeth’s World

    The house in which the artist grew up -- a red brick building that his father, the illustrator N. C. Wyeth, built for the family in 1911 -- is down the road from Andrew Wyeth's own prim, white clapboard and stucco house and studio, which the Brandywine River Museum opened to the public last summer. And just over the hill, perhaps a 20-minute walk down private back roads, is the farmhouse ...

  • Pursuits Hunting the Bounty of Turkish Markets

    I was traveling the region having been inspired by a cookbook, "Aegean Flavours," written by Didem Senol, a New York-trained Turkish chef whose penchant for cooking in season is on display at her Istanbul restaurant, Lokanta Maya, and her tiny cafe there, Gram. Many of the book's recipes are informed by the time Ms. Senol spent heading the kitchen at her father's hotel, the ...

  • Slow Travel Walking in Wales

    My idea of heaven is a long walk. Aimless hours pass, thoughts drift. I was never ambitious about how many miles I covered -- until I read a biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. He loved to walk, too, and thought nothing of walking to a town hundreds of miles away to try a new organ, or to look for a new job. He walked for weeks -- months, even -- humming to himself, I hope. I wondered why I ...

  • Taking a Walk Where Wales Meets the Sea

    For the May 26, 2013, issue of the Travel section, Dominique Browning wrote about a five-day walk she made along the coast of Wales. Here are photos of places in and around her ...

  • Watch 2 Arrests in Pakistan Airlines Flight Scare

    Fighter jets scrambled in Britain today after an incident on a plane but officials say it is not terror related -- royal air force jet escorted to Pakistan International Airlines plane to ...

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