BREAKING NEWS: Mozambique plane missing with 34 on board

 

A Mozambique Airlines (LAM) plane with 28 passengers and 6 crew on board has gone missing on a flight to Angola, say airline officials.

Flight TM470 left Mozambique's capital, Maputo, at 11:26 local time (09:26 GMT) and was due to arrive in the Angolan capital, Luanda, at 14:10.

The last contact made with the plane was when it was over northern Namibia.

The airline said there were signs it might have landed near Rundo, northern Namibia, bordering Angola and Botswana.

"LAM airlines, aeronautical and airport authorities are trying to establish contact to confirm the information," said the airline.

Spokesman Norberto Mucopa told the AFP news agency he could not confirm the nationalities of those on board.

More info to follow....

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PHOTOS: Underwater hotel opens in Tanzania, Africa

The room is located 250m from shore in the Indian Ocean

Guests can soak up the sun on a rooftop deck

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Night falls

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Spotlights illuminate the sea life that swims by

(Photographer Anhede)

Frequent visitors include a trumpet fish known as Nick

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The room immerses guests 4m below the surface

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Clear waters and open space

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The underwater room at the Manta Resort

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Joining a list of other experimental under-the-sea hotel rooms in Florida, Sweden and the Maldives, the underwater room at Manta Resort on remote Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar Archipelago immerses guests 4m below the surface. The room sits on the bottom of a three-level floating structure, located 250m from shore in the Indian Ocean.


Above and below each of the room’s eight windows, spotlights illuminate the sea life that swims by. Frequent visitors include a trumpet fish known as Nick, as well as squid and octopus at night. Above the underwater space, guests can climb a ladder to the water level, which contains a bathroom and lounge, or ascend to the rooftop to soak up the sun or lay beneath the stars.


The floating structure was designed by Swedish artist Mikael Genberg, who also constructed the structurally similar Utter Inn in Sweden’s Lake Malaren. For this project, he sought a more remote location with clearer waters, and found it off Pemba’s coast in the form of “the blue hole”, a circular clearing within the coral reef, measuring about 50m in diameter. The open space made it the ideal location to anchor the new underwater structure.


The room officially opened for guests on 1 November. Since Manta Resort has only one underwater space within the now 17-room resort, single nights in the room can be added to an existing stay for $1,500 per night.

 

*Nice! Isn't it?

 

 

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GERMANY: 'Cannibal' Police officer arrested after allegedly killing and eating man he met on cannibalism website

• The victim, 59, had “fantasised about being murdered and eaten by someone else since his youth”

The house where police believe the suspect ate a portion of his victim

A detective has been arrested over a gruesome ‘cannibal’ murder after the hacked-up body of a man he met on the internet was found in his garden.

The suspect, 55, has admitted murdering his victim after the pair chatted online on a dark website for people obsessed with cannibalism, German police said today.

The victim, 59, had “fantasised about being murdered and eaten by someone else since his youth,” Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll said.

When the business consultant, from Hanover, went missing, police began a search and weeks later tracked his path using his communications with the suspected killer.

The pair met on November 4 and within hours the victim was dead, police said.

Dresden head of criminal investigations Maik Mainda said: “They did not know each other personally until then.”

The two men met at Dresden railway station, east Germany, and drove to the suspect’s house in the town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau.

When police caught up with the suspect on Wednesday, he admitted slashing the victim’s throat, officers said.

Mainda said: “The agreement was that the killing should take place immediately. The suspect then used a knife to cause a life-threatening wound on the throat of the victim, which led to his death.

“The suspect has told us that he then cut the victim into separate pieces, including many very small pieces, and that he also cut through bones. The suspect then buried the body parts on the sloping lawn of his property.”

Killer and victim had extensive email, text and telephone contact since October to arrange their fatal date.

Detectives believe the suspect, a handwriting analysis expert, spent five hours torturing the victim before dismembering his body and burying him.

They are now probing whether he ate parts of the body before putting them in the ground.

The case echoes that of Armin Meiwes, dubbed the “Cannibal of Rothenburg”, who, in 2001, killed and ate a man who had advertised on the internet for someone to kill him “and leave no trace”.

Meiwes filmed the killing and was jailed for life in 2006.

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BLACK FRIDAY PHOTOS: Desperate shoppers BRAWL in the aisles to get their hands on bargain discounts ....chaos and arrests as customers fight for bargains in UK

• Male shopper arrested following a row at Asda store in Bristol this morning
• Trouble flared up when man, 35, was told he couldn't buy two 60-inch TVs
• Frenzied shoppers across the country clear shelves within minutes
• Televisions, DVD players, phones and tablets discounted by up to 70%
• 'They were like locusts. It was madness,' one witness said
• 'It was like a pack of savages looking for a bargain,' said another

  

Frenzy: Hundreds of shoppers grab for cut price electrical bargains at an Asda superstore in Benton, North Tyneside this morning, where the shelves were cleared within a minute

Grab: Crowds of bargain hunters waited outside the store from around 6am - with the event starting at 8am

Good buy: Tablets were selling for just £49 and Samsung phones for £99 at the event

 

 

 

 

 

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Disgraced doctor, Conrad Murray faces lawsuit after stating he shared an intimate relationship with Michael Jackson

The Michael Jackson estate has threatened to sue disgraced doctor Conrad Murray over claims that he held the late pop star's penis every night.

Murray's claims that he "held Michael Jackson's penis every night" sparked MJ Estate lawyer Howard Weitzman to send a 'cease and desist' letter to Murray earlier this week.

He wrote: "Your recent comments to the media about Mr. Jackson’s medical treatment and ultimate death shamefully violate the physician-patient privilege under California law."

In the letter, he also commented that Murray was a coward to attempting to use the media to defend himself, rather than testifying in court during his manslaughter trial.

Weitzman has stated that is Murray continues to talk, the Estate will file suit.

Intimate claims: Murray stated that he 'held' Michael Jackson's penis
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They will also subsequently inform any medical board that Murray attempts to gain a medical licence with, that he violated the doctor and patient confidentiality.

Meanwhile, Murray may testify in a $30 million lawsuit accusing Michael Jackson of child molestation.

He may be asked to give evidence in choreographer Wade Robson's lawsuit against the pop icon's estate, stating that he was sexually abused by the star during the 1990s.

This news was revealed after Murray gave several interviews Australia's 60 Minutes programme, in which he refused to comment on whether he thought the child molestation rumours were true.

He said: "I'm not prepared to answer that question, not now. And I tell you the reason why - because my interview with you is candid and honest, and I will not make up or fabricate anything."

Murray has insisted that he did not kill the King of Pop, although he was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to four years in prison.


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