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PALERMO (Reuters) – A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot. The 2005 crash at sea off Sicily left survivors swimming for their lives, some clinging to a piece of the fuselage that remained floating after the ATR turbo-prop aircraft splintered upon impact. A fuel-gauge malfunction was partly to blame but prosecutors also said the pilot succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land the plane instead trying to reach a nearby airport.

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TACOMA, Wash. – The Washington State Patrol said a 50-year-old Gig Harbor man accused of using a slingshot to hit Tacoma Narrows Bridge toll booth windows has been arrested

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CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian teenager wearing baggy trousers and no underwear was fined after his pants fell down just as a female police officer was walking past, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Trent Joseph Wroe, 19, was fined A$250 (119 pounds), and ordered to wear a belt, after the February 28 incident in Mooloolaba in the northern Queensland state, the Sunshine Coast Daily newspaper reported. Police told a magistrate's court that Wroe deliberately bared his buttocks, but Wroe said he was wearing a pair of borrowed pants which were too big and fell down in the wrong place at the wrong time

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RANCHI, India (Reuters) – At first glance he looks like India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, wearing only a knee-length wraparound and slippers, but Bagun Sumbarai is a seasoned politician bidding for a sixth stint in parliament. One of the oldest candidates in the general election beginning next month, Sumbarai, 85, treks for miles to woo voters and is hugely popular with the people of Singhbhum district in the eastern state of Jharkhand .

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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A video made with the help of U.S. missionaries and depicting Amazon Indians burying children alive is “faked” and inciting racial hatred, a group campaigning for tribal rights said Thursday. The short video, “Hakani,” has been watched more than 350,000 times on the YouTube video-sharing website.

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Berliners plan to topple a two kilometer-long chain of giant “dominoes” along the path of the wall that once separated communist east from the west, to mark the 20th anniversary of its fall. “We want to knock over the wall once again,” said Klaus Wowereit , mayor of Berlin.

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