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Helen Regan, Lex Harvey, Manveena Suri and Esha Mitra for CNN Air India Airbus A350-900 aircraft. Photo: AFP / NICOLAS ECONOMOU Twin bomb threats have hit Indian airliners on opposite sides of the globe, forcing an emergency landing in the Arctic and fighter jets to scramble in Asia - the latest in a series of similar hoax scares for the country's airlines. Indian airlines have faced "a number of threats in recent days," all of which have been found to be hoaxes, flag carrier Air India said in a statement, as authorities in New Delhi and around the world investigate the string of false bomb warnings. An Air India flight from New Delhi to Chicago made an emergency landing in Iqaluit, Canada's northernmost city. All 211 passengers and crew were relocated to the airport, Canadian police...

By Luke Goodsell, ABC Entertainment Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, and Riley Keough attend the Handprint Ceremony at TCL Chinese Theatre on 21 June, 2022 in Hollywood, California. Photo: Jon Kopaloff / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP For years after rock 'n' roll titan Elvis Presley died, his daughter Lisa Marie said her father would appear in her dreams - her, curled up in the hamburger-shaped bed she loved as a child, him sitting beside her in astral conversation. "I don't really believe they were dreams," Presley writes in her newly released posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown. "I believe they were visitations." When Lisa Marie Presley died at age 54 in January 2023, it was almost as though some dark destiny had been fulfilled - the child of...

Australia Defence Minister Richard Marles says the government will make an initial investment of A$127 million over three years. File picture. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Australia says it will invest billions of dollars over the next two decades to expand a shipyard in Western Australia that will become the maintenance hub for its nuclear-powered AUKUS submarine fleet. The government will make an initial investment of A$127 million over three years to upgrade facilities at the Henderson shipyard near Perth, Defence Minister Richard Marles said in a statement. "The Defence Precinct at Henderson will optimise Australia's shipbuilding and sustainment industry while supporting continuous naval shipbuilding in Western Australia and Australia's nuclear-powered submarine pathway," Marles sa...

By Jack Queen for Reuters People sign in to cast their votes on the first day of early voting at East Point First Mallalieu United Methodist Church on October 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Getty Images / AFP / Megan Varner A Georgia judge on Tuesday temporarily halted a new rule requiring a labour-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in the US presidential election. The hand-count rule was passed on 20 September by a pro-Trump conservative majority of Georgia's Republican-controlled election board who say they are attempting to make the 5 November election more secure and transparent. Georgia, where early voting began on Tuesday, is one of seven states likely to determine the contest between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic o...