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Harrison Ford crashes his plane for third time –
US actor Harrison Ford has been injured in a small plane crash in Los Angeles. The 72-year-old, star of the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films, reported engine failure and crash-landed his vintage plane on a Venice golf course. He was breathing and alert when medics arrived and took him to hospital in a “fair to moderate” condition, a fire department spokesman said. His son Ben, a chef in Los Angeles, later tweeted from the hospital: “Dad is OK. Battered but OK! [BBC]
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Delta Aircraft slides off New York runway –
A passenger airliner has skidded off the runway at LaGuardia airport in New York City, as a major winter storm bears down on a large part of the US. Emergency officials helped 127 passengers and five crew off the plane just after 11:00 local time (16:00 GMT), but no one was seriously injured. Snow and freezing rain has been falling from Texas to New England over the past several hours. The flight, Delta 1086, was attempting to land at LaGuardia after flying from Atlanta. It veered to the left shortly after making contact with the runway, but avoided crashing into nearby Flushing Bay. [BBC]
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20 most important Harrison Ford movies (according to The Daily Telegraph)
- American Graffiti (1973)
- The Conversation (1974)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Witness (1985)
- Mosquito Coast (1986)
- Frantic (1988)
- Working Girl (1988)
- Presumed Innocent (1990)
- Patriot Games (1990)
- The Fugitive (1993)
- Clear and Present Danger (1994)
- Sabrina (1995)
- Air Force One (1997)
- What Lies Beneath (2000)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
- 42 (2013)
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- A knife-wielding assailant injures the American ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, in the South Korean capital city of Seoul. Authorities report that the injuries on his face and wrist are not life-threatening. (Yonhap News) (BBC)
- Iraqi insurgency (2011–present)
- Hong Kong-based luxury hotel chain Mandarin Oriental confirms that credit card data has been stolen in a hack attack on the company’s network. (BBC)
- Arts and culture
- The Indian government censors the documentary India’s Daughter depicting a December 2012 gang rape and murderdue to perceived incitement to violence that the outrage about the film might cause. Nevertheless, the BBC telecasts the film. (Daily Mail) (The Times of India)
- The American Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the inclusion of elephants in their performances by 2018. (AP)
- Business and economy
- American pharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc buys leukemia drugmaker Pharmacyclics Inc for $21 billion. (AP)
- A New York state appellate court in Manhattan rules to approve in its entirety the 2011 settlement by Bank of Americawith 22 institutional investors including BlackRock Inc, MetLife Inc, and Allianz SE’s Pacific Investment Management Co to resolve claims over $174 billion of mortgage securities issued by the former Countrywide Financial Corp. in a $8.5 billion settlement. (Reuters)
- Dublin-based generic drugmaker, specialty drug supplier, and medical imaging agent producer Mallinckrodt Plc increases its presence in U.S. hospitals by buying privately held Ikaria Inc, a maker of a respiratory drug and its delivery system, for $2.3 billion from a group of investors led by private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners LLC. The deal includes INOmax, which is the only approved product to treat hypoxic respiratory failure in infants through nitric oxide.(Reuters)
- Energy-rich Kazakhstan suspends Russian fuel and gas imports to protect its domestic market from a surplus due to a weakened ruble which has sent ripples of economic uncertainty through Central Asia. (The Times of Central Asia)
- Disasters and accidents
- Tanzanian flooding kills 42 people near Lake Victoria in the Kahama District. (AP)
- A Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas MD-88 aircraft attempting to complete a snowing landing, veers to the left side off of a recently-plowed runway, thereby missing the end of runway emergency arresting device, and skids onto the edge of water embankment at LaGuardia Airport, New York, United States. (The Aviation Herald)(AP)
- American actor Harrison Ford is in stable condition after he crash-lands his 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR single-engine World War II-era training plane at the Penmar Golf Course, in Venice, Los Angeles, California, just west of theSanta Monica Airport. (AP via MSN) (CNN)
- Health
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
- Liberia‘s last known ebola patient is discharged from a treatment center in Monrovia. The country now needs 42 days without a subsequent diagnosed infection to be declared disease free. (The New York Times)
- Law and crime
- The manufacturer of a medical instrument for endoscopic procedures, Olympus Corp, lacked US FDA clearance to sell the current version when it caused an outbreak of infections, including two deaths, from an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria, “superbug” Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centerbetween October 2014 and January 2015 (see February 19). (AP)
- A Phoenix, Arizona jury deadlocks in a second trial allowing convicted murderer American Jodi Arias to be spared the death penalty. She will be sent to prison for life for killing her lover in 2008. (AP)
- The U.S. Supreme Court schedules oral arguments for hearing cases regarding the bans by states of gay marriage on April 28, 2015. (Reuters via MSN)
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