Algeria airliner feared crashed on flight from Burkina Faso!

Update on the passenger plane carrying 118 people:

The plane is feared to have crashed on a flight from Burkina Faso to the Algerian capital Algiers.

According to reports from officials, contact with the Air Algerie flight was lost over the Sahara as it crossed Mali in bad weather.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the plane, which has 51 French citizens aboard, "probably crashed".

There have been reports of wreckage being found by French military drone spotted the wreckage from the air, located at the edge of the desert, but they are in locations up to 400km (250 miles) apart. 



The plane reportedly crashed in one piece rather than breaking up in the air. 

Contact with Flight AH 5017, which was reportedly chartered from Spanish airline Swiftair, was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, Air Algerie said.

The pilot had contacted Niger's control tower in Niamey to change course because of a sandstorm, officials say. Cause of the crash due to bad whether.

There were 118 passengers from different nationalities among whom are 51 French citizens. One of the black boxes recovered so far.

Emir of Kano visits President Jonathan!

Northern Traditional Rulers including the Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, led by the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, came to break the Ramadan fast with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa- State House- Abuja on Wednesday.

India doctors remove 232 teeth from boy's mouth!

Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation.

Dr Sunanda Dhiware head of Mumbai's JJ Hospital's dental department, told the BBC that the teenager Ashik Gavai, was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw. After he had been suffering for 18 months and traveled to the city from his village after local doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem.

"Ashik's malaise was diagnosed as a complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. It's a sort of benign tumour," Dr Dhiware said.

"At first, we couldn't cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out.

"Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. We counted 232 teeth," she added.

The surgery, conducted on Monday, involved two surgeons and two assistants. The team was led by Dr Vandana Thorawade who heads the hospital's ENT (ear, nose and throat) department. Ashik now has 28 teeth.

Describing Ashik's case as "very rare", Dr Dhiware said she had "not seen anything like this before in my 30-year career", but said she was "thrilled to get such an exciting case".

"According to medical literature available on the condition, it is known to affect the upper jaw and a maximum of 37 teeth have been extracted from the tumour in the past. But in Ashik's case, the tumour was found deep in the lower jaw and it had hundreds of teeth."

Ashik's father Suresh Gavai was quoted by the Mumbai Mirror as saying that his son complained of severe pain a month ago.

"I was worried that it may turn out to be cancer so I brought him to Mumbai," he said.

Sudanese 'apostasy' woman arrives Rome en route New-York!

The Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim, who was condemned to death for converting from Islam to Christianity, reportedly arrived in Rome with her family on Thursday morning where they will stay for a few days before flying to New York.

According to reports, the 27-year-old, her husband and two children arrived at Rome's Ciampino airport at around 9.30am on a plane provided by the Italian government. 

Meriam was greeted at the airport by Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, his wife Agnese and Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini.

She was accompanied on the flight by Italy’s Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli, who met with her on July 3rd and has been following the case closely.

Her stay in Italian was organized by the Italian government in collaboration with the Sudanese government. 

Ibrahim's arrival in the Italian capital follows a European Parliament resolution condemning her “degrading and inhumane treatment” and calling for legal reforms in Sudan. 

A spokesperson for the Italian government was reportedly not immediately available for comment.

BREAKING - AIR ALGERIE PLANE DISAPPEARS FROM RADAR!

The Algerian news agency says an Air Algerie flight with 110 people nd 6 crew on-board, from Ouagadougou -Burkina Faso to Algiers has disappeared from the radar.

Information made available said air navigation services lost track of the plane 50 minutes after takeoff early Thursday, last sited at 0155 GMT.

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Police IG MD Abubakar and Wife welcome baby boy!

The Inspector General of Police, MD Abubakar and wife, Zarah had their first child recently.

The bouncing baby boy was delivered in Atlanta, USA and the excited father will leave Nigeria today to be re-united with his wife and the new baby.

The couple got married September 13, 2013 after the IGP lost his first wife, Maryam Abubakar to cancer in January, 2012.

Congratulations

TERROR THREAT AGAINST NORWAY!

Norway's intelligence service revealed on Thursday that it received information about an imminent "concrete threat" against Norway from people with links to Islamic fighters in Syria.

Head of Norwegian security service PST Benedicte Bjoernland, said the agency has received "reliable information" from a foreign partner about some kind of attack "within days."

"It was unspecific about what the target might be," Bjoernland said, adding PST has no information about how or when such an attack would take place.

According to PST's assessment last month, about 50 people have traveled to Syria from Norway as foreign fighters, half of whom have now returned to Norway. he declined to give further details.

The domestic intelligence agency could not exclude that people involved with the threat already were in Norway, adding it had called staff back from their summer vacation to further investigate the information.