Five people have died after a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft collided with a commercial passenger jet at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. Video footage shows the passenger jet completely engulfed in flames after all of the passengers and crew had managed to evacuate.
Police have not uncovered any evidence of either terrorism or political motives in the fatal Rochester, New York crash that occurred early Monday morning. Rochester Police Chief David Smith said the driver may have been suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness.
A senior Hamas official, Saleh al-Arouri, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, security sources have told Reuters.
Harvard University president Claudine Gay is facing six new accusations of plagiarism, bringing the total to nearly 50. One of the new charges relates to a 2001 article where she allegedly copied almost half a page from another scholar.
