A plane carrying 97 people made an emergency landing in western Australia on Tuesday after one of its engines caught fire. No one was injured.

Cobham Aviation Services said one of the plane's four engines caught fire as it was climbing shortly after takeoff from Perth Airport.

"When the fire was detected, the engine was shut down and the fire extinguished," the company said in a statement. "There were no injuries among the 92 passengers or two pilots and three cabin crew."

The British Aerospace BAe 146 jet, which had been heading to Barrow Island off the west Australian coast, returned to Perth and landed safely. The cause of the fire was under investigation.

Passenger Jason Grimmett said he was sitting near the engine that caught fire.

A FedEx Corp package handler armed with a shotgun opened fire at a shipping facility in suburban Atlanta early on Tuesday, injuring six people before killing himself, apparently with his own weapon, police and hospital officials said.

Three people were in critical condition, two of them with life-threatening injuries, after being shot by the 19-year-old gunman just before 6 a.m. EDT at a FedEx warehouse near the airport in Kennesaw, Georgia, about 30 miles northwest of Atlanta, police and hospital officials said.

The shooter, identified as Geddy L. Kramer of Acworth, Georgia, drove up to the security guard shack at the warehouse and shot the guard before entering the warehouse where he shot the other five people, according to police.

FedEx employee Liza Aiken told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution she was correcting addresses on packages when she saw a colleague dressed in black and armed with a knife, gun and a cartridge belt strapped across this chest.

Anti-government protesters have surrounded the Interior Ministry office in Lugansk, after seizing the city's regional administration building and prosecutor's office.

Several hours into the gathering, a large crowd of people remains outside. According to live stream footage from the scene, the mood of the crowd is mostly joyful with people singing songs and joking. Protesters are demanding that police surrender and leave the HQ. A group of people formed a "human corridor" through which they want police to leave the building. From time to time, protesters chanted pro-Russian slogans.

A Florida man is facing criminal charges after an officer arrested him - all for taping the officer as he attempted to detain another individual.

The incident began on St. Patrick's Day, when Miami-Dade Officer Michael Valdez arrived at a store in Cutler Bay in order to arrest the owner on misdemeanor traffic charges. Freelance disc jockey Lazaro Estrada was performing a promotional event at the time Valdez arrived, and started recording the arrest on his smartphone.

According to CBS Miami, Estrada said he started taping the incident when the officer threw the handcuffed owner down onto the sidewalk. Valdez can be seen signaling to Estrada to move away, and the disc jockey can be seen stepping back into the store, though he continues recording.

A man knocks at your door. You answer and he tells you he is an encyclopaedia salesman.

'I have the largest and most comprehensive encyclopaedia the world has ever seen', he says.

'Tell me about it!'

'It has more editors and more entries than any other encyclopaedia ever. Most of the contributors are anonymous and no entry is ever finished. It is constantly changing. Any entry may be different each time you go back to it. Celebrities and companies pay PR agencies to edit entries. Controversial topics are often the subject of edit wars that can go on for years and involve scores of editors. Pranksters and jokers may change entries and insert bogus facts. Whole entries about events that never happened may be created. Other entries will disappear without notice. Experts may be banned from editing subjects that they are leading authorities on, because they are cited as primary sources. University academics and teachers warn their students to exercise extreme caution when using it. Nothing in it can be relied on. You will never know whether anything you read in it is true or not. Are you interested?'

'I'll think about it', you say, and close the door.

A new study reveals that men are often the victims of sexual assault, and women are often the perpetrators.Last year the National Crime Victimization Survey turned up a remarkable statistic. In asking 40,000 households about rape and sexual violence, the survey uncovered that 38 percent of incidents were against men. The number seemed so high that it prompted researcher Lara Stemple to call the Bureau of Justice Statistics to see if it maybe it had made a mistake, or changed its terminology. After all, in years past men had accounted for somewhere between 5 and 14 percent of rape and sexual violence victims. But no, it wasn't a mistake, officials told her, although they couldn't explain the rise beyond guessing that maybe it had something to do with the publicity surrounding former football coach Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State sex abuse scandal.

The mother of a young man with Down syndrome who was killed by police officers in Maryland told Congress on Tuesday that federal standards were needed to ensure law enforcement agents received the training they needed.

"I want to tell you that I am here as a grieving mother. It's been 15 months. I'm not sure that it will ever stop," Patti Saylor testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights.

Saylor's son, Ethan, tried to stay for a second viewing of the movie Zero Dark Thirty in January 2013. But movie theater staff called security because Ethan hadn't purchased a second ticket. Three off-duty Frederick County sheriff's deputies forcefully removed Ethan from the theater, even though an aide told them that Ethan had Down syndrome and his mother was on her way.

"The one officer approached him, nicely at first, but demanded that he leave," Saylor told the senators. "Ethan was trying to buy a ticket using his cell phone. He had no money, he did not drive for himself. He needed to depend on others to get the things he wanted in life, and he wanted to stay and watch the movie."

"The officers proceeded to physically remove him from the theater, dragged him from his seat, tried to handcuff him, when that didn't work while he was standing, they placed him on the ground, put handcuffs on, and my son died of asphyxiation on that floor of that movie theater for that $10 ticket."

In her written testimony, Saylor said that her son died after his throat was crushed by the officers.

"While anyone, disability or not, could have been injured or killed in Ethan's situation that evening, our family also remains deeply concerned that Ethan's rights, as an individual with a disability, were violated. The autopsy showed that Ethan's larynx was crushed while being restrained by the officers. The manner in which Ethan was restrained that evening, with his hands behind his back and forced to lie face down on his stomach, has for years been considered excessive due to the chance of positional asphyxia."

It was soon the Ides of March and I was showering. No, this is not a tawdry attempt at Roman erotica.

I'd felt like shit for weeks going on months. Insomnia, night sweats, gut issues. I'd recently moved to Vancouver and I wasn't happy about it. I attributed it to depression and skimping on food and water. I also pride myself on my high tolerance for pain. But when I've been compelled to write, it's been about friends and artists who got sick and died young. Tragic, infuriating nonsense, often related to living fast and being poor.

Something is up.

The soap slid around my arm pit, and, lo, a lump. Obviously, this thing, the size of a baseball, had been around a while.
"Well, what the f***."

And so started my life on cancer. It's been a month of sudden calls - "Your urgent PET Scan is tonight at 6pm. Don't eat anything. And avoid contact with all children for 6 hours afterward. That requires me figuring out how to not see my child and make sure she is well cared for. I booked a hotel.

New York - Cecily McMillan, wearing a red dress and high heels, her dark, shoulder-length hair stylishly curled, sat behind a table with her two lawyers Friday morning facing Judge Ronald A. Zweibel in Room 1116 at the Manhattan Criminal Court. The judge seems to have alternated between boredom and rage throughout the trial, now three weeks old. He has repeatedly thrown caustic barbs at her lawyers and arbitrarily shut down many of the avenues of defense. Friday was no exception.

The silver-haired Zweibel curtly dismissed a request by defense lawyers Martin Stolar and Rebecca Heinegg for a motion to dismiss the case. The lawyers had attempted to argue that testimony from the officer who arrested McMillan violated Fifth Amendment restrictions against the use of comments made by a defendant at the time of arrest. But the judge, who has issued an unusual gag order that bars McMillan's lawyers from speaking to the press, was visibly impatient, snapping, "This debate is going to end." He then went on to uphold his earlier decision to heavily censor videos taken during the arrest, a decision Stolar said "is cutting the heart out of my ability to refute" the prosecution's charge that McMillan faked a medical seizure in an attempt to avoid being arrested. "I'm totally handicapped," Stolar lamented to Zweibel.

The trial of McMillan, 25, is one of the last criminal cases originating from the Occupy protest movement. It is also one of the most emblematic. The state, after the coordinated nationwide eradication of Occupy encampments, has relentlessly used the courts to harass and neutralize Occupy activists, often handing out long probation terms that come with activists' forced acceptance of felony charges. A felony charge makes it harder to find employment and bars those with such convictions from serving on juries or working for law enforcement. Most important, the long probation terms effectively prohibit further activism.

Long Beach police were pursuing a man fleeing from a Target Store security guard for a "a crime allegedly committed at the store," the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said late Sunday.

When deputies arrived to help security officers locked in a struggle with the man, he pulled out a large pair of scissors, according to a department statement.

The man then fled to his vehicle and led the police on a chase which ended at the 1800 block of East Ocean Boulevard.

The department claimed that he was refusing commands to exit his vehicle and allegedly got out of his car with a "large wooden stick."

When the man began to flea police they initially fired a stun bag at him, which showed to have no effect.

At this point the Long Beach Police claim to have "encountered the man" and shot him. However the video shows no such encounter. The man is completely isolated and it appears that he was shot in cold blood, in the back.