A small paramilitary aircraft crashed outside New Delhi's main airport on Tuesday, killing all 10 people on board.

The chartered twin-engine plane went up in flames after slamming into a wall shortly after take-off from the Indian capital's Indira Gandhi International airport.

The Super King aircraft, which was heading from New Delhi to the eastern city of Ranchi, was carrying two pilots and eight technicians belonging to India's Border Security Force.

"It's a matter of grave concern that the plane crashed soon after take-off," Mahesh Sharma, the junior civil aviation minister, told reporters.

Fire breaks out at 2am in intensive care unit and maternity department of Jazan general hospital in southern Saudi Arabia

At least 25 people died and 107 were injured in a fire at a hospital in southern Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the civil defence agency said.

The blaze broke out at the intensive care unit and the maternity department of the Jazan general hospital in southern Saudi Arabia, the agency announced on Twitter.

In its latest tweet, the civil defence announced that the "Jazan hospital accident is now over and investigation is underway to find out its reasons."

It said 21 civil defence teams had assisted in putting out the blaze.

On the night of December 4, Carol LaDue and her husband Richard were travelling along County Route 37 near Massena, when they saw an injured woman lying in the road.

The woman was 33-year-old Ashley McDonald, who'd just been hit by a car and was dying.

As the couple got out of their vehicle to render aid to McDonald, they were savagely attacked by McDonald's husband, Bryan, a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Out of nowhere, the off-duty public servant rushes in on the Good Samaritans and begins brutally beating this elderly couple. The LaDues were nearly killed by this out of control maniac.

"I think he would have beat her to death, I really do, because there was no stopping the man. He was just out of control and very, very aggressive," said Richard.

Richard suffered a broken nose and multiple lacerations, while his wife suffered a concussion, sprained hand, bruises and a massive head wound.

At least four undercover police officers were caught attempting to infiltrate a protest this week, and one of them reportedly pulled a gun on protesters when he was confronted about his identity. According to The Link Newspaper, one Concordia student, Katie Nelson approached an undercover officer suspiciously and asked him about his identity, and he reacted by slamming her to the ground. The young girl ended up being hospitalized as a result of the attack.

Nelson and another protester by the name of Zachary Savard told The Link that one of the officers pulled a gun on them when he was confronted about being an agent.

"As we came to them, they just took a gun out, and said move," Savard said.

Meanwhile, other undercover agents on the scene grabbed a random protester from the crowd and drug him to a parking lot where they arrested him.

On Sunday Syria's President Bashar al Assad went with his wife Asma to a Christmas Mass concert in Damascus. For many people in the West, the photos that soon appeared of Bashar and Asma hugging and being hugged by small children, old men and young women would probably cause consternation or apoplexy - if they were to see them.

But this is unlikely, as Western media would exercise its duty of care to protect people from such an upsetting sight, and the public disorder that might result. It shouldn't worry however that people's perception of the Syrian leader might change for the better; it is simply not possible for this to happen, any more than it is possible that Syrians would change their minds about President Assad.

The Western media apparatus has strange standards of propriety - often finding it necessary to obscure the images of the wrong people. When some footage emerged of the now infamous 'heart-eating rebel', it was not his face which was blurred out to protect his identity but the body of the poor Syrian soldier this 'freedom fighter' had just disembowelled.

Showing how little things have changed in the two years since that event - one that should have been a 'wake-up call' for the 'Free Syrian Army's' Western cheers squads - we saw a repeat of it only weeks ago following the shooting down of Russia's bomber by Turkey. In deeply shocking footage of the Turkish insurgents celebrating over the bloodied body of the Russian pilot they had just murdered, it was his identity our media chose to protect us from. And those media - CNN Turk and Fox news - had no compunctions about revealing the identity of the leader of this group despite it spoiling their whole story, as he was immediately identified as not even Syrian, and anything but a 'moderate rebel'.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan of the UK has recently voiced concerns that children are not receiving the proper brand of brainwashing and indoctrination from the government. Morgan called for a review of homeschooling and suggested that thousands of children are being "radicalized" by their parents.

"There has always been the freedom in this country for people to educate their children at home. Many people do it very well, but we need to know where the children are and to be certain that they are safe. For every parent doing a brilliant job, there may be someone filling their child's mind with poison. We just don't know. We don't have reliable figures," a Department of Education spokesman said.

The Department said that they were also concerned about what was being taught in private Muslim schools, and that they were intending to crack down on those as well.

Five people were injured Monday afternoon in a chemical plant fire sparked by an explosion in a chemical collection tank.

The fire at Arboris, on Tamarack Road, was reported shortly after 1:30. Newark Fire Chief Patrick Connor said five company workers and contractors were hurt, but their injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.

The fire was extinguished and emergency crews were being released about an hour after it began, Connor said.

An explosion from a collection tank, holding hexane and ethanol, appeared to have caused the blaze, he said.

It did not appear the explosion or resulting fire were caused intentionally, but the fire department's arson investigator was on scene Monday and would continue to look into the fire, said Capt. Andrew Morris. Arboris employees had also started their own internal investigation after crews cleared the scene, he said.

The number of individuals receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, otherwise known as food stamps, has exceeded 45 million for 53 straight months, according to data released by the Department of Agriculture.

There were 45,415,445 beneficiaries of the food stamp program in September 2015, the latest month for which data is available. The number declined by 48,988 from August to September.

The USDA has been tracking data on participation in the program since fiscal year 1969, at which time average participation stood at about 2,800,000. This means that since then, participation in the program has increased by roughly 16-fold.

A cafeteria worker at an Idaho middle school was fired for giving lunch to a 12-year-old student who said she was hungry and had no money for food. The worker said she tried to pay for the lunch, but the school rejected her attempt.

Dalene Bowden, a former employee of Irving Middle School in Pocatello, Idaho, said she was first placed on leave last week, then summarily fired, by the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District for the theft of school district property and inaccurate transactions in her duties as a food service worker, according to the Idaho State Journal.

Bowden, a three year worker with the school district, said that the student had told her she had no money for the $1.70 lunch. Bowden then asked her supervisor if she could purchase the meal for the girl. When the offer was denied, Bowden gave out the lunch for free. After being placed on termination leave on December 15, Bowden received a brief letter, signed by District 25 Director of Human Resources Susan Petit, informing her of her firing.

The eleven-year-old girl shrieked in horror as the shower curtain was ripped away, leaving her exposed to the view of a large male stranger. Her sense of violation was compounded by the threat of immediate, violent death: The marauder was wearing body armor and aiming an assault rifle at the naked, terrified child. Downstairs, the offender's comrades were ransacking the house and barking profane orders at the traumatized child's family. Sterling Harrison, her 19-year-old brother, was sitting in front of a game console when three of the invaders burst into his upstairs room, bound him, and shoved him down the stairway. Her terrified siblings - one thirteen years of age, the other seven - were corralled and imprisoned at gunpoint in the living room along with the rest of the family.

The invaders were police, of course. Nobody in the home was suspected of committing a criminal offense. No evidence of criminal misconduct was found. The SWAT raid was carried out after 10:00 PM, in violation of municipal ordinances. The rationale for this act of state terrorism was the drug-related arrest, nearly two weeks earlier, of Mordsen Box, the 11-year-old girl's estranged father, who hadn't resided at the address for several months.

This after-dark military raid took place at a residence located less than three miles from the White House. Thirteen days before the raid, Mr. Box was arrested by Metro D.C. Police after five ounces of marijuana were found following a pretext traffic stop. Officer Taylor Volpe, who conducted the stop, claimed - falsely, according to the family's lawsuit against the MPD - that the rear license plate of Box's car was partially obstructed by a plastic cover. Once the stop was underway, Volpe - in keeping with his indoctrination as an opportunistic road pirate - asked if there was "anything illegal" in the vehicle. Like countless others in similar situations, Box made the tragic mistake of answering a question the officer had no right to ask.

He stated that he wasn't "aware" of anything illegal in his car, and that Volpe could carry out the search "if you have to.""OK, so I can look?" Volpe reiterated, inducing the intimidated driver to make his consent explicit. Within seconds the officer had found the marijuana, which was confiscated along with $180 in cash that was found in Box's wallet. His expired driver's license listed 1054 Quebec Place NW as his home address.