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A brave dad took control of a woman claiming to be a terrorist on a flight full of families. The woman terrified Jet2 passengers when she allegedly stripped down to her underwear and tried to storm the plane’s cockpit twice while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’. She reportedly said there ‘would be an explosion’ and asked the children she was with if they were ‘ready to die’. The suspect, believed to be in her 30s, also reportedly said her parents were part of the infamous terror group ISIS. Phillip O’Brien, 35, was one of the passengers on the flight travelling from Cyprus to Manchester. He was with six members of his family, including his wife and three children. ‘As you can imagine everyone was s****ing themselves,’ he told The Mirror . Phillip, who used to work in security as a teenager, asked staff why no one had ‘put [the woman] to the floor’. When the crew said they were not ‘able to’ Phillip said: ‘Well I am.’ The drainage firm boss then got hold of her and … [Read more...] about Dad restrains woman who stripped on flight and told him about ‘explosion’

FRESH satellite images reveal the devastation at a Russian airbase after it was struck by a series of powerful explosions. Broken and charred remains of Russian fighter jets can be seen at the air force base in occupied Crimea, following a reported Ukrainian airstrike on Tuesday afternoon. Russia had previously denied any of its aircraft were damaged in the blast at Saki airbase in Western Crimea , just miles from beaches popular with Russian visitors. The suspected Ukrainian attack left at least one person dead, up to 20 aeroplanes destroyed, and around $1 billion of damage, according to Anton Gerashchenko, advisor to Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs. On Wednesday, a clip reportedly taken from the base revealed the scorched remains of a £19m Russian fighter jet destroyed on the base. Russia has again denied that any aircraft were damaged in the blasts - even refusing to acknowledge that any attack had taken place - bizarrely putting the incident down to an … [Read more...] about Satellite pics show devastation at Russian base with ’20 jets destroyed and $1bn of damage’ after mushroom cloud blasts

Sir Ralph Halpern, the businessman, who has died aged 83, was the colourful chief executive of the Burton Group during the 1980s who turned the ailing tailor into a “multi-niche” high-street retailing group valued at £1.6 billion; to tabloid readers, however, he was the “Bonking Burton Boss” who featured in a notorious kiss-and-tell story that painted him as a “five-times-a-night” stallion. From making a loss of £100 million in 1977, the Burton Group, as it became, went to pre-tax profits of more than £180 million in 1987. It owned Topshop, Topman, Topgirl, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Principles, Harvey Nichols, Debenhams, employed 35,000 staff at some 2,000 outlets and had interests in property and credit cards. At one time £1 in every £8 spent on clothes in Britain were spent at Burton Group stores. A dapper, twitchy figure in his Burton suit, 5ft 10in tall and a mere 12 stone – “10 stone without his wallet,” his minder remarked – Halpern led the company in unquestionably virile … [Read more...] about Sir Ralph Halpern, flamboyant chief of the Burton Group who built it into a “multi-niche” retail empire – obituary

A former head of the British Army has called for international aid to be returned to Afghanistan despite the Taliban's human rights abuses. Baron Dannatt said the withdrawal of aid had led to babies dying and people going hungry - and that the lack of education for women and other human rights failures are a price worth paying to continue aid. One year ago today Western troops left the Afghan capital of Kabul and the Taliban took control of the country. Aid is still being sent to Afghanistan , but it is distributed through NGOs and charities and does not go to the Taliban, according to the Foreign Office. Speaking to Sky News, Lord Dannatt said: "We quite unnecessarily withdrew in precipitate haste a year ago, but then I think absolutely outrageously have cut aid to Afghanistan. "Such that the people, the babies, are in a condition your film has just shown right across the country. "People are starving. More on Afghanistan Evacuation of Kabul … [Read more...] about Former head of British Army Lord Dannatt calls for aid to be sent to Afghanistan despite human rights abuses

My patient’s trip to the clinic had taken her nearly two hours—a subway, a bus, and enough traffic to jack up her blood pressure by an additional 10 points. Plus, she was missing a day of work—and pay—as a contract cleaner.  When I asked her if she would prefer a televisit for our next meeting, she nodded gratefully. To put my biases on the table, I’ve always been a staunch defender of old-fashioned, one-on-one, direct medical care. In my career as a primary-care doctor, I’ve stressed the irreplaceable value of the connection between patient and clinician not just for the human element, but for the documented medical benefits . However, doctors and nurses would ill serve our patients if we didn’t retain the capacity to change. Years ago, when telemedicine first edged into my consciousness, I pooh-poohed it as a second-rate simulacrum, valuable perhaps for rural communities lacking access to specialists, but otherwise hardly worth the crinkly exam paper it was replacing. Even as … [Read more...] about Serving Patients Through a Screen