Captain Smit Machchhar is recovering in an Abu Dhabi hospital and told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a video call that he knew he had to get back on his feet to save the passengers aboard the aircraft.

The parents of Jake and Callum Robinson have spent much of the past four weeks inside this small, featureless room just two metres from their sons’ accused killers. In days, they will finally have a verdict.

The rape allegations gained national attention after the woman filed a lawsuit last month, both because of the brutality of the alleged crime and the fact that none of the accused students faced criminal charges.

Ahead of general elections, the Malaysian government has begun deporting Myanmar refugees and migrants to their war-torn homelands.

The convicted murderer would have been the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 years, but she survived two doses of a lethal drug that had been administered and is now in hospital in a critical condition.

Each year, thousands of pigeons are released into Tiananmen Square for China’s National Day celebrations. Within minutes, many fly back to their owners.

Her lawyer called the process cruel and said he was “haunted” by watching and hearing his client talking, singing and then snoring loudly during her more than 90 minutes in the death chamber.

Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal of what would have been the state’s first...

Tensions flared outside a barricaded high school, where masked and hooded protesters threw projectiles at police officers. The protests are part of a growing student movement demanding greater funding and resources for French schools.

Death row prisoner Christa Pike remains alive after two lethal injection attempts.

A sixth man has been arrested in the UK over an alleged bomb plot near an RAF base.

SpaceX has launched four astronauts into orbit, headed for the International Space Station on a six month mission.

Israel's Prime Minister has met passengers from the flydubai plane who foiled a hijacking attempt.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said authorities were looking into the personal life of the Omani national. US President Donald Trump suggested a possible link to Iran.

Three Israeli passengers who stormed the cockpit, a woman who raised the alarm and a dentist who treated the wounded captain are being hailed as heroes after the midair emergency.

Aviation security has become so water-tight that the weakest link now appears to be the pilots themselves.

A couple from Sydney’s east were on board the Flydubai flight en route to Israel during an alleged attempted hijacking.

A close call on a flydubai flight suggests it’s time to reconsider security measures onboard passenger airlines.

The judge agreed to deliver a verdict at 10am next Friday (Mexico time), just hours before parents Debra and Martin Robinson are due to fly home to Perth.

Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.