Air Disaster in Albacete




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Summary: On Monday, an F-16 fighter jet manned by two Greek pilots crashed on takeoff, hitting the hangar where other aircraft were awaiting their turn to take part in a Nato exercise. Ten military personnel died on impact: the two Greek captains and eight Frenchmen – three captains, one lieutenant and four non-commissioned officers. Charity soccer matches organized under the name of Argentinean star Lionel Messi in four countries in 2012 and 2013 raked in hundreds of thousands of euros that were later stashed away in secret bank accounts in Curaçao and Hong Kong, according to a Civil Guard investigation. Pope Francis granted a private audience to a transgender Spaniard in the Vatican on January 24 after the latter wrote asking him for support, a regional newspaper from Extremadura reported. A former docker has claimed that workers were paid to dip their cranes as Winston Churchill's coffin passed along the River Thames to his funeral at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Peter Rolfe, 64, who has fathered 26 children with 15 mothers, said his previous three-bedroom home on the Isle of Wight was a 'prison' and the council had a 'duty' to give him a bigger house. Police hand out more than 400 cautions for sex with under-13s. Some cautions may be to avoid children giving evidence but campaigners were outraged, with Tory MP Philip Davies saying paedophiles were being spared the 'full force of the law'. Married school caretaker tried to order 12-year-old girl for £100 an hour from notorious paedophile by text but is spared jail. Father-of-three Joseph Hart contacted paedophile Darren Leggett via a website when police intercepted their text messages and raided Hart's home in Horwich, Bolton. Rugby bosses in Yorkshire have introduced 'Silent Sundays' to discourage aggressive behaviour from parents on the sidelines after referees increasingly became the targets of 'verbal abuse'