10 METRO Friday, September 25, 2009 D For information contact; Conference & Banqueting T: 01 6073900 E: info@ocallaghanhotels.com Subject to availability. Conditions apply. Celebrity DJ Papillon @ The OCallaghan Alexander Hotel Halleluia Gospel Choir @ The OCallaghan Davenport Hotel Traditional Christmas @ The OCallaghan Mont Clare Hotel www.ocallaghanhotels.com This Christmas theres a party for everyone at OCallaghan Hotels METROWorld SOUTH AFRICA: Rescuers work to free the crew of a plane which crashed into a school field shortly after take-off in Durban, South Africa yesterday. The commercial plane came down near Durban International Airport, critically injuring three people onboard Picture: Getty North Korea: A group of North Koreans seeking political asylum have taken refuge in Denmarks embassy in Hanoi, in Vietnam. Danish Ambassador Peter Hansen confirmed that North Korean citizens had entered his embassy yesterday, but declined to say how many or answer any further questions. Kim Sang-heon, a South Korean activist who helps North Koreans defect, said: I sent nine North Koreans to the embassy, accompanied by other South Korean activists. They are seeking asylum. South Koreas Foreign Ministry would not comment on the incident. The South typically refrains from speaking about asylum bids by North Korean defectors. INDIa: Rescuers used heavy cranes and saws to free more than a dozen people still trapped in the rubble of a large chimney that collapsed at a power plant under construction, killing at least 14 people and injuring seven all 14 bodies have been recovered. A police spokesman said there was some confusion about the number of dead and injured after initial reports said 20 people had died. However, at least 20 people remain trapped in the rubble at the construction site in Korba, 960km southeast of New Delhi. The 250ft (75m) high chimney came crashing down in the plants cafeteria as construction workers had tea about 300 people were working at the time. SomalIa: The EUs humanitarian chief, Karel De Gucht, claims the country will become the new Afghanistan unless Western nations give Sheikh Sharif Ahmeds (pictured) UN- backed government the necessary tools to prevent al-Qaeda from getting a foothold in Africa. President Ahmeds fragile administration is facing a campaign by Islamist insurgents who killed at least 12 people and wounded 17 during an attack on African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu on Wednesday, while twin suicide bombers killed 17 peacekeepers yesterday. auStrIa: High Court judges are to rule on whether teachers should be allowed to relieve the stress of teaching with a cannabis joint. A stressed teacher in Klagenfurt said she was growing dope in her garden to provide the two reefers a day she needed to calm down. The case is before the High Court after teacher Maria Wechsler refused to accept a police caution. hoNDuraS: Hungry citizens scrambled through looted stores and lined up for food during a break in a curfew called to halt violence that erupted with the return of the countrys deposed leftist president. Troops and police ringed the Brazilian Embassy where ousted President Manuel Zelaya (pictured) took shelter on Monday after returning home in a daring challenge to the interim government which threw him out of the country at gunpoint in June, and which has vowed to arrest him if he leaves the shelter of the diplomatic mission. BelgIum: Two armed robbers yesterday stole a painting by Belgian artist Ren Magritte from a small museum in Brussels. The 1948 Olympia oil painting was on display in Magrittes former house which has been turned into a small museum. One man rang the bell and when the concierge opened it, he put a revolver to his head and allowed his accomplice inside. They rounded up visitors and staff and then made their escape with the painting. The nude portrait of the surrealists wife, Georgette, is valued at 750,000. Police confirmed that the museums alarm had sounded when the men broke the paintings protective glass, but they fled before police arrived. SauDI araBIa: The first-ever fully integrated co-ed university has been inaugurated, with King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz declaring the institution will be a beacon of tolerance in a world attacked by extremists. The King Abdullah Science and Technology University breaks many of the conservative countrys social taboos by allowing men and women to take classes together. Speaking at the inauguration, King Abdullah (pictured) said: Scientific centres that embrace all peoples are the first line of defence against extremists. turKeY: Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains killed at least five people in the northeast yesterday. Three people were reported dead in the province of Artvin, including an 80-year-old woman who was swept away after her house collapsed in the town of Borcka, near the border with Georgia. A three year old child was rescued but one other person remains missing. Flash floods stemming from the heaviest rainfall in the last 80 years killed 32 people two weeks ago in the capital, Istanbul. Local authorities were criticised because of illegitimate and poorly executed construction that allegedly contributed to the high death toll. Further rainfall is expected. Bye bye: President Ahmadinejad waves to delegates, some of whom decide to walk out Pictures: EPA/Getty 11 militiamen killed by Taliban PAKISTANI Taliban killed 11 pro- government militiamen yesterday in a fresh outburst of violence in the northwest. Militants attacked members of a pro-government militia, 240km southwest of Islamabad, killing seven, including three ethnic Pashtun tribal chiefs. The militants then fired on tribesmen who were collecting the bodies and killed another two, while two more were killed in clashes with militants later, said a regional intelligence agency official. Five militants were later killed in clashes with security forces. The military has encouraged Pashtun tribes to form militias, known as lashkars, to fight the militants. Attacks had tapered off following the death of the Pakistani Taliban chief in a US drone missile attack last month and after military gains in an offensive in the Swat region in April. But security officials say the Pakistani Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies still pose a serious threat to the nuclear-armed countrys stability. Iran speech sparks walk-out MEMBERS of the Canadian and German delegations attending the 64th session of the United Nations General Debate walked out as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepared to speak on Wednesday. Ahmadinejad accused Israel of inhumane policies in Palestine and of dominating world political and economic affairs. Speaking to a half empty chamber, he later launched a scathing attack on the US and its allies, prompting a walk-out by the US delegation. 60s pop star had sex with daughterBy BriAn EAst FORMER child star Mackenzie Phillips has revealed she had a dec- ade-long sexual relationship with her father, pop superstar John Phil- lips, who also taught her how to roll joints and injected her with cocaine. John Phillips, who died in 2001 of heart failure at the age of 65, was the leader of the 1960s group the Mamas And The Papas. In her new book High On Arrival, Phillips, 49, reveals she had sex with her father on the night before she was married in 1979, aged 19. She told The Oprah Winfrey Show that her siblings definitely have a prob- lem with this. Winfrey also read a statement from Genevieve Waite, Phillips wife at the time of the alleged abuse and Mackenzies stepmother. Waites statement said John Phillips was incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child. Phillips, 49, who starred on TVs One Day At A Time, said the sexual relationship with her father lasted a decade and ended when she became pregnant and didnt know who had fathered the child. She had an abor- tion, which her father paid for, and I never let him touch me again. Family: Mackenzie and John index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html