An Angel Flight New England (AFNE) plane crashed in a supermarket parking lot here Tuesday morning killing the pilot, a cancer patient and his wife. There were no casualties on the ground. Witnesses saw the single-engine plane stalling before nose-diving at the Hannaford's parking lot on Robert Drive near Route 106 at 10:25 a. m. The plane exploded into a fireball.

The Sunday night fire that hit a shopping mall in the shopping district of Baclaran is still burning. Firefighters found it difficult to battle the two-day fire due to the absence of windows and doors, textiles stored in the mall and lack of water and equipment.

The nation that gave the world counterfeit toys, fake toothpaste and poisoned pet food also gave 3 billion television viewers a bogus fireworks show of Olympic proportions Friday night, according to media reports Monday. The spectacular fireworks telecast to billions of viewers around the world at the end of the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics Friday night were largely faked using computer animation and the audience wasn't told, the Beijing Times newspaper revealed.

A California Department of Public Health report released Monday said 127 UCLA Medical Center workers went through the medical files of celebrities from January 2004 to June 2006. Despite a crackdown in April the report said three hospital staff members continued to look at the records of an unidentified celebrity, the report said. State regulators blamed UCLA management of UCLA for not implementing proper measures to stop the practice and keep medical records confidential.

The European Union wants members of the 27-member bloc protected not only against lung cancer from cigarette smoke, but also deaths caused by cigarette fire. By introducing self-extinguishing cigarettes, 2,000 lives could be saved in the EU annually, the EU Commissioner for Consumer Affairs said. The German Fire Departments' Association supported the initiative.