The Guardian'I was fighting for my life': Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls flydubai cockpit attack
Pilot Smit Machchhar tells India's PM by video call he realised passengers would die if he did not get up and fight the flydubai attacker.
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Pilot Smit Machchhar tells India's PM by video call he realised passengers would die if he did not get up and fight the flydubai attacker.
Israel's PM says the flydubai co-pilot accused of attacking the captain had been radicalised; Saudi security services are questioning him.
Deconstructed: how the stabbing unfolded on the Israel-bound flydubai flight that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.
Friday briefing on how Guardian journalists separated fact from rumour as the flydubai incident unfolded.
Calls grow for a US death penalty halt after Christa Pike's botched execution, which experts call unimaginably barbaric; she is alive but critical.
Explainer on Pike, sentenced to death for a 1995 murder, who survived two lethal injections and was taken to hospital.
Video: Pike's lawyer calls the botched execution cruel and torturous; Tennessee has suspended executions for the year.
The US is sending a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East amid a stalemate in the Iran war, with midterms looming.
Live business: diesel hits £2 a litre for the first time and eurozone inflation surges.
Over 560 French schools are disrupted as student protests escalate; dozens of schools are damaged and nearly 3,000 teenagers detained.
French school protests escalate into what officials call urban violence, with about 900 demonstrations; the PM calls a crisis cabinet.
Kathy Hochul will address the Cornell University case after appointing a special prosecutor, saying she no longer trusts the local DA to handle it.
A Cairo mural of Tutankhamun and Nefertiti made for the Chinese president's state visit was painted over amid a row over its depiction.
A bear treats itself to baked goods at a Colorado farmers' market, surprising shoppers and vendors in Aspen.
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Ukraine says an intercepted document shows Russia plans ballistic-missile and drone strikes to cripple its power grid this winter.
Ministers complain bitterly of getting a kicking in budget talks as Jack Chambers tries to hold increases to 6 per cent.
The family of Kathleen Carey, who died in the Dublin balcony fall, prepare her funeral weeks after burying her sister.
Opinion: Drumcree shows unification is the North's best bet, since the dispute is about entitlement to rule the roost.
Robert Watt says Dublin 1 carries a huge overconcentration of social services and other councils must share the load.
Mac Cionnaith says there is no such thing as half a march as Drumcree talks break up; the Orange Order says it will accept the outcome of a High Court appeal.
Under-18s are banned from using e-scooters from today, and fees for detaining and storing seized e-scooters double.
A woman was arrested in Co Galway over an alleged six-year harassment campaign.
A pedestrian died after an incident involving a bus on Lower Glanmire Road in Cork at 6.30am.
Fórsa's 72-hour strike at Oberstown Child Detention Campus is postponed after WRC talks.
Analysis: Europe's China shock is hollowing out industry and pushing politics to the right.
Trump says Iran will be hit very hard if it was behind the attack by the co-pilot who tried to crash the Israel-bound plane.
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A West Belfast woman who stabbed her abusive partner to death wins an appeal; judges quash the verdict and give prosecutors two weeks to decide on a retrial.
Emergency teams respond to reports of people trapped in a collapse on the Ballygowan Road in Crossnacreevy, which is closed to traffic.
Police release an image of Bangor man Mark Adamson, a former soldier who assaulted and strangled his ex over nine months.
NI Secretary Chris Bryant says the situation is between a rock and a hard place as Drumcree talks end without agreement.
Opinion: Chris Donnelly warns the Drumcree crisis could have consequences far beyond Portadown and spread to other areas.
The Policing Board opens a probe into Deirdre Hargey's Garvaghy Road protest appearance, with a conflict-of-interest question raised.
The PSNI Drumcree bill tops £3m as the stand-off enters its fifth day.
Opinion: Sarah Creighton says forcing the parade down Garvaghy Road would leave the peace process in tatters.
Newry woman Claire Little danced before chemotherapy after a 102-day wait for breast cancer treatment she called agonising.
Unison warns removing Daisy Hill maternity services is a matter of life and death for rural women.
Councillor Peter Byrne will contest Newry and Armagh for the SDLP, replacing Justin McNulty.
Dissidents, drug dealers and criminals are blamed for Derry disorder involving petrol bombs and fireworks, as community groups push back.
Stormont spends £300k on IT consultants who advise hiring a new six-figure Chief Digital Officer.
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Opinion: the central players in the reignited Drumcree dispute seem to be secretly enjoying the limelight.
A detached Craigavad family home near the coast is on the market at offers over £650,000.
Protesters calling themselves "cockroaches" demand India's polling chief resign over voter-list claims.
A teenager who adopted a gangster persona is locked up over a £20 drug debt murder.
An Ebola treatment centre is burned down as the death toll in Congo passes 4,000.
Restaurant review: a new town-centre venture by Stevie and Christina Higginson earns praise for food and service.
MLA Danny Baker calls a break-in at a west Belfast priest's home, where a passport, laptop and cash were stolen, a despicable act.
Bertie Ahern is in talks to act as mediator between the Orange Order and Garvaghy Road residents.
Boutcher promises a robust probe into complaints of Sinn Féin lawbreaking on Garvaghy Road as the PSNI faces scrutiny.
Analysis: Drumcree leaves Stormont on the brink as the DUP and Sinn Féin face off.
Opinion: Drumcree is a symptom of a deeper sickness and everyone loses however it ends.
Belfast tour guides explain how tours reveal a city with a rich but troubled history and how far it has come.
The former Glens of Antrim Potatoes premises in Co Antrim are on the market for £2.6m after administration.
Three people are arrested in Londonderry in police action on outstanding warrants and wanted people.