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Python on Plane Wing Shocks, Fascinates Passengers

Without Samuel L. Jackson around to take care of business, a python attached itself to the wing of Qantas Airways flight yesterday. Shocked passengers reportedly watched in fascination as the animal clung to the wing for over two hours en route from Cairns to Papua New Guinea, with Robert Weber actually videotaping the incident. Watch the python hang on for deal life here, as Weber talks about what happened: Python on Plane Wing! The snake remained on the wing the entire flight, but a Qantas spokesman said the it was dead on arrival once crew members checked out the creature on the runway. And, no, unlike the invisible driver , this was no prank.

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[photo]Lucas Chow resigns

A MediaCorp spokesman said Mr Lucas Chow was not taking interviews, but in an internal email to staff sent at 4pm obtained by The Straits Times, he said #39;it is difficult not to feel a tinge of mixed emotions leaving such a great company, and even greater colleagues… Thank you once again for five exhilarating years together.#39; The Search is on for the next CEO of MediaCorp. In a shock announcement on Tuesday, the national broadcaster announced that its chief executive, Mr Lucas Chow, was

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Soldier killed in Afghanistan re-enlisted to get health care coverage for family

CNN news anchor John Roberts asks “How far would you go to get good health insurance?” A report this morning tells the heartbreaking story of a man who lost his job as a computer consultant, and along with the job went the health insurance for his family. Army SPC Greg Missman had ended his military service 11 years earlier, but signed back on in order to provide his young son Jack with health insurance coverage. After only one month on the ground in Afghanistan, Missman's father Jim received the news that Greg's convoy had been ambushed, and Greg was killed in the attack.

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