Returning from Africa, Pope Francis took umbrage with those who used Pope Benedict XVI's death to attack the church. He was also joined by fellow faith leaders he traveled with in defending the gay community.

State-run TV has shown footage of smoke billowing up from the wreckage site following the crash near Pokhara International Airport. Nepal has been plagued by air travel safety issues for years.

The UN has released a highly-awaited report accusing China of serious human rights violations against Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province. The China Daily fiercely refutes these accusations in its edition today. Also, French papers pay tribute to the late Mikhail Gorbachev. Finally, a US pilot issues a stern warning to rowdy passengers mid-flight who kept "airdropping" nude pics to him.

A Southwest Airlines pilot recently threatened to deplane a flight headed to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, after he learned that a passenger had AirDropped unsolicited nude photos to other travelers on board.

Somali plane crash lands on runway as media reports say no fatalities among the 30 people on board the flight.

Rescue workers have recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small passenger plane that went down in a remote part of the country over the weekend.

A Passenger With No Flying Experience Landed a Cessna After the Pilot Went Down. This flight passenger really stuck the landing. After the pilot on his private plane became incapacitated, an anonymous passenger landed the aircraft himself—without any previous flying experience.

A Nigerian jet has been downed in the northwest of the country. The pilot safely ejected and avoided capture.

A US military plane takes off for India from Travis Air Force Base in California with 440 oxygen cylinders and regulators, one million N-95 masks and one million Covid-19 rapid diagnostics kits donated by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). On Thursday India reported 3,645 deaths over the past 24 hours, while confirming new cases hit a new global record with more than 379,000. The official numbers are widely believed to be far below the reality.

Brazilian Pilot Antonio Sena is rescued from the middle of the Amazon jungle, where he spent 38 days stranded after he crashed his plane, until he stumbled across a family of nut pickers who gave him shelter and delivered him to the police. "I was emotionally devastated... I thought that I might not get out of there, that I might die there," he says back home in the capital Brasilia.

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