Passenger plane crashes in hills near Pakistan capital

Pakistani TV showed smoke rising from the scene of the crash

A plane has crashed in hills north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
Police said it was an Airblue flight to Islamabad via Karachi, with more than 150 people on board.
It crashed in the Margalla Hills to the north of the city, and Pakistani television showed images of foggy, rainy hillside with helicopters flying overhead.
A huge rescue effort has been launched.
"There is smoke, but we have not been able to reach there. It is surrounded by the hills and there is no road access," police official Sayed Subhan told the AFP news agency.
"There were 146 passengers and six crewmen on board. We are gathering information. We have no more details," Mubarik Shah, spokesman of the state-run Civil Aviation Authority, told the Reuters news agency.
The plane is thought to have left Karachi at 0750, and officials said it lost contact with the control tower minutes before landing.
Skies in Islamabad have been heavily overcast during the last couple of days.
A heavy fog envelops the heavily forested Margalla Hills this morning and it has been raining for several hours. Initial reports said the flight originated in Turkey, but this has not been confirmed.
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By Chris Johnson

Walking tall: Angelina Jolie and her never-ending legs hit the red carpet for the premiere of Salt in Tokyo today


As she confidently strode onto the red carpet, to all intents and purposes Angelina Jolie was the epitome of Hollywood glamour.

The 35-year-old actress caused a frenzy at the Tokyo premiere of her new movie Salt, wearing a flowing black Versace chiffon dress, slashed provocatively to the hip and showing off her stunning legs.

However on closer inspection, the revealing outfit laid bare here sinewy arms, which were lined with bulging veins, suggesting the star had, perhaps, been working a little too hard at the gym.

Wearing her hair in a stylish updo, the svelte celeb teamed the backless design - which revealed her many tattoos - with a pair of towering heels.

The effect drew even more attention to her never-ending legs, but up close her many fans could not have failed to have noticed her Madonna-like arms.


Hollywood glamour: The star looked stunning in the design which she teamed with towering peep-toe heels


The assembled throng of fans waited hours in the sweltering 35C heat and humidity just to catch a glimpse of the star.

Angelina attended the Tokyo International Forum for the Japanese premiere of Salt and by the time she arrived at 7pm local time (11am BST), the hundreds of supporters erupted into deafening screams as she began signing autographs.

Over the weekend Angelina, who has six children with her long-term boyfriend Brad Pitt, was in Russia promoting the movie, in which she plays a woman called Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent who is accused of being a KGB spy and then goes on the run.


Oh dear: But the revealing outfit showed off the actress's veiny, Madonna-like arms, suggesting she had been working out a little to hard at the gym


Dress slashed to the hip: The backless design showed off her many tattoos. Jolie plays a secret agent in the spy thriller


Today she brushed off rumours about shaky relations with Pitt, 46.

'He was just a wonderful father,' she said of Pitt, during work on the film. 'He often brought the children to the set,' she added.

'They played with fake blood, and they found mommy very strange in her different hair,' she said.

Pitt and Jolie have been partners since they began a relationship while working on the 2005 film Mr & Mrs Smith.


Meet and greet: The assembled crowed erupted into a fervour as the star made her entrance


Last week, Pitt and Jolie accepted undisclosed damages in London's High Court to settle a privacy claim against a News of the World article that had reported in January that they were planning to split.

Asked about her ability to work and maintain a happy family, Jolie told reporters at a Tokyo hotel: 'Brad is the word that makes it possible.'

Jolie, who arrived yesterday, brought four of the children along on the Japan trip. They have already spent some time shopping for toys inspired by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's animation characters Ponyo and Totoro, she said.


Going wild: The assembled throng take photos of Jolie as she signs autographs - while security staff help to contain the fans


She acknowledged she once surprised her eight-year-old son Maddox with her disguise as a male naval officer in Salt.

He came into the room and reluctantly shook hands with the person he did not know was his mother.

'And I said, 'Honey, it's mommy,'' Jolie said.

'I think I freaked him out,' she said with a laugh, adding that he then watched her peel off her fake ears, hands and nose.

'I play these roles, but I'm always in every minute their mom first,' she said. 'I'm a bit of a goofy. I'm funny at home, I think.'

Her children are not going to be seeing the movie, however.

'I think it's very hard for them to see someone trying to kill their mom, even if she wins,' she said







source: dailymail

By Neil Wilson in Barcelona

Pure joy: Mo Farah celebrates victory in Barcelona


Mo Farah, a giant grin on his face, ended 76 barren years for Britain's 10,000 metre runners when he crossed the line in the Olympic Stadium to win the European gold that had eluded generations of great competitors.

And the celebration doubled when his friend and training partner Chris Thompson chased him down the straight to win the silver in a time shared with Italian bronze medallist Daniele Meucci.

The British pair had trained together in the French Pyrenees and they helped each other in the race. When they accompanied each other on the victory lap, two Union flags were linked to the Somalian flag of Farah's birth.

The victor declared: 'That was amazing. This has never been done before and it feels just great. To win with him second is the best result I could have expected.'


Friends reunited: Farah and Thompson embrace after their glory run in Barcelona


Thompson pointed to his 27-year-old friend in the tunnel that exits the track and said: 'He is the greatest British endurance runner ever. And I'm the second best! Down the back straight it was all British flags. It was a glimpse of 2012, the best half-hour of my life.'

Even in the 1970s, the most glorious decade of endurance running in Britain when David Bedford and Brendan Foster shattered world records, no Briton managed to break the duck in Olympic, world or European competition by winning gold in this longest of track events. Such was the size of this triumph.

The 10,000 is a matter as much of mind as body. Rivals have to be out-thought as well as out-run and Farah played them all like a classical conductor.

He let others set a slow pace for 15 laps until Thompson became bored and went to the front. His friend, ever watchful, closed on his heels. The pace increased, the field spread but still two Spaniards dogged the Britons and four others stayed in contention.

Finally, with less than six laps to go, Farah made his move. Only Spain's Ayad Lamdassem stayed with him and with just three to go they were in conversation. Now the Spaniard led and Farah followed but with 320m to go, Farah chose the moment when they were lapping a group of back-markers to sprint.

The Spaniard was taken by surprise and done in. Thompson passed him and held off a late challenge from Meucci.


Out in front: Farah is tracked by Ayad Lamdassem, with Chris Thompson just behind


Four years ago, in Gothenburg, Farah was denied a European title at 5,000m when he was out-sprinted to the line by Spaniard Jesus Espana. Just nine one-hundredths of a second denied him the gold. This was his revenge.

Four years ago, the decline from the days of Bedford and Foster was so marked that Britain did not even enter this event.


The first sign of resurgence came in April when Thompson, an outstanding teenager who suffered a succession of injuries, ran 25 laps for the first time in California in a time only Eamonn Martin and Jon Brown had ever bettered among Britons.

Two weeks later, in only his second effort, Farah ran nearly a second quicker. Farah, a refugee from war-stricken Somalia when he was a boy, was always favourite to win the duel of two friends.

His championship record - a European silver at 5,000m, gold in the European cross-country in 2006 and European indoor 3,000m gold last year - showed the finer pedigree and so it proved.


source: dailymail

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By Colin Young

Free agent: Sol Campbell's Arsenal contract expired earlier this summer


Sol Campbell is poised to sign a year-long deal to join Newcastle on Wednesday in a major snub to Arsene Wenger and Steve Bruce.

The former Arsenal and England defender, who had a medical on Tyneside on Tuesday, is available on a free after coming to the end of his Gunners contract.

He is expected to agree a �35,000-a-week deal in the next 24 hours, making it the fifth time in his 18-year career he has moved without incurring a fee.

Moves from Tottenham to Arsenal, on to Pompey, then the ill-fated excursion to Notts County, back to Arsenal and now to Newcastle would have cost millions.

Newcastle boss Chris Hughton is set to pull off the biggest transfer of his year in charge by landing the 35-year-old, and the switch to the North East will enable Campbell to live in his new Northumberland house with his new bride, Fiona Barratt.


Summer loving: Campbell married Fiona Barratt in Corbridge, Northumberland, earlier this month


The central defender has been offered a year-long contract with the option of an additional 12 months.

His decision to join Hughton, whom he worked with at Tottenham, is a blow to Arsenal manager Wenger and Sunderland boss Bruce as well as Celtic manager Neil Lennon, who, like Bruce, met the defender for talks.

Newcastle stepped up their search for an experienced centre half when they discovered last week they will be without Steven Taylor for at least three months after surgery to a shoulder injured in their opening pre-season friendly at Carlisle United.

Campbell finished last season with a second spell at Arsenal and, although he was released by the club at the end of May, he was expected to be offered a third term at the Emirates.


His decision to move north increases the pressure on Wenger to find defensive recruits before the start of the season.

Arsenal have already lost Campbell, William Gallas and Mikael Silvestre, and Swiss defender Johan Djourou is still fighting back from knee surgery and will not be fit for the start of the campaign.

French defender Laurent Koscielny has joined from Lorient on a long-term deal but Wenger will want extra bodies in for the coming season and will have regarded Campbell as a safe fall-back option.

Meanwhile, former England forward Peter Beardsley has been appointed reserve-team coach at St James' Park, where he will be assisted by Steve Stone.



Good move by Man of Steel
by Martin Keown


My old team-mate Sol Campbell provided Arsenal with a bit more steel last season at vital times and he will provide that for Newcastle as they return to the Premier League.

They have been away only one season but there will be uncertainty there about whether they belong at that level and he can help with that.

Newcastle have been attracted to a powerful, quick, experienced defender, the sort of player who is in short supply. He did enough with Arsenal in his time back there to show people that he is still at the races.

He must have been close to the England World Cup squad and maybe now they wish they had taken him.

My only concern for him is that he has missed about four weeks of preseason. He will need about six weeks' training to be where he wants to be but he has plenty to offer and I wish him all the best.


source: dailymail

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