Bride-To-Be Dies On Way To Bachelorette Party

A 26-year-old bride-to-be has died in a car crash just minutes after snapping a selfie in the vehicle as she headed to her bachelorette party.

Colette Moreno leaves behind a five-year-old son and a devastated family.

"She was so excited. We were planning," said a tearful fiance, 28-year-old Jesse Arcobasso.

The Missouri woman was in the passenger's seat when a car being driven by her friend collided with an oncoming vehicle.

The driver, Ashley Theobald, was trying to pass a truck on the way to the Lake of the Ozarks, where they had planned a weekend of partying.

Ms Theobald said Ms Moreno suffered from asthma and had been coughing because of the fumes that the truck was discharging.

"We both thought it was clear and there was a hill that neither one of us saw," she recalled.

"There was a truck coming and I swerved and he swerved with me."

Ms Theobald suffered minor injuries.

"I've never had a friend like her. I won't ever have a friend like her," she said.

The family has set up a fund in her memory.

Ms Moreno had been planned to marry Mr Arcobasso next month in Jamaica, reports said.

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Nigeria: Explosion Near Shopping Centre

A bomb has gone off near an upmarket shopping centre in the Nigerian capital Abuja, according to reports.

"I heard a loud blast, it shattered the windows of the shop.We ran out. A lot of people ran too, some with blood stains," a witness told Reuters.

More follows...

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Asiana Crash: Boeing 777 System 'Too Complex'

Boeing should change flight controls on its 777 airliner following last year's deadly Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco, say US accident investigators.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) primarily faulted pilot "mismanagement" for the crash, which killed three people and injured 187.

The three veteran pilots were found to have committed 20 or 30 errors in the final approach.

But the agency's final report also cited the "complexities" of the 777's auto-throttle system and auto-flight director as contributing factors.

The jetliner, with 307 people on board, descended too low and too slowly

Boeing, a US manufacturer, said in a statement that it "respectfully disagrees" with the findings.

The NTSB's report also faulted insufficient pilot training by the South Korean airline.

The wide-bodied jetliner, with 307 people on board, descended too low and too slowly during the landing attempt last July 6. Its tail struck a seawall and tore off.

The NTSB recommended Boeing "develop and evaluate" changes to the controls

The NTSB's acting chairman, Chris Hart, said on Tuesday the pilots were experienced but "over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand".

The agency recommended that Boeing "develop and evaluate" changes to the control systems.

Asiana conceded the probable cause of the accident was the crew's failure to check the plane's airspeed, and to abort landing, according to documents released by the NTSB.

The three passengers killed were Chinese teenagers

But the airline also said the pilots had reason to believe the auto-throttle, which they unintentionally deactivated earlier in the flight, would keep the plane flying at the right speed.

Doug Adler, media relations spokesman for Boeing, told Sky News that the company would carefully review the agency's report.

"Boeing respectfully disagrees with the NTSB's statement that the 777's auto-flight system contributed to this accident, a finding that we do not believe is supported by the evidence," he said.

It is the only fatal passenger airline accident in the US since 2009

He noted the system had been used for more than 55m safe landings.

All three of the fatalities in the Asiana crash were Chinese teenagers, one of whom died after she was run over by a fire engine in the confused aftermath.

It was the first fatal accident involving the 777 since its launch in 1995.

It is also the only deadly passenger airline crash in the US in the last five years.

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US Troops Arrive In Baghdad On ISIS Mission

The first team of American military advisers has arrived in Iraq to help the country tackle the threat from Islamist insurgents.

About 40 of the 300 expected to be deployed to the Middle Eastern country were described by the Pentagon as having "started their mission".

Admiral John Kirby told reporters that two "initial assessment teams" have been deployed in Baghdad.

He said their role would be to assess the Iraqi army and not to engage in attacks on militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), who have seized several towns north of Baghdad.

Admiral Kirby said: "This isn't about rushing to the rescue.

"These teams will assess the cohesiveness and readiness of the Iraqi security forces ... and examine the most effective and efficient way to introduce follow-on advisers."

Pentagon spokesman Admiral John Kirby

In addition to the first 40, about 90 troops are thought to have arrived to set up a joint operations centre. Another 50 are expected to join them shortly.

It came as Iraqi air strikes killed at least 38 people in their battle to hold off the advancing ISIS forces.

Militants had launched a push to seize Iraq's largest oil refinery, located near Baiji, but the attack was repelled.

The refinery provides up to 50% of Iraq's demand for petroleum products until it stopped production as Sunni fighters launched attacks on the site.

Jihadists from ISIS have overrun several towns and cities in the north of the country.

Security forces, who turned and ran when the invasion started, are struggling to hold ground.

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Passenger Dies As Gunmen Fire At Landing Plane

A woman passenger has been killed after gunmen opened fire at a plane landing at Peshawar airport in Pakistan.

Five bullets hit the Pakistan International Airlines aircraft as it was about to touch down at the airport in the country's volatile northwest.

A female passenger on board the plane died in hospital, said Mashood Tajwar, a spokesman for the airline.

Two other people were also wounded on board the flight, which was on its way from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia with more than 170 passengers on board.

Mr Tajwar told AFP: "The shots were fired from outside the airport, one lady passenger and two stewards were wounded, the woman later died in the hospital." 

Peshawar airport is in the volatile northwest of the country

Authorities were scouring the area around the airport to find whoever was responsible.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but suspicion is likely to fall on militants that the government has been fighting in the country's northwest.

On June 15, the military launched an operation against militants using the country's North Waziristan tribal area to attack targets in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

More than 300 people described by the government as militants have been killed.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured out of North Waziristan since the operation started.

People across Pakistan have been bracing for reprisal attacks ever since the operation started.

The operation came after the Pakistani Taliban and an Uzbek militant group attacked the hospital in the southern port city of Karachi.

During the audacious attack, gunmen battled with airport security and other law enforcement authorities for roughly five hours.

The mayhem at Pakistan's largest airport shocked the country and raised questions about the security of other airports around the country.

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The Seven Sins Of Bad Boy Striker Luis Suarez

The Liverpool striker is no stranger to controversy - with one incident leading him to be dubbed "the cannibal of Ajax".

Here are just a few of his misdemeanours:

Suarez described the handball as 'save of the tournament'

FEBRUARY 2007: He is sent off late on in his debut for Uruguay against Colombia after picking up a second yellow card for dissent.

Suarez dubbed the 'cannibal of Ajax'

JULY 2010: Suarez stopped a certain goal by Ghana in the World Cup quarter-final. He was sent off but Asamoah Gyan's penalty was saved and the Ghana lost the penalty shootout. After the match the striker said: "I made the save of the tournament."

NOVEMBER 2010:  He was dubbed the "cannibal of Ajax" after he bit PSV Einhoven's Otman Bakkal's shoulder in a Dutch league game. He was banned for seven matches.

Suarez refused to shake Evra's hand

OCTOBER 2011:  Alleged to have racially abused Manchester United's Patrice Evra during a Premier League match. He was later found guilty, banned for eight matches and fined £40,000.

FEBRUARY 2012: The Liverpool striker stirred up tensions after refusing to shake Evra's hand before their Premier League game at Old Trafford.

Liverpool striker munches on Ivanovic's arm

OCTOBER 2012: Celebrates a goal against Everton by diving in front of then manager David Moyes, who had earlier claimed that "divers" such as Suarez were putting fans off the game.

APRIL 2013: Suarez bit Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic's arm in a Premier League clash. He was banned for 10 games.

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Taliban Storms Sangin As US Troops Leave Base

Hundreds of Taliban fighters have reportedly swept into Afghanistan's Sangin district, just weeks after the last US troops left their post there.

More than 800 insurgents are believed to have been locked in a five-day battle with soldiers in the region, with 2,000 families forced to flee their homes.

Siddiq Siddiqi, a spokesman for Afghanistan's interior ministry, told the AFP news agency: "There was a major attack by the Taliban and their supporters.

"We're reinforcing Afghan national security forces and have suffered no major loss of territory.

"About 100 Taliban have been killed so far."

The number of dead was corroborated by the Iranian news agency Fars, which said 35 civilians had also been killed.

Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the Helmand provincial government, told AFP extra soldiers and police had been sent to restore security in Sangin, which has been a hotbed of violence throughout the 13-year battle in Afghanistan.

British forces suffered some of their heaviest losses of the entire war during a four-year mission in the region, with at least 100 soldiers killed during operations there.

An economic and transport hub, Sangin is strategically important for both the Taliban and the Afghan government.

It is home to vital power lines and some of Afghanistan's most fertile farmland.

The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force, known as Isaf, has fewer than 50,000 troops left in Afghanistan, including 32,800 from the US and 5,200 from the UK.

The last remaining British troops will leave within months, with Afghan authorities due to assume full responsibility for security by the end of the year.

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Rogen And Franco's Kim Jong-Un Film Is 'War'

North Korea has said the release of a Hollywood comedy about an assassination bid on leader Kim Jong-Un is an "act of war".

Pyongyang has threatened the US with a "resolute and merciless response" unless the authorities move to ban the film, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco.

The Interview - released in the US on October 14 - sees the actors playing two tabloid TV journalists who land an interview with Mr Kim in Pyongyang but are then tasked by the CIA with killing him.

In a statement carried by North Korea's official KCNA news agency, a foreign ministry spokesman said the film was the work of "gangster moviemakers" and should never be shown.

Seth Rogen (L) and director Evan Goldberg promote The Interview

The spokesman said: "The act of making and screening such a movie that portrays an attack on our top leadership ... is a most wanton act of terror and act of war, and is absolutely intolerable."

It is not the first time Hollywood has poked fun at a North Korean leader.

In 2004 satirical action comedy Team America, a puppet version of Mr Kim's father, Kim Jong-Il, was depicted as a speech-impaired, isolated despot.

In the official trailer for The Interview, a CIA officer calls North Korea the "most dangerous country on earth", and briefs the Rogen and Franco characters on the cult of personality surrounding the Kim family dynasty.

Kim Jong-Un's regime has threatened a "merciless" response

"Kim Jong-Un's people believe everything he tells them, including that he can speak to dolphins, or that he doesn't urinate or defecate," the officer says.

Played by Korean-American actor Randall Park, Mr Kim appears in the trailer as an overweight, cigar-chomping dictator, surrounded by security guards.

The scenes set in Pyongyang were filmed in Vancouver.

In a recent interview with Yahoo Movies, Rogen, who co-wrote the script, said the idea for the film came from a discussion over how journalists with access to world leaders might have the opportunity to act as assassins.

He said: "We read as much as we could that was available on the subject ... We talked to people in the government whose job it is to associate with North Korea, or be experts on it."

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Doctor Cleared After Helping Patients Die

A former doctor who gave lethal injections to seven terminally ill patients to help them die has been cleared over poisoning charges at a French court.

Nicolas Bonnemaison had faced life in prison over the allegations. His lawyer said the acquittal was "enormous" and would add weight to the debate raging in France over the legality of assisted suicide.

Relatives of Bonnemaison's patients testified on his behalf during the trial as calls to legalise assisted suicide gather pace. Euthanasia is illegal in Britain and France but lawful in Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Paul Lamb and Jane Nicklinson also argued for euthanasia to be legalised

Mr Bonnemaison's acquittal comes as Britain's Supreme Court declared a ban on assisted suicide, set out in the 1961 Suicide Act, to be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. 

Despite the ruling, the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal from two disabled men who had argued doctors should have a legal right to kill them if they so wished.

Jane Nicklinson, the widow of "locked-in syndrome" sufferer Tony Nicklinson, brought the case along with paralysed former builder Paul Lamb and another disabled man, known only as Martin, who want to make it legal for doctors to help end their patients' lives.

The court justices ruled against Ms Nicklinson and Mr Lamb by a seven-to-two majority; although five of them said they had the power to declare that a ban on assisted suicide breaches the right to private and family life.

Ms Nicklinson's with her former husband Tony who died in September 2012

The ruling suggests Britain should bring its law in line with the Human Rights Act.

The Supreme Court ruling and the acquittal of Dr Bonnemaison come as another court in France ruled doctors could withhold food and water from Vincent Lambert, who has been in a vegetative state for six years following a motorcycle accident.

It was argued Mr Lambert had communicated his wish to die in such circumstances before the accident that left him tetraplegic. 

But just hours later on Tuesday night, that decision was over-ruled by the European Court of Human Rights, which ordered France to continue to treat Mr Lambert until it had time to properly examine the case.

"He is not sick, he is not at the end of his life, he is not suffering," Jean Paillot, a lawyer for Mr Lambert's parents, told BFM television.

"From our perspective, there is no reason to stop feeding or hydrating him."

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Fifa: Suarez 'Must Face Severe Sanction'

Luis Suarez "must face a severe sanction" if he is found to have bitten an Italian player during a World Cup match, a senior Fifa official has told Sky News.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior official from international football's governing body said the Liverpool star "must face a severe sanction. If we allow this where will it stop?"

Fifa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Luis Suarez after he was accused of biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini.

The striker and the Uruguayan FA have until 9pm UK time to "provide their position and any documentary evidence they deem relevant".

Uruguay trained in Natal on Wednesday morning, but Suarez and his teammates who played against Italy were given a day off to rest.

Suarez has already commented on the incident, declaring: "These things happen on the pitch."

The Uruguay striker has previous after biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic

The striker clashed with Chiellini in the 79th minute of his country's Group D match, a game they won 1-0 to advance to the last 16.

Television replays show Suarez moving his head towards Chiellini and apparently sinking his teeth into his shoulder, with Chiellini responding by swinging his arm.

Defending the alleged attack, Suarez said: "We were both just inside the area, he struck me in the chest with his shoulder and he hit me in the eye as well.

"These are things that happen on the pitch and you shouldn't attach so much importance to them.

"I'm very happy to have qualified. We are taking each game as it comes, we know that we're in a difficult situation, we're at our limits now."

Speaking to Rai TV after the game, Chiellini said: "It was ridiculous not to send Suarez off.

Suarez was sent off for a notorious handball in South Africa in 2010

"It is clear, clear-cut and then there was the obvious dive afterwards because he knew very well that he did something that he shouldn't have done."

Article 77 of Fifa's disciplinary code allows it to hit players with retrospective bans of up to two years if it decides there is a case to answer.

Daily Mirror football writer Darren Lewis told Sky News' Sunrise programme he believes Suarez faces a lengthy international ban, but is likely to escape punishment that would prevent him from playing for Liverpool.

Both Adidas and betting firm 888poker - two of Suarez's key sponsors - have announced they are reviewing their relationship with the player following the alleged bite.

Suarez served a 10-match ban last year for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic.

Before his move to Liverpool in 2011, Suarez was suspended for seven matches by the Netherlands football federation after biting PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal when he played for Ajax.

He also received a eight-match ban in 2011 after the Football Association found he had racially abused Patrice Evra seven times during a game against Manchester United. He has never apologised to Evra.

Professor Cary Cooper from Lancaster University told Sky News that if the forward is found guilty in this latest incident, he should get professional help.

He said: "For anyone in a job who's behaved in an anti-social way, they should be helped - you go to a clinical psychologist, a counselling psychologist and they would try to unwrap why you do that, and then channel that in a more positive way."

He said any ban should also include an order or encouragement for Suarez to get help for his behaviour.

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