Jet meets turbulence

AN American Airlines jet encountered severe air turbulence shortly after taking off from Seoul, South Korea, prompting an unscheduled landing at Narita International Airport in Tokyo yesterday after 14 people asked for medical attention.

U.S. soldier jailed

AN American soldier who abandoned his unit to join the French Foreign Legion has been sentenced by the U.S. military to four years in prison, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Second Lieutenant Lawrence Franks told a court that he had been struggling with suicidal urges and that the arduous regimen of the legion was the only way to escape his crippling depression.

Taliban massacre

THE death toll from an attack at the Army Public School and College in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday has risen to 148 yesterday. It was the deadliest slaughter of innocents in the country in recent years.