United Airline Slides Off Albany Runway

A United Airlines plane slid off a runway, Saturday night.

It happened in Albany, New York, as the plane was taxiing, before heading to Chicago.

Light snow had been falling all day and the plane slipped right off the runway, into a snow bank.

None of the sixty-five passengers or crew were injured, in the incident.

They were, however, bused back to the terminal and had to wait for a new place.

No other delays took place at the airport.

The plane has been removed from the snow bank and will be investigated, before further use.

Earlier Saturday, a Russian airliner went off a Moscow runway, killing four.

Explosion in Karachi Kills 5

Five people were killed and fifty more injured when a bomb exploded on a bus.

The explosion happened in Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday.

Nearby buildings, vehicles, and people were all hit by the bus, which had just left the Cantonment Railway Station.

Fires burned for some time, before all of them could be extinguished.

No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, and it is not clear if it was a suicide bomber, or not.

Russian Airline Crash Kills 4

A Russian airliner skidded off it's runway and crashed into a highway, on Saturday.

As it slid, it split into three separate pieces.

Luckily there were no passengers aboard, but sadly four of it's twelve crew members were killed in the crash.

Part of the Vnukovo airport, as well as the highway, were closed while the investigation and clean up took place.

The plane was a Tu-204, about the size of 757, and was operated by Red Wings, a Russian carrier.

This was the first major accident for the Tu-204s, which were produced in the 1990s.

French Tax on Rich Deemed Discrimination

Hollande

French President Francois Hollande's plans have run into a slight problem.

Much like US President Obama, he had proposed and strongly supported a higher tax rate on the rich.

Hollande's plan would have added a seventy-five percent tax rate for those who make more than one million euros a year.

Parliament had approved the tax, in September, and it had already been calculated into the 2013 budget.

However, on Saturday, the Constitutional Council decided that such a tax "failed to recognise equality before public burdens".

According to them, because the tax singled out individuals, it was a form of discrimination.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault stated that the government will still go ahead with the new tax rate, adding "the government will propose a new system that conforms with the principles laid down by the decision of the Constitutional Council".

China Requires People to Visit Elderly Parents

China passed new legislation, on Friday, that requires people visit their elderly parents, "often".

Under the new law, parents who feel neglected or abandoned can sue their children, for not visiting them enough.

The law does not say just how often "often" is.

It was made as an attempt to bring back the importance that family once had, for the Chinese.

Very few assisted living and retirement home options are available, in China, leaving the elderly dependent upon family or charity.