Japanese F-2 fighter jets were scrambled, as the Russian Su-27 planes flew south over the Sea of Japan before turning back to the north, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.

BBC: Russian fighter jets 'breach Japan airspace'

On the final day of Benedict's pontificate, Dolan stood with seminarians on the roof of the North American College and waved as a helicopter flew overhead, carrying the departing pope to what will be his temporary retirement home, the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo.

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Mr. Recchion and two other jurors flew to New York from North Carolina on Thursday night within hours of leaving the courthouse.

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He attached a camera to a remote control helicopter and flew across the new build apartment blocks of North Peckham estate, filming the journeys once taken by residents along the now-demolished elevated walkways that linked tower block to tower block.

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Police in north-west England flew quickly to India this week to talk to the parents of Anuj Bidve, a student killed in Salford on December 26th.

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