At least 18 children were wounded by flying glass and shrapnel in the mortar bomb attack.

BBC: Lebanon condemns school shelling

Jack Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown became the first men to cross the Atlantic by air in June 1919, flying in a Vickers Vimy biplane, its bomb bays filled with extra fuel.

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Dutch and US authorities have been on alert since a Nigerian man was detained in the US on Christmas Day 2009 after flying from Amsterdam to Detroit and charged with trying to detonate a bomb.

BBC: Yemenis on US flight held over terror alert

Until now, China, South Korea and Japan have all been happy to prop up Mr Kim with dollops of aid, so long as he refrained from doing rash things: testing a bomb, for example, or another of his far-flying missiles.

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The Syrian military denied there was any weapons convoy and said low-flying Israeli jets had crossed into their country over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to bomb a scientific research center near Damascus.

NPR: Syria Threatens Retaliation For Israeli Airstrike

He concealed a bomb made of PETN in his sneakers when he tried to bring down an American Airlines flight flying from Paris, France, to Miami, Florida, almost exactly eight years ago during the busy holiday travel season.

CNN: Analysis: Similar explosive on plane used in Saudi attack