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Passengers of a Vietjet flight bound for Hanoi, Vietnam faced a gruelling ordeal at Changi Airport's Terminal 4 on Dec 19, as the flight was reportedly ultimately cancelled after nearly five hours of delays.

One of the passengers, Stomp contributor Benjamin, shared with Stomp that flight VJ916 was originally scheduled to depart at 2.55pm.

In response to the extended wait, passengers were offered a light bite from Texas Chicken.

According to FlightAware, VietJet Air flight VJ916 operates daily from Singapore to Hanoi, but no flight was recorded on Dec 19.

The suspect was not known to German authorities as an Islamist, according to local broadcaster MDR.

Following the incident, police cleared an area surrounding the vehicle to investigate a possible explosive device, local broadcaster MDR reported.

Footage from a local broadcaster showed people wrapped in blankets on the ground receiving care in the wake of the attack.

Eight years ago, Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, rammed a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others.

Love them or hate them, one can't deny the power that influencers have on social media.

Naomi, 28, and Jianhao, 31, have retained their first and second positions respectively on the company's Social Media Influence 10 list.

The scores are calculated using Meltwater's Klear Score, an influencer management platform with a database of 30 million influencers globally.

At number one, lifestyle and mummy influencer Naomi scored 99 out of 100, according to Meltwater's evaluation, with this being the same score for her last year.

December is truly the holiday month with so many people jet-setting to and fro the world, and Singapore was a pitstop for local former actress Ivy Lee, as well as South Korean stars Lee Si-young, 2NE1's Dara and T-ara's Hyomin.

We also met aunt Lee Sul who lives in Singapore, rode a carousel and went to Gardens by the Bay.".

Yesterday, 2NE1's Dara and T-ara's Hyomin shared photos on their Instagram accounts of them attending the d'Alba event at Hotel Fort Canning on Dec 9.

Earlier today, 40-year-old Dara posted photos of her on a plane, writing about her 2NE1 bandmate CL (whose full name is Lee Chae-rin) on their flight to Singapore.

A charity group in Singapore has raised over $2.6 million to help children and families affected by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

A total of $2,608,717 was raised over the three-month period, said RLAF in a press release on Friday (Dec 20).

Some of the fundraiser activities included an event on Nov 17, which involved some 300 volunteers who collected donations from the public.

The minister added that Singapore remains committed to continue delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.

VATICAN CITY — An Israeli government minister criticised Pope Francis on Friday (Dec 20) for suggesting the international community should study whether Israel's military offensive in Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.

Israel says accusations of genocide in Gaza are baseless and that it is solely hunting down Hamas militants and other Palestinian armed groups.

"We should investigate carefully to assess whether this fits into the technical definition [of genocide] formulated by international jurists and organisations," the pope said.

Authorities in the Gaza Strip say more than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 107,000 injured in Israel's offensive, and most of the enclave's more than 2 million people are homeless or displaced.

SARAJEVO — A blanket of fog and smog descended on the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo this week, reducing daytime visibility to a few dozen metres and forcing residents indoors as pollution levels surged to hazardous levels.

Only India's capital New Delhi, which has 100 times more people than Sarajevo, clocked worse air quality on Wednesday, according to IQAir, which tracks pollution levels in cities across the world.

IQAir has consistently graded Sarajevo's air quality as "very unhealthy" or "hazardous" this week, two of its worst measures.

Mixed with fog, it can stick around for days, meaning the city often suffers with pollution in the winter.

The absence of this consumer is reflected in a decline in global luxury shoppers by 60 million to 355 million, analysts at RBC said.

In November, the average price of small leather goods at LVMH's Dior brand was down 21 per cent year on year, according to Luxurynsight data.

Meanwhile, Burberry's new CEO Joshua Schulman, introducing his turnaround plan for the British luxury label, stressed the broadening of the assortment of entry-level priced products, noting that pricing was pushed "too high across the board.".

Industry bellwether LVMH, however, cautioned against the risk of veering too far off brand, which could damage a label's exclusive aura.

Coldplay's Guy Berryman insists the band are "years away" from retirement.

But if somebody said to you, 'OK, start running and just don't stop,' it's quite hard to motivate yourself.".

I don't know where the songs come from.

I don't know where the ideas come from, but that's just been coming to me for about four or five years now.

This is part of the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) expanded Travel Smart Journeys programme, which is aimed to encourage passengers to travel outside of the morning peak period on weekdays.

The programme will also be expanded to include more bus services from Jan 2.

The minister also left the door open for the programme to be expanded beyond the NEL, reported the Straits Times.

Under the scheme's previous format, commuters who opted for seven eligible express bus services instead of the NEL between 7am and 9am were awarded points worth $1.50 per eligible trip.