GLOBAL SNAPSHOT

Pitt warns Jolie

LOS ANGELES: Brad Pitt has hit out at estranged wife Angelina Jolie for revealing private information about their children. In the latest instalment of the pair’s increasingly bitter custody battle, the 53-year-old Ocean’s

Eleven star asked a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to seal records relating to their children on privacy grounds. “(Angelina) exposed the children by making public the names of their therapists and other mental health professionals,” Pitt stated in the new memorandum, according to People magazine.

Chopper for Queen

LONDON: The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have flown to Sandringham by helicopter after cancelling plans to travel by train because of heavy colds. The chopper landed at Buckingham Palace on Thursday to collect the couple for the hour-long journey. Sources said although Philip, 95, was the worse of the two on Wednesday, the Queen, 90, was now feeling poorly but was determined not to miss her traditional Christmas break.

Balloonatic flight

CALGARY: A Canadian “balloonatic” has been forced to shell out after a stunt in which he flew over Calgary in a garden chair attached to 110 large helium balloons. Daniel Boria, 27, was ordered to pay a $5100 fine and donate $20,500 to charity after pleading guilty to the dangerous operation of an aircraft. Boria, dubbed a “balloonatic” by prosecutor Matt Dalidowicz, reached an altitude of more than 2km.

Payout for tot deaths

PITTSBURGH: IKEA has paid out more than $68 million in compensation to the families of three toddlers who were crushed to death under topheavy chests of drawers. The toddlers were all killed from 2014-15 in separate incidents involving the flatpack furniture giant’s Malm range. Following the accidents IKEA recalled some 29 million dressers after they were found to be likely to topple if not secured to a wall.

Brothers detained

DUISBURG: Two Kosovo-born brothers have been detained on suspicion they were planning to carry out an attack on a mall in western Germany, days after a truck attack in Berlin that killed 12 people. Police said the men, aged 28 and 31, were detained in Duisburg shortly after midnight. Officials suspect the two men may have been planning an attack on Centro mall in nearby Oberhausen. They are now probing what the pair’s intentions were and whether anyone else was involved. Centro is one of Germany’s biggest malls.