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Five people are dead after a hot-air balloon crashed Saturday morning in Albuquerque, N.M., police said.

The chief of the Department of Health has warned people of the danger of balloons, including the risk of fatality, after a case of a balloon exploding in Kanchanaburi province on December 5.

Siam Paragon has joined hands with the Tourism Authority of Thailand to bring a world-class balloon show from France to the mall from December 6-10.

The three-day International Balloon Festival is being held from Friday to Sunday at the Jiranakorn Stadium in Songkhla's Hat Yai district.

London - Critics of London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Saturday launched a big balloon caricaturing him in a yellow bikini "in retaliation" for the "Baby Trump" blimp he let fly over Westminster in July.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Thailand’s first and only International Balloon Festival, which will be held March 2-4 at the Cowboy Army Riding Club, Chiang Mai.

Buttree Puedpong, a taekwondo athlete who won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and her groom, Pen-Ek Karaket, who won a silver medal for taekwando in the 2010 Asian Games, joined 12 other couples who professed their love for each other in hot air balloons over Chiang Rai’s Muang district after being legally married on Valentine’s Day.

TAUNGGYI, Myanmar - The skies of central Myanmar were set ablaze this week with the beginning of the Taunggyi fire balloon festival, one of the most beautiful and dangerous celebrations in Asia.

SEVERAL provinces arranged special marriage ceremonies yesterday according to their own special views of Valentine’s Day.

Hot air balloons fly during the international Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons festival, in Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France.