Shakira's Private Plane Forced To Make Dramatic Emergency Landing

Pop superstar Shakira had a fright when her private plane suffered technical problems and had to stage an emergency landing.

The 41-year-old Colombian singer was not hurt in the incident in the city of Barranquilla, in the northern Colombian department of Atlantico.

She had just taken off to fly to the north-eastern Spanish city of Barcelona, to meet up with her footballer boyfriend Gerard Pique, 31, and their children, when the plane developed a problem.