Nepal This article is more than 1 year oldNepal plane crash with 72 onboard leaves at least 68 deadThis article is more than 1 year oldForeign nationals from Australia, France, Britain and India among the passengers onboard
At least 68 people were confirmed dead and hope faded for any survivors after a plane with 72 onboard crashed in Nepal, the Himalayan country’s deadliest aviation disaster in three decades.
“Thirty-one [bodies] have been taken to hospitals,” said police official, AK Chhetri, adding that another 36 were still in the 300-metre gorge the aircraft plunged into at the site in Pokhara in central Nepal. Read More...
Espionage This article is more than 9 months oldThis article is more than 9 months oldPair of suspected ‘illegals’ are thought to have been a married couple living separate lives in Brazil and Greece
Halfway through a trip to Malaysia in January, Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich stopped messaging his girlfriend back home in Rio de Janeiro and she promptly launched a frantic search for her missing partner.
A Brazilian of Austrian heritage, Campos Wittich ran a series of 3D printing companies in Rio that made, among other things, novelty resin sculptures for the Brazilian military and sausage dog key chains. Read More...
OpinionCoronavirus This article is more than 2 years oldRory Kinnear: On the day of No 10’s lockdown party, I buried my sisterThis article is more than 2 years oldRory KinnearPain like ours was tearing through families the world over. It felt like we were all in it together. Not all of us, it turned out
Without wishing to sound like an episode of Poirot, I remember well what I was doing on the evening of 20 May 2020, when more than 100 people were invited to a BYOB party in the prime minister’s garden, “to make the most of the lovely weather”. Read More...