18 h. ago 'Freakiest flight in history' and final words of attendant who tried to fly plane

Helios Flight 522 to Athens turned into a "flying tomb", with passengers and pilots passed out while the plane remained flying in the air before crashing in the mountains

Transport

56 h. ago Darth Vader’s lightsaber among movie props up for auction in Los Angeles

Weapon valued up to $3m and items from movies including Alien and Armageddon for sale in three-day online auctionIconic movie props from a galaxy far, far away, and from a search for the Holy Grail much closer to home, are for sale in a blockbuster auction in California featuring a trove of silver screen history.Darth Vader’s lightsaber from the final two films of the original Star Wars trilogy is the most valuable lot in the three-day online auction hosted by Propstore, a Los Angeles company specializing in movie memorabilia. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Britain's 'most hated mum' to throw £2,000 party when kids move out next month

Carla Bellucci's eldest kids Tanisha, 20, and Jayden, 18, will fly the nest in September to attend university and she plans to have a big bash to celebrate getting her life back

Economics

3 w. ago Flight attendant who was too stressed to fly wins discrimination claim over sacking

Jennifer Clifford had worked for British Airways for almost 40 years

Events

3 w. ago British Airways flight attendant wins discrimination claim after being fired for being unable to fly

Jennifer Clifford worked for the airline for almost 40 years

Events

4 w. ago Mektoub My Love: Canto Due review – gobsmackingly weird series drops another surreal sex shocker

Locarno film festivalBlue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest erotic melodrama delivers another heady dose of flirting, farce and bafflementSo here it is – the third but, incredibly, perhaps not the final episode in the most bizarre arthouse franchise in film history, and which, for its sheer melodramatic ker-aziness it commands attention. So, as it were, previously on Mektoub My Love The first film in the series from Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche, who had won the Cannes Palme d’Or for Blue Is the Warmest Colour (for which he was famously required to share the award with his two acting leads Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux), arrived in 2017. This first MML (called Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno) turned out to be an epic erotic summer romance set in the early 90s about a guy called Amin (Shaïn Boumedine) who comes back from Paris to his hometown of Sète, having abandoned his medical studies to follow his dream of being a screenwriter, and finds ...

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