16 h. ago Jet ski tourist miraculously rescued after three days lost at sea near Canary Islands

Layonel Ramirez Collado, 27, was out on a boat with friends near the town of Juan Grande in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, when his jet ski came loose and he jumped in after it, promising his friends he would follow them to the shore

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19 h. ago Jet ski rider found ALIVE by plane three days after vanishing off Canary Islands

Layonel Ramirez Collado, 27, was left floating towards the Atlantic ocean after being cut adrift off the Canary Islands - he was found three days later after waving to a plane passing overhead

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43 h. ago Jet skier is rescued after spending three days adrift off Canary Islands when currents dragged him out to sea after night time boat trip with friends

23-year-old Layonel Ramirez Collado had been missing since Monday night off the coast of San Bartolomé de Tirajana after a night out with friends that went disastrously wrong.

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3 d. ago Travel insiders reveal how to get to the Canary Islands without taking a flight

Travel firm Byway has mapped out a route to the Canaries solely by train and ferry. It takes 17 days and costs a pretty penny, but the journey takes passengers through some stunning parts of France and Spain at a leisurely pace

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5 d. ago Indonesia school collapse: 91 missing and three dead as rescuers search rubble for second day

Desperate search for more than 90 missing after building collapses while students held prayers at school in SidoarjoParents and rescuers in Indonesia were desperately searching for dozens of teenage boys believed to be trapped, a day after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school which has already left three dead, authorities said.Authorities said 91 people were listed as missing after the Al Khoziny school building collapsed while pupils held late afternoon prayers in a mosque housed on a lower floor of a building whose upper floors were under construction. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Royal Caribbean cruise ship rescues dozen of people lost at sea

A vessel, called Enchantment of the Seas, changed its scheduled courseon September 28, dodging hurricane Humberto and tropical storm Imelda.

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6 d. ago UK tourists visiting Canary Islands this winter issued warning

As the EU launches strict entry requirements from next month, the Canary Islands are set to be particularly impacted

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6 d. ago Airport in Canary Islands forced to cancel and divert flights due to drones

It comes as drone sightings have spiked at airports across Europe

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7 d. ago Mystery drones now spark chaos in Spain as flights diverted from Fuerteventura after days of incursions across Europe

FLIGHTS have been diverted from an airport in the Canary Islands after drones were spotted - as incursions continue to spark chaos in Europe. Three planes packed with holidaymakers were turned away from the airport in Fuerteventura. According to reports, drones flying near the airport - which connects to more than 80 destinations - meant...

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1 week ago Brand new day for Atlético as Julián Alvarez tees up derby with dramatic rescue | Sid Lowe

Atlético Madrid needed their own superhero in the win over Rayo, but next comes a derby they cannot lose“Football is fantastic,” Diego Simeone said, which he could say by then. All night he had watched Marcos Llorente fly up the wing; for the last half an hour he had watched his son do so too, all clenched jaw and bulging veins, stuck on fast forward, a determination so intense it looked like he might explode. Now it was the Atlético Madrid manager’s turn, who had literally been on his knees for much of the night, sprinting up the touchline in his black suit and shiny shoes, screaming and let loose again. Simeone had been here before, a week earlier, when he had admitted that Atlético’s victory had brought relief not joy. This was even wilder: five goals, four of them belters, and 54,098 people losing their heads.Simeone especially. Six weeks into the season and for the sixth time, Atlético had scored first; for the fifth time, though, they weren’t going to win. Worse, this time the...

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1 week ago 23 miners rescued after nearly two days trapped in collapsed gold mine

Families of the trapped miners had maintained a vigil for hours, celebrating the successful rescue with tears and cheers

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1 week ago Where is hot in October? Best European destinations for autumn breaks with £13 flights

Cyprus, Malta, the Canary Islands, Sicily and Sardinia are just some of the European destinations that deliver warm weather during the autumn and plenty of things to do

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1 week ago Brit who moved to Lanzarote reveals the holiday hotspot's 'biggest tourist problem' and urges holidaymakers to stop doing it as it's 'ruining' the island

David Gainford, better known online as Mr TravelON, is now based in the Canary Islands and shares his thoughts on tourism in the region.

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2 w. ago Jay Slater's 'biggest mistake' as his final steps retraced on night he vanished

Jay Slater, 19, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was on holiday with friends in Tenerife, in the Spanish Canary Islands, when he vanished after a night out in July last year

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2 w. ago London mayor says traffic ban trial is start of ‘fightback to rescue Oxford Street’

Sadiq Khan hails one-day closure of half-mile stretch to traffic as ‘glimpse to what the future could be like’The mayor of London has said a one-day trial banning traffic from part of Oxford Street marks “the day the fightback began to rescue this street”.Sadiq Khan visited the street, where vehicles were prohibited from accessing a half-mile stretch of the road from Oxford Circus to Orchard Street between noon and 8pm on Sunday for the event called This is Oxford Street. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘I was terrified of dying’: how one man survived 40 hours adrift in the sea

Rafie Nadi, 23, was rescued off Spain’s coast after nearly two days floating with only an inflatable ring and flippersFor more than 40 hours he floated in the Mediterranean, buoyed only by an inflatable ring and flippers. Gripped by fear and disheartened by the handful of vessels that had passed by him, Rafie Nadi, 23, was kept from slipping under by a jumble of hopes. Five years earlier, he had set off from Egypt to help provide for his family; now he desperately prayed he would finally make it to Europe and live to see his mother again.His rescue in July made headlines around the world. Dehydrated, exhausted and his skin burning from overexposure to sun and seawater, he could be seen in video clips collapsed on a ship’s deck, barely able to move or talk, after he was pulled from the water by a family sailing to the Balearic Islands. Their boat was met at sea by a maritime rescue service vessel, which took him to port in Málaga and handed him over to police and the Red Cross. Conti...

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2 w. ago 'Nothing can be done to save my £1m house from falling into the sea': Widow, 88, says she now faces living in a tent as her clifftop home is lost to erosion

Jean Flick, 88, has lived in the seaside property in Thorpeness, Suffolk, for 25 years and hopes to stay in her home for as long as it is safe to do so.

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2 w. ago 'Nothing can be done to save my £1m house from falling into the sea': Widow, 88, says she now faces living in a tent as her clifftop home lost to erosion

Jean Flick, 88, has lived in the seaside property in Thorpeness, Suffolk, for 25 years and hopes to stay in her home for as long as it is safe to do so.

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2 w. ago Widow, 88, says 'nothing can be done' to stop home being lost to sea

Jean Flick said it was looking likely she'd lose her home of 25 years

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2 w. ago UK holidaymakers urged to 'close windows' in Canary Islands as alert issued

The Canary Islands government has declared a state of pre-alert as dust clouds are forecast.

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