18 m. ago Revealed: Air India pilots' final words to each other before disaster that killed 241

The final words shared by the pilots of the Air India crash, which tragically claimed the lives of 241 passengers on June 12, have been revealed, alongside fresh forensic details..

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23 m. ago Judge tells woman to leave boyfriend with 118 convictions after joint robbery spree

The judge told Sharon Deen she needed to leave Wayne Green as both were sentenced after robbing a Lloyds Pharmacy together in the West Midlands

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25 m. ago US man sentenced to 150 years in prison for starving daughter

Rodney McWeay, 33, has been sentenced for killing his four-year-old daughter by denying her food and water

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32 m. ago 90s telly legend eyes up Doctor Who role after BBC star steps down from iconic role

EXCLUSIVE: Children's TV legend Dave Benson Phillips has thrown his hat in the ring to be the next Doctor Who as he voices his future career hopes and shares a major health update

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58 m. ago M40 crash: Man, 27, killed as police hunt four who fled Mercedes on foot

Police are searching for two men and two women who fled a Mercedes on foot following a crash on the M40 after a 27-year-old man from High Wycombe died

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67 m. ago ‘Why did he cut off?’: what the report on the Air India Flight 171 crash found

Main points from the preliminary report on the 12 June crash in which 260 people diedA preliminary report from investigators looking at the Air India Flight 171 crash, which killed 260 people on 12 June, has been published. Continue reading...

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71 m. ago Revealed: Air India pilots' final words to each other before crash that killed 241

The final words shared by the pilots of the Air India crash, which tragically claimed the lives of 241 passengers on June 12, have been revealed, and it may hold a vital clue.

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79 m. ago Six of the most unique Airbnbs in the US revealed, from a missile launch site to a giant shoe

From Texas to Nevada, these are some of the most eye-catching and unique vacation rentals in the United States

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87 m. ago Air India crash updates: Victims’ families stunned after report says fuel switches cut off before plane went down

London Gatwick-bound flight came down in Ahmedabad last month killing total of 260 people

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1 hour ago Air India crash report reveals chilling exchange between pilots

One of the pilots transmitted “MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY” before plane crashed into a building killing hundreds

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1 hour ago Gaza truce talks stall as 28 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight

Sources say the talks are faltering over the extent of Israeli forces' withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave

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2 h. ago UN says fuel shortage in Gaza at ‘critical levels’ – Middle East crisis live

A lack of fuel means ‘lifelines will vanish for 2.1 million people’, the UN saidIsraeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including four children, hospital officials said on Saturday, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The four children and two women were among at least 13 people who were killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes pounded the area starting late on Friday, officials in Al-Aqsa Martyr’s hospital said.Another four people were killed in strikes near a fuel station, and 15 others died in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Nasser hospital. The Israeli military said in a statement that over the past 48 hours, troops struck approximately 250 targets in the Gaza Strip, including militants, booby-trapped structures, weapons storage facilities, anti-tank missile launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels and additional Hamas infrastructure sites. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Nato scrambles jets as Russia launches most intense drone and missile blitz of the war

Russia is believed to have launched up to 30 missiles and 700 military drones in a major escalation overnight

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2 h. ago Nato scrambles jets as Russia launches one of the most intense drone and missile blitzes of the war

Russia is believed to have launched up to 30 missiles and 700 military drones in a major escalation overnight

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2 h. ago Man 'beheaded' his mother after 'kneeling on her neck' until she died

Bowen Fladland admitted to killing his 70-year-old mother Marlene in South Dakota before cutting off her head and burying her body in the garden of the home they had been living in

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3 h. ago 28 Palestinians including children killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

Hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 Palestinians in Gaza including four children

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3 h. ago ‘You don’t get a second chance at a shot like this – horses wander off’: Mike Wells’s best phone picture

The former World Press Photo of the Year winner on why capturing a good image remains instinctive in the age of mobile photography‘Scrambling to catch this shot felt like 3D chess,” says photographer Mike Wells. “My eyes were balancing Connemara’s famous mountains, its wild ponies and the stone walls, while my mind computed the variables: the rush to catch the last rays of evening sun, that moment when a sea breeze lifts the ponies’ manes, and whichever way they will amble next.”In 1981, Wells won the World Press Photo of the Year for an image shot in Uganda depicting a malnourished boy’s hand resting in the palm of a Catholic priest. “When I was working in the 1970s and 80s, unless you could afford a motor drive for your camera, you often got just one chance at the critical shot,” Wells says. “You could never tell whether you really had captured the moment until you got back from Africa, or at least out of the darkroom. That image wasn’t well lit or well composed, ju...

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4 h. ago Teacher didn't tell primary school she was dating paedo 'because he was in prison'

Year 1 teacher Leanne Till, 36, has been banned from the classroom indefinitely after failing to tell bosses at her school that her partner was a convicted child sex offender

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4 h. ago Revealed: Air India pilots' final words to each other before crash that killed 241 people on board

The final words shared by the pilots of the Air India crash, which tragically claimed the lives of 241 passengers on June 12, have been revealed, and it may hold a vital clue.

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4 h. ago Superman is super woke? How politics play into the new man of steel

The right has already branded the new DC tentpole too woke after its director called the character an immigrant, but just what role do real-world issues play in the film?Superman Woke! Variations on that headline splashed across all manner of non-Daily Planet websites this week in advance of a new Superman movie reboot, specifically the comments of writer-director James Gunn, who casually characterized the character as an immigrant and, as such, telling the “story of America” in an interview. This rankled rightwingers including the former TV Superman Dean Cain, who acknowledged Superman as an immigrant but blanched at the idea of actively associating that as an American value, noting that “there have to be limits”.Meanwhile, the former Trump lackey Kellyanne Conway, now a Fox News host, characterized the movie she hasn’t seen as an ideological lecture, and added her supposed anger that the movie’s star, David Corenswet, elided the old “truth, justice and the American way” Superman s...

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