23 m. ago ‘I saw people dying in front of my eyes’: British survivor of Air India flight 171 on his escape – latest updates

Narendra Modi visits crash site where hundreds died in Ahmedabad and meets Briton who was sole survivorRescue teams with sniffer dogs comb site of deadly crashThe Air India flight 171 crash – a visual guideHere are a couple of images coming in via the newswires:Gatwick airport posted on X that it could confirm the Air India flight AI171, which had been due to arrive at 6.25pm in London, had crashed on departure from Ahmedabad airport. It added that more information would follow. Continue reading...

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30 m. ago Heartbreak as youngest named victims of Air India crash so far are revealed to be in British family

Harrods brand ambassador Mariam Ali Syed, 35, her husband Javed - a hotel - and their children, Zayn, five, and Amani, four, died on the flight.

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39 m. ago Tributes as 'absolute warrior' Scots footballer dies following skin cancer battle

Charlie Watson, who had been fighting nodular malignant melanoma, has passed away at the age of 20.

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93 m. ago Miracle Brit Air India survivor saw green lights before stewardesses died in front of him

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, told of his shock of finding himself alive after the devastating Air India plane crash that killed 241 others including everyone else on board

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93 m. ago Sunjay Kapur dies of heart attack in London at 53: Cardiologist shares signs to watch out for | Health

Sunjay Kapur dies of heart attack in London at 53: Cardiologist shares signs to watch out for | Health - Hindustan Times  Hindustan Times

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98 m. ago Air India plane crash death toll rises as 'at least 8' people killed on ground

All but one of the 242 people on board the London-bound flight died as it crashed in west India

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1 hour ago Two women die after being pulled from popular Snowdonia wild swimming pools

North Wales Police are appealing for witnesses after two women were sadly pulled from water by rescuers - but they were sadly both pronounced dead at the scene

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1 hour ago Dad killed in Air India crash while scattering wife's ashes leaving 2 little girls orphaned

Father-of-two Arjun Patolia had travelled to India to carrying out his dying wife's final wish but his two young daughters have been left orphaned after he died in yesterday's tragic air disaster

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1 hour ago Horror moment teen girls surround man, 75, beating him to death while filming on phone

CCTV footage caught the moment Fredi Rivero, 75, was attacked by a group of three teenagers by a London bus stop - he was rushed to hospital where he later died

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1 hour ago Disabled girl who nearly died from stroke moments after birth says Metallica ‘saved her’

11-year old Sarah says listening to the heavy metal band makes her ‘feel safe’

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2 h. ago Young footballer Charlie Watson loses skin cancer battle after mum's harrowing sunbed warning

Charlie Watson, 19, sadly passed away on Thursday morning and had been playing with his club Threave Rovers as long as he could.

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2 h. ago Scotland's first black professor Sir Geoff Palmer dies aged 85 as tributes paid

Sir Geoff, chancellor and professor emeritus at Heriot-Watt University, moved to the UK from Jamaica as a teenager and became known as both an academic and a human rights advocate.

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3 h. ago How Prince William has upheld his promise to survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire after the shock of being heckled on his first visit with his grandmother

The late Queen and Prince William visited the site to speak with survivors, relatives of those who died, as well as volunteers and emergency services workers on June 16, 2017.

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3 h. ago Air India crash LIVE: Entire London families among 241 victims on Gatwick

At least 290 people are believed to have died in the devastating crash after the police hit housing used by medical workers

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3 h. ago One of two black boxes reportedly found in Air India crash that killed more than 260 people – latest updates

Narendra Modi visits crash sit where hundreds died in Ahmedabad; one man miraculously survives plane crashFull report: Briton is sole survivor of Air India plane crash that killed more than 260What we know so far about the Air India flight 171 crash – a visual guideHere are a couple of images coming in via the newswires:Gatwick airport posted on X that it could confirm the Air India flight AI171, which had been due to arrive at 6.25pm in London, had crashed on departure from Ahmedabad airport. It added that more information would follow. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Air India disaster: rescue teams with sniffer dogs comb site of deadly plane crash

Narendra Modi visits crash site in Ahmedabad where at least 265 people died, with one man aboard the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner miraculously survivingLatest news: one of two black boxes reportedly foundRescue teams with sniffer dogs were combing the crash site of a London-bound passenger jet that ploughed into a residential area of India’s Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground.One man aboard the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner – carrying 242 passengers and crew – miraculously survived Thursday’s crash, which left the tailpiece of the aircraft jutting out of the second floor of a hostel for medical staff from a nearby hospital. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Sadiq Khan meeting targeted by protesters after minicab driver caught in TfL licensing backlog chaos dies from heart attack

Veteran driver Rob Dale waited three months for a new licence. It finally arrived - 17 days after his death.

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5 h. ago South Carolina prepares for its 6th execution in 9 months with a man serving 2 death sentences

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months

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7 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says troops contesting Russian advance in Sumy

Ukrainian forces ‘pushing back the occupiers’ says president but prevailing assessments show Russian gains. What we know on day 1,206Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukrainian forces are pushing back against Russian forces in the border Sumy region where they have established a foothold in recent weeks. “Our units in Sumy region are gradually pushing back the occupiers,” said Ukraine’s president in his nightly video address. “I thank you! Thanks to every soldier, sergeant and officer for this result.”The Ukrainian president provided no further details and offered no proof of Ukrainian advances in the area, and the claim contradicts prevailing assessments of continued Russian gains in Sumy. Russia has seized over 190 sq km (73 sq miles) of the Sumy region in less than a month, according to pro-Ukrainian open-source maps. They have captured more ground in the past days, advancing to around 20km from the city of Sumy’s northern suburbs and rendering it vulnerable to long-range artillery an...

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9 h. ago Mike Love and John Stamos pay tribute to Beach Boys' Brian Wilson

Mike Love is looking back fondly on Brian Wilson, his cousin and Beach Boys collaborator who died Wednesday at 82

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