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10 passengers hurt as landing gear collapses and Flight 345 'nosedives' on to runway at New York LaGuardia airport
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Passengers and crew escape with minor injuries after landing incident
Silence of the ’grams: India’s telegraph offices go quiet after 160 years
Monday 15 July 2013
India’s telegram service has been withering for decades, to the extent that yesterday the last private messages were sent more than 160 years after the first. Yet for 24 hours it was like the good old days as hundreds of people visited the country’s 75 offices to send their final missives to friends and family, and staff holidays were cancelled to meet the demand.
Theatre review: The Grandfathers, The Shed, National Theatre
Wednesday 10 July 2013
National service ended fifty years ago in this country but, around the world, young men and women are still conscripted into their country's armed forces.
B&B and Beyond: Union Place, Whitby - bed down amid Georgian flair in North Yorkshire
Saturday 06 July 2013
This grand Grade II-listed property combines historic detail with modern touches. Tina Walsh settles in for the night
€1.3m stolen in armed raid on Venice boat
Monday 01 July 2013
Three armed robbers pulled up alongside a courier boat in a Venice lagoon and seized nearly €1.3m (£1.1m) in cash on Monday.
Sirena Seaways ferry left nearly 500 passengers stranded for three hours after crash at major British port in Essex
Saturday 22 June 2013
The 489 passengers above the Sirena Seaways ferry were left stranded for three hours as rescue officials worked to safely re-dock it.
Five-minute memoir: A rocky relationship sailing around the West Coast of Scotland
Saturday 22 June 2013
It was a restorative sail with a handsome captain. But then came trouble, says Alice Thompson.
Neal McDonald expects intense Route des Princes European tour
Friday 07 June 2013
Neal McDonald, crewing on Oman-Air Musandam in the Route des Princes European tour, talks to Stuart Alexander...
Alan Wood: Naval officer at Iwo Jima
Thursday 16 May 2013
Alan Wood, who died on 18 April at the age of 90, was a Second World War veteran who was credited with providing the flag in the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima. Others have claimed they provided the flag, but retired Marine Colonel Dave Severance, who commanded the company that took Mount Suribachi that day, confirmed recently that it was Wood. "I have a file of more than 60 people who claim to have had something to do with the flags," he said.
Five charged in Kensington and Chelsea 'trafficking' investigation
Thursday 16 May 2013
Five people have been charged following an investigation into alleged trafficking and a forced prostitution ring, police said today.
Arrogant, vain, self centred, no manners and ignorant: Former Manchester City kit man slams axed Roberto Mancini
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Manager attacked on day he is shown the exit at the Etihad
Italy cargo ship crash: Nine people feared dead after collision with Genoa port control tower
Wednesday 08 May 2013
Seven bodies recovered, two people still missing, and four injured
Paperback review: The Hairdresser of Harare, By tendai Huchu
Saturday 27 April 2013
Vimbai is the star hairdresser at a salon in Harare, until Dumisani, a handsome and skilful new recruit, steals the limelight.
TV review: Syria: Across the Lines - Channel 4 Dispatches
Thursday 18 April 2013
Israel: Facing the Future, BBC2
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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