A British man has died after he was buried by an avalanche at a ski resort in the French Alps, local officials have said. The man, 27, was near the roadside at the Val Thorens resort when he was swept up and carried 15 metres (50ft) by snow on Thursday morning, a local prosecutor said....
A British woman who was among four people killed in a cable car crash near Naples has been named by Italian officials as Margaret Elaine Winn. A second Briton killed in the accident has been identified by authorities but not yet named. The mountain cable car cabin plunged to the ground after one of the...
More than 400 people have been killed in recent attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan’s Darfur region, says the UN citing “credible sources”. Last week, the RSF launched an intense ground and aerial assault on refugee camps surrounding the city of El-Fasher in an attempt to seize the last state capital...
Five children were killed or wounded in a US strike on a ceramics factory on Sunday. The U.S. has killed over 100 people in Yemen in less than a month of bombardments, Yemen health officials say, killing dozens of civilians as the Trump administration escalates its attacks on the region. The Yemen Health Ministry reported...
A private plane carrying six people crashed in an open field in upstate New York on Saturday, killing all on board, authorities say. Among those on board were celebrated former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) football player Karenna Groff, her parents and her brother, according to a family statement. The US National Transportation Safety Board...
A high school student from Wisconsin killed his parents as part of a larger plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump, the FBI has said. Nikita Casap, 17, has been charged with the killing of his mother, Tatiana Casap, 35, and his stepfather Donald Mayer, 51, who were found dead at their home on 28...
At least 32 people have been killed and 84 injured, including ten children, after a Russian attack on the centre of Sumy, according to Ukrainian authorities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the “terrible strike by Russian ballistic missiles” hit an “ordinary city street, ordinary life” adding that, without strong pressure, “Russia will continue to drag...
A man has died in a explosion which destroyed a house and led to evacuations. Multiple homes in John Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, were evacuated and emergency services were called to the scene on Saturday evening, just before 20:00 BST. On Sunday, police confirmed the body of a man, in his 50s, had been found in...
The emergency services in Ukraine say at least 21 people have been killed and dozens of others have been wounded in a Russian ballistic missile strike on the north-eastern city of Sumy. The city lies around 30 miles (48km) from the Russian border. Posting on his Telegram channel, President Zelensky says Russia hit the centre...
More than 100 civilians, among them at least 20 children and a medical team working for a humanitarian charity, have been killed in a series of attacks beginning on Friday in Sudan’s western Darfur region, the UN has said. The assaults – on the city of el Fasher and two nearby camps housing people forced...
A notorious bandit kingpin and 100 of his suspected followers have been killed in a joint military operation in north-west Nigeria, authorities say. Gwaska Dankarami was said to have been a high-value target who reportedly served as second-in-command to an Islamic State-linked leader. The alleged gang leader had been hiding in the Munumu Forest, with...
The family of one of the three teenagers killed in a crash involving a car and a bus near Heathrow Airport on 31 March, have said they are “completely devastated” at their loss. They have been named by police as 17-year-old Star Tomkins, 18-year-old Harley Woods and 17-year-old Jimmy Savory. Metropolitan Police officers found both...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Royal Society of Biology Alessandro Coatti worked for the Royal Society of Biology in London Tributes have been paid to a London-based scientist who formerly worked for the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) after he was found murdered in northern Colombia. Alessandro Coatti’s remains were discovered on the outskirts of Santa...
“They were scattered and torn into pieces,” a witness said of a family killed by the strike. The strike on Yemen that was celebrated by Trump administration officials in a now-infamous leaked Signal chat killed a newborn baby and charred and killed a 5-year-old boy, according to new witness testimony of the strike. In a...
A Palestinian-American teenager has been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say. Omar Mohammed Saada Rabea, 14, was shot on the outskirts of Turmus Ayya on Sunday evening along with two other 14-year-old boys, one of whom was seriously wounded. The other suffered minor wounds. The Israeli military said its...