Lakshmi Patel BBC Gujarati, Ahmedabad Samira Hussain BBC News, Ahmedabad Air India crash survivor attends funeral of brother who didn’t make it The British man who was the sole survivor of last week’s Air India plane crash has helped lay his brother to rest at a funeral in western India. Vishwashkumar Ramesh’s brother Ajay was...
Mike Wendling BBC News Reporting fromMinneapolis Yvette Hoffman / Facebook Yvette and John Hoffman A survivor of Saturday’s deadly attacks on two Minnesota lawmakers says she and her husband are both “incredibly lucky to be alive” after they were hit by 17 bullets. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were gunned down at...
The crash of London-bound Air India flight 171 in Ahmedabad dominates the Friday headlines. The Sun leads with the “miracle Brit in seat 11A”, the seat of Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a father from Leicester who was the only survivor of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash which killed all the other 241 passengers and crew on...
Neyaz Farooquee & Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, Delhi and London Verified video shows the Air India plane descending before deadly crash An Air India plane travelling from India to London crashed within moments of take-off on Thursday, killing 241 passengers and crew, and more people on the ground. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which took off...
Russian activist Lyudmila Vasilyeva, an 84-year-old survivor of the siege of Leningrad in World War Two, has been fined by a court after protesting Russia’s war in Ukraine. During her sentencing hearing in St Petersburg on Friday, Ms Vasilyeva was ordered to pay 10,000 rubles ($126; £93) for “discrediting” the Russian army. The charges related...
The only surviving guest of the deadly beef wellington lunch at the heart of a high-profile Australian court says he and his wife had been “very happy” to get an invitation to the gathering. Ian Wilkinson was left seriously ill after the meal, which led to the deaths of his wife and two other relatives....
Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, has died by suicide aged 41, her family has confirmed to the BBC. They said in a statement on Friday that “the toll of abuse” became too heavy in a statement confirming her death. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of...
Basillioh Rukanga & Alfred Lasteck BBC News, Nairobi & Dar es Salaam AFP Tundu Lissu faces treason charges Shot 16 times in an assassination attempt in 2017, Tindu Lissu is the great survivor of Tanzanian politics – and one of its most persecuted politicians. But some are asking whether he has now reached the the...
Thomas Mackintosh & Tom Symonds BBC News Greater Manchester Police Hashem Abedi left prison officers at HMP Frankland in hospital with serious injuries following an attack on Saturday A Manchester Arena bombing survivor has said he is angry, disgusted and broken after the bomber was able to attack three prison guards at a high-security unit...
Elliot Ball BBC News, South West John Acres BBC Radio Devon Andrew Hood Andrew Hood ran 34-miles between Oxford Train Station and Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington “Without [Jeremy] Clarkson, without [Richard] Hammond, without [James] May, there is a good chance I would not be talking now.” Andrew Hood, from North Devon, was diagnosed with...
Santiago Vanegas BBC News Mundo Carwin Javie Molleja Carwin and his mother, Carmin, were celebrating seeing each for the first time in three years when they were caught up in the nightclub disaster At 01:00 on Tuesday morning Carwin Javie Molleja was dancing with his mother in Santo Domingo’s Jet Set nightclub when he noticed...
BBC Paramedic Munther Abed survived the attack that killed 15 emergency workers by diving to the floor in the back of his ambulance “I’m the only survivor who saw what happened to my colleagues,” Munther Abed says, scrolling through pictures of his fellow paramedics on his phone. He survived the Israeli attack that killed 15...
Hanley’s been doing it for a while now. Before Scotland’s double-header against Croatia and Portugal in mid-October, he had played two minutes of club football – against Derby in a 3-2 defeat – in the previous six weeks. He played 90 against Croatia in a 2-1 loss and another 90 against Portugal in 0-0 draw....