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British technology tycoon Mike Lynch and five others are feared to have died, with their bodies trapped inside a luxury yacht which sank in a tornado. Vincenzo Zagarola of the Italian Coastguard said this was the working theory of officials on Sicily because it is believed the boat sank quickly and search and rescue efforts by sea and air have so far delivered no results. He told the PA news […]

The King will sit down with survivors of the fatal Southport knife attack and their families during a visit to Merseyside. Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, were killed in the attack which was followed by rioting in Southport and across the country. The disorder included looting with hotels housing asylum seekers also attacked before counter demonstrations appeared to quell the disturbances. The violence, denounced […]

The search for British technology tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter has resumed after a luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of Sicily. They are among six tourists missing after the yacht, named Bayesian, was battered during intense storms off the coast of Palermo in the early hours of Monday. Four of the missing passengers are British and two are American. The BBC reported that Morgan Stanley […]

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it has recovered the bodies of six hostages taken in Hamas’s October 7 attack that started the war in Gaza, as US and Arab mediators tried to advance an agreement to halt the fighting and release scores of other militant-held captives. The military said its forces recovered the bodies in an overnight operation in southern Gaza, without saying when or how the six […]

Jamie Vardy rolled back the years to terrorise Tottenham again and earn Leicester a 1-1 draw in their Premier League opener. Spurs were ahead at half-time thanks to Pedro Porro’s 29th-minute header after a one-sided first 45 at King Power Stadium. It was a different story after the break though with veteran Vardy able to punish slack away marking in the 57th-minute to earn Steve Cooper a point in his […]

A man has been arrested after a woman died and two others were seriously hurt in a triple stabbing in Manchester. The 43-year-old woman died at the scene after being found with stab wounds at a property in Barnard Road, Gorton, at about 11.20pm on Sunday. A 17-year-old girl and a 64-year-old man were also injured and taken to hospital, where their conditions have been described as life-threatening. A 22-year-old […]

A blue supermoon will light up the sky on Monday, in a rare event that is expected to be one of the biggest and brightest moons of the year. A blue moon is not named after the colour, but for the timing of full moons during the year. Blue moons usually occur about every two or three years, but unusually in 2018 there were two blue moons, only two months […]

Crowds of activists began gathering in Chicago for protests outside the Democratic National Convention on Monday, hoping to call attention to issues such as economic injustice, reproductive rights and the war in Gaza. Protesters say their plans have not changed since President Joe Biden left the race and the party quickly rallied behind vice president Kamala Harris, who will formally accept the Democratic nomination this week. Activists are ready to […]

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has personally thanked police officers who were injured during recent disorder, for their service. During a visit to Belfast on Monday, the Prime Minister also met representatives from minority ethnic communities who had been targeted in violence in which a number of businesses were destroyed and a mosque attacked. At least 20 police officers were injured in a spate of violent incidents in early August […]