Deadly fire at Turkey ski resort hotel A day of mourning is under way in Turkey for the 76 victims of a fire that engulfed a popular ski resort hotel in the country’s north-west. The fire broke out at the wooden-clad 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a…
Just hours before the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, Jack Bech got on a phone call with his older brother Martin – an avid outdoorsman and former football star mostly known to friends and teammates as “Tiger”. Jack, 22, was in Dallas visiting family members, while Tiger, a 28-year-old former Princeton alumnus who…
Michelle Bech A well-known American college football player, a young aspiring nurse and a mother of a four-year-old are among the victims of the New Year’s day attack in New Orleans in which at least 15 people were killed. Their names are being released by families and relatives before authorities complete post-mortem examinations. Here’s what…
A fund created by the US government to help compensate victims of the late fraudster Bernard Madoff has begun making its final round of payments, according to a statement by the Department of Justice (DoJ). The payouts being made by the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) are worth $131.4m (£104.6m) and are set to bring the…
Getty Images France is to hold a day of national mourning after Cyclone Chido devastated its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte earlier this month. French President Emmanuel Macron called for the nationwide remembrance during his visit to the island last week – where he was jeered by some islanders who criticised the slow delivery of…
A passerby recalled the horrific Tesla car crash that killed four Indians in Canada and said that the victims were trying to break the window glass and come out of the burning vehicle. “I did everything I could,” he told a Canadian media house. File photo of a Tesla vehicle involved in a crash. (REUTERS)…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interrupted by family members of victims at a memorial event for October 7 Hamas attacks. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog attend a memorial ceremony of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year that sparked the ongoing…
