FRANCE: Court finds Continental Airlines responsible for Concorde crash With our correspondents in Paris. US airline Continental has been found criminally responsible for the fatal 2000 Concorde crash. The crash killed 113 people and bought the era of supersonic passenger flights to an abrupt end. A French court on Monday found Continental Airlines and one [...]
SEVEN AMATEUR cyclists out for a morning ride were killed yesterday near Lamezia Terme in Calabria when they were hit head-on by an oncoming car that had misjudged an overtaking manoeuvre. Initial reports suggest that the car, a powerful Mercedes driven by 21-year-old Chafik Elktrani, went out of control while travelling at high speed. Mr [...]
The man accused of killing four people, including a 2-year-old, in the Mattapan section of Boston, Massachusetts was in a courtroom this morning. Dwayne Moore was arraigned on murder and other charges. Not guilty pleas were entered on his behalf. Dwayne Moore hid in a back room, while he was formally charged with murdering two-year-old [...]
A Saudi prince was found guilty on Tuesday of murdering his servant in their room at a luxury London hotel during a ferocious beating that prosecutors said had a sexual element. The prince, Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud, 34, was convicted at the Old Bailey of murdering Bandar Abdulaziz, 32. The court had heard [...]