An RAF veteran who flew the last Lancaster back to Britain during the Second World War has finally been awarded his medal, eight years after he became eligible for one. Former Squadron Leader Ken Symonds, 97, lost an engine during the final raid of Bomber Command's Europe offensive above Berchestgaden in the Bavarian Alps, where Adolf Hitler holidayed in his Eagles Nest retreat. Damage caused to Sq Ldr Symonds’s plane meant his was the last to return to RAF Syerston following the sortie on April

A MAN and a woman have been charged with the murder of a 15-year-old boy found dead at a home in West Yorkshire. Schoolboy Sebastian Kalinowski died at an address in busy Leeds Road, Huddersfield, on Friday.... He had suffered a number of serious injuries.... 1 Police released a heartbreaking image of schoolboy Sebastian Kalinowski in his school uniform with his hands clasped together after his death last week Credit: MEN Media Cops have released a heartbreaking image of the shy-looking youngs

close Video China to revoke credentials for three US newspapers The foreign ministry wants journalists working for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post to hand back their press cards within 10 days. Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his Pakistani counterpart Tuesday in Beijing to shore up their alliance amid the global coronavirus pandemic – promptly shaking hands in an apparent oversight of advised health measures.Xi and Pakistan President Arif Alvi clasped hands befo

After the jury left the courtroom, Fortenberry walked over to his wife and two daughters and clasped them in a hug.... Each count carries a potential five-year prison sentence and fines.It was the first trial of a sitting congressman since Rep.... Mack Jenkins said there was ample recorded evidence in the case and the jury’s swift verdict vindicated the prosecution’s efforts.“ Our view is that it was a simple story, ” Jenkins said....

After the jury left the courtroom, Fortenberry walked over to his wife and the two of his five daughters who were present and clasped them in a hug. Outside the courthouse, Fortenberry said the process had been unfair and he would appeal immediately.... Each count carries a potential five-year prison sentence and fines.It was the first trial of a sitting congressman since Rep.... Many prominent Republicans have endorsed state Sen....

A dredge scooping sediment from the riverbed last year as part of a$ 973 million deepening of Savannah's busy shipping channel surfaced with one the cannons clasped in its metal jaws.... The crew soon dug up two more. Archaeologists guessed they were possibly leftover relics from a sunken Confederate gunship excavated a few years earlier in the same area, said Andrea Farmer, an archaeologist for the Army Corps of Engineers.... But experts for the U.S. Navy found they didn't match any known can

The Armed Forces minister has said the UK will continue to bring Afghans to the UK “ for as long as people who are eligible want to come ” as troops who airlifted more than 15, 000 people from the country are set to receive a medal for their efforts. James Heappey told LBC that the Ministry of Defence( MoD) continued to bring around 250 people a week out of Afghanistan mostly through Pakistan, despite the winding down of Operation Pitting in August last year, and that this would continue “ indef

The graves of two soldiers who were killed on the Western Front during the First World War while serving with Irish regiments have been rededicated in Belgium more than 100 years after they died. Captain Hugh Mortimer Travers and Serjeant Frederick Cardy were remembered in services organised by the Ministry of Defence’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre( JCCC). The services were held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s( CWGC) New Irish Farm Cemetery and White House Cemetery, near Y

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Saquib Ali is an apprentice at Hi-Tech Electronics, one of a string of shops in Karachi’s Defence commercial area that specialises in repairing household appliances like air conditioners and refrigerators.... As Pakistan’s summer months approach, his days have already become busy.... Photo by Zofeen T. Ebrahim/ The Third Pole Unlike their problematic predecessors chlorofluorocarbons, HFCs do not deplete the Earth’s protective ozone layer....