AfghanistanFour of six aboard private jet survive crash in AfghanistanRescue teams find charter ambulance flight from Thailand to Moscow after it disappeared from radar screens Four people are reported to have survived after a private jet carrying out a medical evacuation from Thailand to Russia disappeared from radar screens and crashed in a remote and mountainous area of north-eastern Afghanistan on Saturday.
Russian aviation authorities said two passengers and four crew members were onboard the charter ambulance flight, which was travelling from Utapao airport, near Pattaya, to Moscow via India and Uzbekistan.
JudaismObituaryLord Sacks obituaryFormer chief rabbi who was admired far beyond the Jewish world for his intellect and warmth
The former chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, Lord Sacks, who has died of cancer aged 72, was a much admired figure in both the Jewish and non-Jewish world. Even though his writ did not run across all of the Orthodox community – and not at all in Progressive Judaism – Sacks won high praise and was generally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant intellects of his generation.
Retail industry This article is more than 10 years oldOsborne Stationers shuts three stores after going into administrationThis article is more than 10 years oldBirmingham-based firm has already sold two stores, is in talks to sell another, and has began closing-down sales in further 14Osborne Stationers, a high street chain founded almost two centuries ago, has shut three stores and started closing-down sales at 14 others after going into administration.
Ratko Mladić This article is more than 12 years oldRatko Mladic visits daughter's grave while waiting for extraditionThis article is more than 12 years oldFormer Serb general makes trip to cemetery to pay respects to daughter Ana, who killed herself in 1994 with her father's gunRatko Mladic, awaiting extradition to a UN tribunal, visited his daughter's grave. In Han Pijesak hundreds showed support for Mladic ReutersRatko Mladic has been allowed to visit the grave of his daughter who committed suicide during the Bosnia war of the 1990s.
The ObserverCharities This article is more than 6 years oldThe stark truth about stripping off for charityThis article is more than 6 years oldBarbara EllenGetting your kit off for a good cause has become routine, banal... and exploitative
Some people, including zoo staff, just got naked at a ZSL London Zoo Streak for Tigers charity event for critically endangered Sumatran tigers. Naked people, male and female, some painted as tigers, streaked around the (presumably closed?
Arsenal WomenInterviewArsenal’s Kathrine Kühl: ‘We can still get even more women into football’Suzanne WrackThe Denmark midfielder on the benefits of growing up in a place that had a thriving girls’ team, making the step up to the WSL and helping the game to grow
When Kathrine Kühl was five, growing up in the small Danish town of Hillerød, she joined a girls’ football team. Hillerød has a tiny population of just over 36,000 but unlike many of the players around her at Arsenal, Kühl never had to play with boys because girls’ football was available to her.
Arsenal Women This article is more than 1 year oldBeth Mead pays tribute after ‘kind and funny’ mother dies from ovarian cancer This article is more than 1 year oldEngland forward announces news on social media‘If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever’The England forward Beth Mead has paid tribute to her “beautiful, kind and funny mum”, who has died from ovarian cancer. The Arsenal player used social media to confirm that her mother, June Mead, had “passed away peacefully” last Saturday.
Cycling This article is more than 1 year oldDavide Rebellin, former Paris-Nice winner, dies after being hit by truckThis article is more than 1 year oldItalian cyclist killed while training near VicenzaRebellin retired this year after three decades in sportDavide Rebellin, the Italian cyclist who won the Amstel Gold Race, La Fleche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège in a stellar 2004 season and the Paris-Nice race in 2008, has died aged 51 after being hit by a driver in a truck while training near Vicenza, local media reported on Wednesday.
From the Guardian archiveTutankhamunObituaryEgyptologist Howard Carter dies - archive, 19393 March 1939: The archeologist discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun
Mr. Howard Carter, the Egyptologist, was born at Swaffham, in Norfolk, in 1873. Because of his poor health when a boy he was educated privately. When seventeen years of age he obtained a post as draughtsman on the staff of the Egypt Exploration Fund, which had in the previous year established an Archeological Survey, the purpose of which was to make records of the monuments above ground and exposed to pillage and destruction.
10 Sept 202314.38 BSTHere is the match report.
Japan too strong for Rugby World Cup debutants Chile in bonus point winRead more10 Sept 202314.07 BSTFull-time: Japan 42-12 ChileThat scoreline doesn’t quite tell the full story. Japan weren’t brilliant and Chile on their World Cup debut deserved more than that. A wonderfully entertaining game that lost some oomph towards the end finishes with a rout. Fair play to the South Americans who scored two tries and asked plenty of questions with ball in hand.