September
Hurricane Helene kills 64 in US, leaves $37b damage bill
Hurricane Helene has killed dozens of people and knocked out power to millions across several US states, as the threat of flooding and dam bursts continues.
- Stephen Smith, Kate Payne and Heather Hollingsworth
August
Manslaughter, negligence investigation in Lynch yacht sinking
Authorities in Sicily have opened a manslaughter and negligent shipwreck probe into the August 19 sinking of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s yacht.
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- Donato Paolo Mancini
Final body recovered from sunken superyacht off Sicily
Hannah Lynch, the teenage daughter of British IT tycoon Mike Lynch, was the last person unaccounted for after her family’s superyacht sank four days ago.
Mike Lynch died just as he was planning his ‘second life’
The billionaire British tech tycoon loved to appear ruthless but was quick to help those in need.
- Ben Wright, Matthew Field and James Titcomb
Bodies recovered from superyacht wreckage include Morgan Stanley exec
Divers continue to search for the final missing person, thought to be the technology entrepreneur’s 18-year-old daughter, who may have been swept out to sea.
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- Guglielmo Mangiapane and Giselda Vagnoni
Divers find five bodies in superyacht, but questions remain
Among the recovered were reportedly technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, as questions intensified over why the vessel sank so quickly.
- Nicole Winfield, Danica Kirka and Andrea Rosa
Investigation into ‘open hatches’ on doomed superyacht
One expert at the scene in Sicily told Reuters that an early focus would be on whether the yacht’s crew had failed to close access hatches into the vessel.
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- Connor Stringer, Albert Tait and Josephine McKenna
Prominent lawyer’s haunting post before superyacht tragedy
The Clifford Chance legal partner was aboard tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s boat to celebrate their marathon courtroom victory when it sank off the coast of Sicily.
- Kate Beioley, Caroline Binham and Brooke Masters
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Did Bayesian’s 72m mast cause it to sink?
The superyacht was one of the 50 largest sailing yachts in the world, and her mammoth mast supported a total sail area of almost 3000 square metres.
- Gareth Corfield
Joy for ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’ and lawyers ends in superyacht tragedy
Just weeks after a huge courtroom victory, UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among seven people, including a Morgan Stanley executive, missing off Palermo’s coast.
- Matthew Field and James Titcomb
Superyacht sinks in Italy, tech tycoon, several others missing
Mike Lynch had just been acquitted of a billion-dollar fraud. Now he’s missing, and one person is dead after his luxury yacht was struck by a tornado.
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- Robert Mendick, Connor Stringer and James Titcomb
Brazilian airliner crashes, killing all 62 on board
Video shared on social media showed what appeared to be an ATR-made plane spinning out of control as it plunged to the ground.
- Reuters
May
Fears of second PNG landslide and disease outbreak
The blanket of debris has become more unstable after rain and streams trapped between the rubble.
- Rod McGuirk
Papua New Guinea landslide toll revised up to 2000
The unstable terrain, remote location and nearby tribal warfare are hampering relief efforts in PNG.
- Renju Jose and Lewis Jackson
PNG landslide death toll estimates raised to 670
Crews have given up hope of finding survivors buried deep under the soil and rubble after a landslide slammed into a village on the Pacific island.
- Rod McGuirk
April
Twenty minutes of terror inside Westfield Bondi Junction
Witnesses have recounted the terrifying period when Joel Cauchi murdered six people in a busy shopping centre in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
- Gus McCubbing, Les Hewitt and Campbell Kwan
Horror fire engulfs Copenhagen’s historic stock exchange
Shocked passers-by raced to save artwork and treasures from the 400-year-old stock exchange building as its spire collapsed in flames.
- Tom Little and Isabelle Yr Carlsson
15-year-old arrested after bishop stabbed in Sydney church
Police had to face down angry crowds who gathered at the scene of the alleged stabbing in western Sydney in the hours after the attack.
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- Andrea Hayward, Lewis Jackson and Stella Qiu
Police to probe if Bondi killer targeted women
Police are investigating if Joel Cauchi was targeting women when he murdered six people during a nightmarish stabbing spree in Sydney.
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- Gus McCubbing
Police say 12-year-old carried out school shooting in Finland
Finnish authorities say the child shot and killed a classmate and seriously wounded two others in a suburb of Helsinki, shocking the nation.
- Essi Lehto