Titanic tour firm 'exploring all options' to save missing crew
A submersible craft used to take people to see the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean with its crew on board, sparking a major search and rescue operation.
Tour firm OceanGate, which runs $250,000-a-seat expeditions to the wreck, said it was exploring all options to get the crew back safely.
It said government agencies and deep sea firms were helping the operation.
The Titanic sank in 1912 and lies some 3,800m (12,500ft) beneath the waves.
The missing craft is believed to be OceanGate's Titan submersible, a truck-sized sub that holds five people and usually dives with a four-day supply of oxygen.
Russia says Navalny’s ‘extremism’ trial must be held in private
Kremlin critic faces charges that could lead to a substantial extension of his jail time
A Russian court has ordered that the trial for Alexei Navalny be held behind closed doors as the Kremlin critic faces extremism charges that could mean his prison time is extended for decades.
The case comes more than a year into Russia’s full-scale offensive in Ukraine, which unleashed an unprecedented crackdown on the Kremlin’s critics, with many now in exile or in jail.
President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic is being tried at the maximum security prison where he is jailed: IK-6 penal colony, 155 miles (250km) east of Moscow.
Drone footage shows car ‘filled with explosives’ on Kakhova dam
The Russia-controlled Kakhovka dam collapsed earlier this month, causing flooding that has killed at least 52 people
Drone footage has emerged allegedly showing a car filled with explosives on the Kakhovka dam when it collapsed earlier in the month.
Two Ukrainian military officials told the Associated Press that Russian troops were in the same area inside the dam where Ukraine claims that the explosion took place.
The Russian Defence Ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
The Russia-controlled Kakhovka dam collapsed earlier this month, causing flooding that has killed at least 52 people.
Australia set for landmark referendum on Indigenous voice
Australia is to push ahead with a referendum to alter to country's constitution to recognize the country's Indigenous people. Such a move would give the community a definitive say on policies that affect it.
Lawmakers in Australia on Monday approved a referendum on whether Australia's Indigenous population should be recognized in the constitution.
Such a change would give the Indigenous population — which was not even considered a distinct group in the national census until the 1960s — a dedicated say in policymaking for the first time.
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Parliament's upper house, the Senate, passed the bill with 52 votes for and 19 against — confirming the wording of the referendum on constitutional change.
The lower house of Australia's parliament passed the draft legislation in May.
There was applause in the Senate after the vote was held.
Uganda arrests three over horrific school massacre
Uganda has arrested three people over last week's attack on a school in the remote west of the country that killed 41 people, a senior official in the area told AFP on Monday.
"Three people have been arrested and are under interrogation regarding the attack. Details will follow as per the investigations," said Joe Walusimbi, the Resident District Commissioner of Kesese, the area where the school was located.
"In meantime, the public is urged to remain vigilant and provide information to the security agencies in relation to the attack," he added, without giving further details about the arrests or those detained.
Grief-stricken Ugandans were on Monday burying more victims of the massacre at the Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, which has been blamed on a notorious militia based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
Emma Raducanu says she sometimes wishes she had not won US Open
After winning the US Open at just 18 years old, Emma Raducanu had the world at her feet. However, it appears that success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and the British tennis player has spoken candidly on life since lifting her first grand slam title.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Raducanu touched on the side of sporting success that many don’t see and the impact it has had on her.
“When I won I was extremely naive,” Raducanu admitted. “What I have realized in the past two years, the tour and everything that comes with it, it’s not a very nice, trusting and safe space.
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