• Posted By Mike Radford
• 19 Sep 2024

“I am walking around feeling terrified of somebody who is dead,” explains Gemma, who has been reliving the moment when she says Mohamed Al Fayed raped her. “He just had that power – I am petrified of someone who is no longer alive”. She is among more than 20 women who told us the former Harrods owner sexually assaulted or raped them while they worked at the luxury London department store. Many of them describe being imprisoned by a similar sense of fear; it is what kept them from coming forward for so many years.

• Posted By Orla Guerin
• 16 Sep 2024

A Lebanese surgeon has described how the sheer volume of severe wounds from two days of exploding device attacks forced him to act "robotic" just to be able to keep working. Surgeon Elias Jaradeh said he treated women and children but most of the patients he saw were young men. The surgeon said a large proportion were “severely injured” and many had lost the sight in both eyes.

• Posted By Anna Holligan
• 19 Sep 2024

Eighty years after hundreds of allied soldiers parachuted from military aircraft into Nazi-occupied Netherlands as part of a daring World War Two offensive, their modern equivalents will on Saturday repeat the jump in commemoration. In an airborne spectacular, 700 paratroopers from eight Nato nations - including the Netherlands, Germany, UK and US - will parachute from 12 aircraft.