Letter reveals for the first time how Titanic owners demanded huge sums from grieving families to be reunited with bodies of ship's crew

An astonishing letter from the Titanic's owners to the family of a dead officer asking for a huge sum of money to return his dead body to England has been uncovered 103 years on from the tragedy. The...

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400 believed to have drowned off Libya after migrant boat capsizes

Survivors of a capsized migrant boat off Libya have told the aid group Save the Children that around 400 people are believed to have drowned. Even before the survivors were interviewed, Italy’s coast...

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