All news by author: Christopher Bucktin

Debris from the Titan sub was found at 5am local time yesterday by a remotely operated vehicle 12,500ft beneath the sea, meaning the five people on board have perished

A massive multi-national search operation was launched after the Titan submersible went missing an hour and 45 minutes into the trip down to the sunken remains of the Titanic

The Titan submarine was reported missing to the US Coast Guard on Sunday at 5.40pm, eight hours after the Polar Prince, its launch boat, lost contact with the vessel

A German adventurer who once rode on the Titanic submersible says his time on board was marked by worrying technical problems - and has branded the voyage a 'suicide mission'

In this poignant piece, Christopher Bucktin reports from St John's, the Canadian city at the heart of the desperate search for the missing Titanic sub - and its passengers

The frantic search to find the missing Titanic tourist submersible expanded "exponentially" today as crews search a surface area twice the size of the state of Connecticut and 2.5 miles deep

The Horizon Arctic is powering its way towards the location of the wreck of the Titanic laden with a raft of heavy machinery and submarines that rescue officials believe give the crew of the Titan submarine their greatest chance of being found

A submersible that takes tourists to the Titanic shipwreck is missing off the North American coast in the Atlantic - and the US Coast Guard estimates the vessel has between 70-96 hours of emergency oxygen left

A rescue operation is underway deep in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean on Monday in search of a missing OceanGate Expeditions submersible vessel that carries people to view the wreckage of the Titanic

British billionaire Hamish Harding has been identified by his family as one of those on board with reports French submersible pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet and CEO of OceanGate Expeditions Stockton Rush are also on board

A man who traveled on the missing Titanic submersible last summer said it was controlled by a video game controller — and it went missing last summer, too

Brian Szasz, billionaire explorer Hamish Harding's stepson, posted on Facebook asking for "thoughts and prayers" as he said his stepfather had gone missing on the OceanGate Explorations submersible

One expert says a rescue is unlikely, as the US and Canadian Coastguards are working in tandem with Ocreangate's own search and rescue team to get to the vessel before oxygen runs out at 6 am BST on Thursday

A map shows the possible location of the five tourists aboard a lost submersible on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic approximately 370 miles off the Newfoundland, Canada, coast

A search and rescue operation is under way after a submersible used to take tourists to visit the Titanic wreckage went missing in the Atlantic Ocean - British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, who flew into space on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin Rocket, is among the missing

A woman may have been saved from a certain death after she was allegedly pushed down a ravine in Germany. Kelsey Chang, 22, survived the attack that killed her friend Eva Liu

Recent University of Illinois graduate Eva Liu was killed when she was thrown from a lookout point at the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany by an American man who allegedly lured the pair to a quiet spot

Miami Police Department have issued a statement confirming they are investigating allegations of sexual assault against UFC superstar Conor McGregor after he attended Game 4 of the NBA Finals

Al Pacino is said to have welcomed baby number four at the age of 83 after reports indicated parter Noor Alfallah had given birth

The 30-year-old US citizen lured the pair, aged 21 and 22 and also American, to a famous beauty spot near the 'Disney Cinderella' Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, where he attacked the younger woman before her pal intervened - but threw them both around 150ft down the gorge

The former soldier, 99, died in his native Wales but will be laid to rest at famed US military cemetery after spending most of his life in the States

Former President Donald Trump has pled not guilty as he faces federal charges over allegations he kept scores of secret documents that contained some of the nation’s most sensitive military intelligence

Former President Donald Trump has arrived at the federal courthouse in Miami. He has said he will plead not guilty after he was indicted last week on 37 counts related to more than 100 classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago

Lesly Jacombaire Mucutuy, 13, Soleiny Jacombaire Mucutuy, nine, Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy, five, and one-year-old Cristin Neriman Ranoque Mucutuy are being treated at a military hospital in Colombia

The emails written by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have been released as part of a US court case and show he was touting the Duke as a potential investor in 2011