All news by author: Christopher Bucktin

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Horror injuries of man who had first-ever face and double hand transplant
Joe DiMeo suffered third-degree burns across 80 per cent of his body when he crashed in July 2018. In the following months, the 24-year-old underwent 20 reconstructive plastic surgeries and a skin graft before spending 23 hours having the pioneering surgery in August 2020
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OceanGate boss 'used university interns' to design electrical system for sub
The boss of OceanGate Stockton Rush, who allegedly ignored safety warnings, used students from Washington State University (WSU) to work on the critical systems
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Boss of Titanic submarine search hoped to 'grab' vessel and bring it to surface
The chief executive of the Pelagic Research Services, Ed Cassano, whose team carried out the search for the Titan underwater vessel near the wreck of the Titanic, has revealed how his team would have tried to locate the vessel
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Boss of Titanic sub 'misled passengers' to get them on board doomed expedition
A group spearheaded by Titan submersible catastrophe victim Paul-Henri Nargeolet suggests that OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush misled the explorer in order to get the crew on the sub
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Wanted man caught near Barack Obama's house with explosives
Taylor Taranto was spotted by law enforcement a few streets from the former president's Washington DC home, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the matter
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Madonna endured gruelling mammoth rehearsal sessions for tour before collapse
Pop icon is now back at home in New York recovering from the severe bacterial infection that led to her being found unresponsive and taken to hospital
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Titanic submarine rescue mission officially ends as families wait for news on bodies
The families of the five passengers on board the OceanGate Titan submarine that went missing on a venture to the Titanic wreck are left wondering if the remains of their loved ones will ever be found
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Supreme Court ends affirmative action in landmark decision
The landmark decision overturns long-standing precedent that has benefitted Black and Latino students in higher education
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Families of Titanic sub victims will give DNA to give grieving relatives closure
It comes after human remains were found from the wreckage of the Titan submersible operated by OceanGate, from the ocean floor on Wednesday - the fatal implosion killed five people
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Imploded Titanic sub debris to be put together 'like jigsaw' by Brit officials
Pieces of the imploded OceanGate Titan submarine that went missing near the wreck of the Titanic have been brought ashore by the US Coast Guard and British investigators will piece it together forensically 'like a jigsaw'
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Horror as woman plummets overboard into ocean from 10th deck of cruise ship
A dramatic rescue of a 42-year-old woman occurred when she fell from the 10th deck of a cruise ship. Witness and fellow passenger Matthew Kuhn said he thought someone had died
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Elon Musk pictured training for billionaire brawl with Mark Zuckerberg
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg could be set for a billionaire brawl in the UFC Octagon with Musk pictured in training ahead of a potential fight with his Meta rival
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Personality disorder should not hinder rape suspect Nicholas Rossi's extradition
The psychiatrist told an extradition hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court that Nicholas Rossi did show symptoms of a personality disorder due to consistent disagreement with mental health professionals
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Major Epstein report details how billionaire abuser was able to kill himself
The Justice Department’s watchdog said on Tuesday that a “combination of negligence and misconduct” enabled financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York
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Tearjerking video shows smiling Titanic sub victim solving Rubik's cube
Christine Dawood has told how her son Suleman Dawood had taken his Rubik's Cube in an attempt to break a world record, as he hoped to solve it at 3,800m deep, alongside his dad Shahzada Dawood,
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Sister of Titan tourists who died refused to give up hope after sub disappeared
Alina Dawood, the sister of Suleman Dawood and wife of Shahzada Dawood, refused to believe her dad and brother passed away in the OceanGate submersible tragedy
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Mum of teen Titanic tourist who died onboard shares last moments with her son
Mother of Suleman Dawood and wife of Shahzada Dawood, Christine Dawood, has spoken of how her son "really wanted to go" on the trip and had taken his Rubik's Cube in an attempt to break a world record, solving it at 3,800m deep.
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Brit teenager on tragic Titanic sub took Rubik's Cube to break record, mum says
Suleman Dawood, 19, and his father Shahzada both died in the Titan disaster on their way to see the Titanic wreck, and had brought a Rubik's Cube with them to set a world record
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Titanic tragedy victim's pal warned explorer 'don't get in that damn sub'
Hamish Harding’s friend Victor Vescovo, one of the world’s most accomplished deep sea pilots, told how the Brit was determined to go on the ill-fated expedition which saw all five men lose their lives
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Crew of Titanic sub mothership banned from leaving vessel as probe begins
As soon as the boat was secured at the dockside, it was boarded at 8am ET by a team of US and Canadian federal investigators who are now set to determine how the implosion took place
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Titanic submarine mothership that dropped five into fatal dive returns to shore
Chief among the four vessels returning to port today was the MV Polar Prince, the mothership that towed the doomed underwater vehicle into the Atlantic Ocean before its "catastrophic implosion"
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Doctor shares what happened to Titanic sub crew during implosion - live updates
A "catastrophic implosion" is believed to have happened near the Titanic shipwreck with passengers Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet on board
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'Slivers of Titanic hope brutally replaced by a reality we refused to accept'
After the death of five men on Titanic trip was announced by officials, CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN reports from St John's, a Canadian city in mourning
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Dad and son who passed away in Titanic sub tragedy died 'hand-in-hand'
Businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and teenager Suleman Dawood, 19, died 'hand-in-hand' onboard the Titan submersible confmred lost yesterday, their heartbroken family has said
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All we know after 'catastrophic implosion' of Titan sub kills all 5 on board
The wreckage of Titan, the OceanGate submersible that prompted a major search operation, has been found after what was likely a 'catastrophic implosion.' Here's what we know so far