Two pilots told investigators they were going over schedules using their laptop computers against company policy while their passenger jet overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles.

Recovery of victims from the Cameroon crash of a Kenya Airways passenger jet in which five Britons died was stepped up today, with teams removing bodies from the plane’s submerged fuselage for the first time.

A small plane slammed into a 40-storey apartment building in New York, killing two people in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the pavements and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack.

Former leading Rugby Football League official Greg McCallum is back in the game after being appointed to a new-look judiciary in Australia.