Two single-engine Second World War planes at an experimental airshow collided while landing, killing one of the pilots and injuring the other.

AN ATTEMPT to break an aviation speed record went horribly wrong yesterday when a small “experimental” plane crashed through an apartment building in the Swiss city of Basel, killing the pilot and injuring at least three other people, authorities said.

Two freed American aid workers told today of their terror during months of Taliban captivity, their dramatic rescue at the hands of anti-Taliban troops and American special forces and their hopes for a free Afghanistan.