IN recent years there have been some serious accidents and incidents where aircraft have been extensively damaged or destroyed but all on board survived.

A photographer kidnapped in Afghanistan last month returned home to Italy today, one day after his captors freed him and left him on the side of a road.

The suspect in the failed July 21 London bombings who was arrested in Rome left the Italian capital today to be extradited to Britain, Italian police said.

Freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena returned to Italy from Iraq on today hours after US troops fired on the car she was in, wounding her and killing an Italian intelligence officer who apparently tried to protect her.