Thursday, February 13

Day: August 30, 2017

Firefighter who gave Princess Diana CPR after Paris crash
ENGLISH, Europe

Firefighter who gave Princess Diana CPR after Paris crash

    A firefighter who gave CPR to Princess Diana after pulling her from the wreckage of the car crash that killed her has said that night will stay with me forever. Sergeant Xavier Gourmelon, 50, said he was certain the Princess of Wales would survive the crash after he resuscitated her when she went into cardiac arrest in the Paris tunnel on August 31, 1997. He was in charge of a medically trained fire crew at the scene and said she uttered the words “My God, what’s happened?” moments before she lost consciousness. In his first interview since the crash ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death on Thursday, Mr Gourmelon told how he pulled the 36-year-old princess from the wrecked Mercedes. He said after giving her CPR, he was convinced she would survive. Father-of-two Mr Gou...
There was no pretense about Melania Trump’s heels
America, ENGLISH

There was no pretense about Melania Trump’s heels

    First Lady Melania Trump walks on stilettos to board Air Force One en route to Texas to view the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey. Melania Trump is the kind of woman who travels to a flood-ravaged state in a pair of black snakeskin stilettos. Heels this high are not practical. But Trump is not the kind of woman who has to be practical. Heels this high are not comfortable. Comfort is not the point. Neither hers nor yours. Trump is the kind of woman who knows that when she walks from the White House to Marine One there will be photographers, and so she will dress accordingly. On this soggy Tuesday morning, she wore her stilettos with a pair of cropped black trousers and an Army-green bomber jacket. Her hair was nicely blown out, and she was wearing a pair of sunglasses thou...
St Olave’s grammar school unlawfully threw out a students who failed to get top grades
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

St Olave’s grammar school unlawfully threw out a students who failed to get top grades

    One of the country’s leading grammar schools has been accused of acting unlawfully by throwing out sixth form students who failed to get top grades in AS and equivalent internal exams ahead of their final A-level year. About 16 pupils at St Olave’s grammar school in Orpington, in the London borough of Bromley, were told their places for year 13 – the last year of school – had been withdrawn after they failed to get the required three Bs. One father accused the school of dumping his son like “old garbage”. Other students were told they would be allowed to continue on a discretionary basis and were asked to sign a contract warning that if they did not get a minimum B grade in their mocks the school reserved the right not to enter them for their A-level exams. Lawyers acting ...
Deputies visit relative of 6 presumed dead in Harvey floods
America, ENGLISH

Deputies visit relative of 6 presumed dead in Harvey floods

    When two Harris County Sheriff's deputies found him clinging to a tree branch, water up to his neck, Samuel Saldivar was distraught and in tears, describing how he watched a van carrying his elderly parents and his brother's grandchildren sink into Greens Bayou, a relative said. Saldivar's sister-in-law, Virginia, told The Associated Press Tuesday that the same deputies came to the suburban Houston home where she and her husband have stayed since volunteers evacuated them Monday for information about the children, aged 6 to 16, and her in-laws. They wanted to make sure that we understood how they found Sammy, she said. After his parents' northeast Houston home began to flood early Sunday, Samuel Saldivar borrowed his brother's van and drove to pick up the relatives. He tol...
German nurse convicted of murder in life and death game
ENGLISH, Europe

German nurse convicted of murder in life and death game

    A former nurse, only identified as Niels H., hides his face behind a folder next to his lawyer, Ulrike Baumann, at a court in Oldenburg, Germany. The court found the 38-year-old guilty of charges including two counts of murder and sentenced him to life in prison. (AP Photo/dpa, Carmen Jaspersen) At a hospital in northern Germany, he was once dubbed a bad luck charm since so many of his patients required resuscitation. What doctors and nurses there didn’t know was that he was overdosing patients with cardiovascular medication because he got a strange satisfaction from bringing them back to life. But he wasn’t always successful. Prosecutors accused the 38-year-old male nurse known only as Niels H. because of Germany’s strict privacy laws of three murders and two attempted mu...