Max Stephens

London

News Reporter at The Telegraph

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Articles

Body of missing British hiker found in Dolomites

6 days ago | aol.co.uk | Max Stephens

The body of a British hiker who went missing in the Dolomites on New Year’s Day has been found by Italy’s alpine rescue service. Aziz Ziriat, 36, was last heard from five months ago while hiking through the mountain range in the Trentino region of north Italy with his friend Sam Harris. Several Items and pieces of equipment belonging to 35-year-old Mr Harris were discovered by search and rescue teams in the days after the pair’s disappearance.
Body of missing British hiker found in Dolomites

6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens |Nick Squires |Patrick Sawer

In a video, filmed on the day of their disappearance and shared with The Telegraph, they had discussed plans to scale 3,000-metre high mountains. Heavy snowfall, fog, and sub-zero temperatures had repeatedly hampered rescuers' efforts to find Mr Ziriat, and they were often forced to curtail searches for their own safety.
France's prison population reaches record high

6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

In 90 per cent of these cases, the outcome of these fast-track hearings is detention, whether pre-trial or to serve out a sentence, according to Dominique Simonnot, the head of a prison watchdog group in France. France now sits behind Cyprus as the second worst country in the European Union for prison overcrowding, according to latest statistics.
Jacinda Ardern reveals Queen Elizabeth II's parenting advice

6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

Dame Jacinda Ardern was told by Queen Elizabeth II that she should "just get on with it" after she sought advice on how to bring up a child in the public eye. The former prime minister of New Zealand, 44, has recalled her exchange with the late monarch at a Commonwealth summit in April 2018 while seven-months pregnant with her daughter, Neve Te Aroha.
Five pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after targeting Gal Gadot film

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

Scotland Yard has arrested five pro-Palestine protesters who attempted to disrupt the production of a film starring the Israeli actress Gal Gadot. In recent weeks, London locations of The Runner have been targeted by activists who have criticised the casting of Gadot, a supporter of Israel's military actions in Gaza, as the film's lead. She plays a London-based lawyer whose son is abducted and is forced to obey cryptic commands issued by his kidnapper.
Churchill ‘Roaring Lion’ photo thief ‘breached trust’ of nation

1 week ago | msn.com | Max Stephens

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Watch: Paraglider nearly freezes after vortex pulled him up to 28,000ft

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Max Stephens

Watch: Paraglider nearly freezes after vortex pulled him up to 28,000ftA paraglider who nearly froze to death after his parachute pulled him 28,000 feet into the air is being investigated by Chinese police. The man, known locally as Liu Ge, was left suspended in -40F temperatures while flying above the Qilian Shan mountain range in northern China on Saturday.
Watch: Paraglider nearly freezes after vortex pulled him up to 28,000ft

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Max Stephens

A paraglider who nearly froze to death after his parachute pulled him 28,000 feet into the air is being investigated by Chinese police. The man, known locally as Liu Ge, was left suspended in -40F temperatures while flying above the Qilian Shan mountain range in northern China on Saturday. Body camera footage shows the canopy of his parachute being lifted by a current of warm air in an extremely dangerous phenomenon known as ‘cloud suck’.
Churchill ‘Roaring Lion’ photo thief ‘breached trust’ of nation

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Max Stephens

A thief who stole a photograph of Sir Winston Churchill was told he had “breached” the trust of the nation as he was sentenced to just shy of two years in jail for one of the most brazen art heists in Canadian history. Jeffrey Ian James Wood, a 44-year-old small-time art collector, removed the famed “Roaring Lion” print of Britain’s wartime leader from Ottawa’s Fairmont Château hotel in January 2022.
Churchill 'Roaring Lion' photo thief 'breached trust' of nation

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Max Stephens

After a two-year international search, the original print was discovered in the possession of a private buyer in Genoa, Italy, who bought it for £4,200 believing it was a signed copy. The picture had been taken to Europe and sold at Sotheby's, the British fine art broker which was not aware it was stolen. Wood, a failed philosophy student that struggled to keep steady employment, made approximately £2,700 from the theft.