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A 29-year-old British man has survived after plunging 300ft down a mountainside in the snowy German Alps after going for a hike in a pair of shorts and trainers. He and three other Englishmen set out for Kehlstein's 6,171ft peak on Monday, a subpeak of the colossal Göll massif in the Berchtesgaden Alps. They were having difficulty navigating due to poor visibility and it being slippery underfoot when the 29-year-old fell down the rocky gully.  He suffered serious injuries to his legs, head and feet, but it would be more than hour until the rescue helicopter was able to find them in the dense fog. Mountain rescuers on Monday flying down to the rocky slope down which the 29-year-old Englishman fell The helicopter flew the man off the mountain despite heavy fog  Rescue teams had to triangulate the group's position using their call data before scouring the mountainside with binoculars. After they were spotted, about 45 minutes after their call, mountain rescuers were able to reach

More than one million houses will sell by the end of the year as eager house buyers rush to cash-in on Rishi Sunak's stamp duty cuts.  Real estate agent Savills said it expects around 1.06 million house sales across Britain in 2020 - with the market favouring established home owners and cash buyers. Further proving the country is seeing a buyers' market, the number of mortgage approvals jumped to its highest levels since 2007 in August, the Bank of England said. Some 84,700 approvals for house purchase were recorded, marking the highest number since October 2007, according to the Bank's money and credit report. The 1.06 million predicted house sales figure is around a quarter of a million more than it had previously predicted - prior to the Chancellor's temporary stamp duty holiday announced in July.  More than one million houses will sell by the end of the year as eager house buyers rush to cash-in on Rishi Sunak's stamp duty cuts. Pictured: A graph showing current

A French ambassador who allegedly had sex with a woman who didn't realise he wasn't wearing a condom is being investigated by Paris prosecutors. The woman, 30, claims she is a victim of 'stealthing' after telling police she had spent part of the night at the home of the ambassador, 44, she had met through a dating site.    A source close to the inquiry said: 'They had met up several times without any sexual relations. That evening, they had consensual sex.' A French ambassador who had sex with a woman who didn't realise he wasn't wearing a condom is being investigated by Paris prosecutors (file image) Confirming the report in French magazine Le Point, the source added: 'She asked him to use a condom but realised during the act that the man was not wearing one.' The woman filed her complaint three days later. The source did not identify him by name, while Le Point said only that he is based in the Middle East. French law defines rape as 'any s

The family of a mother-of-three left fighting for life after a teenager allegedly ran a red light and smashed into a taxi are 'praying for a miracle' as hopes fade she will survive.  Tamika Wever, 24, was on the way home from the pub with fiancé Dylan Whitey at about 1.15am on Saturday in Edgeworth, near Newcastle in NSW, when the maxi taxi they were in flipped to the side following a horror crash.  A Holden Statesman, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old boy ran a red light and slammed into the taxi and injured a total of 11 people. Tamika Wever, 24, was on the way home from the pub with fiancé Dylan Whitey about 1.15am on Saturday in Edgeworth near Newcastle in NSW, when the maxi taxi they were in flipped to the side following a horror crash (pictured with their three sons) A Holden Statesman, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old boy ran a red light and slammed into the taxi and injured a total of 11 people   Ms Wever suffered severe head injuries and remains on life support at Joh

A domestic violence survivor has recalled how chillingly calm her jilted ex-boyfriend was before he set fire to her home in a crazed attempt to kill her and her family. Unemployed banker Neil de Graaf suffered burns to 95 per cent of his body after he doused petrol around the home of his former partner April Wilmot in Ipswich, south-east Queensland, and set it alight in November 2016. He had seconds earlier crashed his BMW into the property armed with two jerry cans of fuel and a gas bottle. Ms Wilmot, then 23, escaped the burning house with her mother, teenage brother and his girlfriend after initially barricading themselves in an upstairs bedroom. April Wilmot narrowly escaped her burning home after her ex-boyfriend doused the house with fuel and set fire to the property Recounting in detail the harrowing ordeal which left her with enough trauma for '50 lifetimes', the young woman said her phone conversation with de Graaf moments before the attack left her with no indicatio

A 'reclusive' man who lived in a caravan was beaten with a claw hammer, garrotted and left for dead inside his burning mobile home by an attacker who later told friends the victim was a 'nonce', a court has heard. Geoffrey Pearce, 47, was hit three times over the head with the weapon and left to asphyxiate with a cable tie pulled tight around his neck, Exeter Crown Court heard. His killer Lewis Finch, 31, is alleged to have the set the caravan alight and walked away from the scene of the attack in the early hours of January 9 at a scrapyard in Newton Poppleford, Devon. The court heard that after the incident, Finch told friends he had done it because Mr Pearce was a 'nonce'. Geoffrey Pearce, 47, was hit three times over the head with a claw hammer and left to asphyxiate with a cable tie pulled tight around his neck in his caravan, Exeter Crown Court heard Mr Pearce, who was described as a loner, lived an 'eccentric and hand to mouth and pretty grubby existen

A war of words between LVMH and Tiffany escalated on Tuesday with the French luxury group describing Tiffany's prospects as 'dismal' and the US jeweler accusing LVMH of improperly trying to renegotiate a takeover deal. The Louis Vuitton owner's $16billion purchase of Tiffany came close to collapse this month after LVMH said it could not complete the deal by a November 24 deadline, triggering a legal battle. LVMH, led by billionaire Bernard Arnault, cited an official foreign ministry request to delay closing the deal to January, following trade tensions with the United States and worsening business conditions at Tiffany because of the coronavirus emergency. Tiffany, in turn, sued LVMH in a Delaware court, accusing it of deliberately stalling completion of the deal, which was agreed last year before the pandemic emerged.  It is seeking a court order to force LVMH to honor the original deal and a four-day trial is scheduled to begin on January 5.  On Monday, LVMH filed its