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MH17 victim identification to take 'weeks and months'
The grim identification of victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 will take "weeks and months", a British official taking a leading role in the disaster investigation has told ITV News.
ITV News Correspondent Rohit Kachroo tweeted:
I just spoke with a British investigator who has travelled to the Netherlands to take a leading role in the #MH17 investigation
He tells ITV News: "I'm confident that we will identify them but we're talking in terms of weeks and months, but not days certainly"
Gold for Thornhill and Scott in tandem Para-cycling
England's Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott have won gold in the first Para-sport event at the Commonwealth Games, with victory in the tandem sprint.
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'Young and naive' Lampard sorry for post-9/11 abuse
Frank Lampard told ITV News he regrets drunkenly abusing Americans in the wake of the September 11 attacks, admitting he "was young and naive".
The midfielder, who has joined New York City FC, said: "I was young and naive...and now have some regrets about what I did.
"I categorically didn't set out to insult anyone and have badly tried for 13 years at Chelsea to be a good man on and off the pitch and I want everyone to see that I have improved.
"The most important thing to say is, I did not set out to hurt anyone. I was misrepresented by the British newspapers at the time.
"I will go to the 911 memorial to pay my respects and to show New Yorkers who I am and to apologise."
Stimpson's sister praises 'fantastic' Jodie after gold win
The sister of Jodie Stimpson said it was "fantastic" but hard to watch the end of the race, after her sister won triathlon gold at the Commonwealth Games.
Speaking to ITV News, Carrie Stimpson said she almost missed it, turning around just as sister Jodie crossed the finish line:
Rare super ants with fatal attraction spotted in UK home
They feast on electric cables, which can be a fire risk.
Read the full storyUN chief 'appalled' by Gaza school shelling attack
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is "appalled" by an attack on a school in Gaza which has killed at least 16 people.
The UN-run school was sheltering Palestinians at the time of the shelling, which Ban blamed on a "massive Israeli assault".
"Circumstances are still unclear. I strongly condemn this act. Many have been killed - including women and children, as well as U.N. staff," Ban said in a statement.
"Throughout the day, our staff had been attempting to arrange a humanitarian pause in the hostilities so that civilians could be evacuated.
"I express my profound condolences to the families of the victims and those of so many hundreds of innocent Gazans who have tragically been killed as a result of the massive Israeli assault."
Read: ITV News witnesses aftermath of UN school attack in Gaza
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More bodies of MH17 disaster flown to the Netherlands
The bodies and remains of more victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster have been flown to Eindhoven airport from Ukraine.
'Blood and screams as four shells landed on school'
A woman who lost her son in an attack on a UN-run school in Gaza said there as "blood and screams" as shells hit the facility.
ITV News witnessed the aftermath of the attack at the Beit Hanoun elementary school, which was being used to shelter Palestinians from the heavy violence.
Laila Al-Shinbari said families had gathered to await evacuation when the shelling began.
"All of us sat in one place when suddenly four shells landed on our heads ... Bodies were on the ground, (there was) blood and screams. My son is dead and all my relatives are wounded including my other kids," she told Reuters.
Latest updates: Children 'lying in pools of blood' after school attack
Is Britain Christian?
Jonathan Maitland travels the UK to ask whether we should accept that Christianity needs to take a back seat in a modern secular society.
Read the full storyLampard apology for his post-9/11 abuse of Americans
ITV News Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship has tweeted:
NEW: Lampard tells us he's sorry over his 2001 drunken abuse of Americans post-9/11 & WILL go to 9/11 memorial now he is playing for NYCity
