The woman was crumpled on the floor of a mangled Mercedes, unconscious and struggling to breathe. The French doctor had no idea who she was and just focused on trying to save her.

Twenty-five years later, Dr. Frederic Mailliez is still marked by what happened in the Alma Tunnel in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997 — and the realisation that he was one of the last people to see Princess Diana alive.

“I realise my name will always be attached to this tragic night,” Mailliez, who was on his way home from a party when he came across the car crash, told The Associated Press. “I feel a little bit responsible for her last moments.”

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As Britain and Diana’s admirers worldwide mark a quarter-century since her death, Mailliez recounted the aftermath of the crash.

That night, Mailliez was driving into the tunnel when he spotted a smoking Mercedes nearly split in two.

“I walked toward the wreckage. I opened the door, and I looked inside,” he said.

What he saw: “Four people, two of them were apparently dead, no reaction, no breathing, and the two others, on the right side, were living but in severe condition. The front passenger was screaming, he was breathing. He could wait a few minutes. And the female passenger, the young lady, was on her knees on the floor of the Mercedes, she had her head down. She had difficulty to breathe. She needed quick assistance.”

He ran to his car to call emergency services and grab a respiratory bag.

“She was unconscious,” he said. “Thanks to my respiratory bag (…) she regained a little bit more energy, but she couldn’t say anything.”

The doctor would later find out the news — along with the rest of the world — that the woman he treated was Diana, Britain’s national treasure adored by millions.

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“I know it’s surprising, but I didn’t recognise Princess Diana,” he said. “I was in the car on the rear seat giving assistance. I realised she was very beautiful, but my attention was so focused on what I had to do to save her life, I didn’t have time to think, who was this woman.”

“Someone behind me told me the victims spoke English, so I began to speak English, saying I was a doctor and I called the ambulance,” he said. “I tried to comfort her.”

As he worked, he noticed the flash of camera bulbs, of paparazzi gathered to document the scene. A British inquest found Diana’s chauffeur, Henri Paul, was drunk and driving at a high speed to elude pursuing photographers.

Mailliez said he had “no reproach” toward the photographers’ actions after the crash. “They didn’t hamper me having access to the victims. … I didn’t ask them for help, but they didn’t interfere with my job.”

Firefighters quickly came, and Diana was taken to a Paris hospital, where she died a few hours later. Her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver also died.

“It was a massive shock to learn that she was Princess Diana, and that she died,” Mailliez said. Then self-doubt set in. “Did I do everything I could to save her? Did I do correctly my job?” he asked himself. “I checked with my medical professors and I checked with police investigators,” he said, and they agreed he did all he could.

The anniversary is stirring up those memories again, but they also come back “each time I drive through the Alma Tunnel,” he said.

As Mailliez spoke, standing atop the tunnel, cars rushed in and out past the pillar where she crashed, now bearing a stencil drawing of Diana’s face.

The Flame of Liberty monument nearby has become a memorial site attracting Diana fans of all generations and nationalities. She has become a timeless figure of emancipation and a fashion icon even for those born after her death.

Irinia Ouahvi, a 16-year-old Parisian visiting the flame, said she knows Diana through TikTok videos and through her mother.

“Even with her style she was a feminist. She challenged royal etiquette, wearing cyclist shorts and casual pants,” Ouahvi said.

Francine Rose, a Dutch 16-year-old who stopped by Diana’s memorial while on a biking trip in Paris, discovered her story thanks to “Spencer,” a recent film starring Kristen Stewart.

“She is an inspiration because she was evolving in the strict household, the royal family, and just wanted to be free,” Rose said.

Chinese authorities have said that 28 people have been charged and 15 officials including police are being investigated for corruption two months after a brutal attack on several women in the northern city of Tangshan that sparked outrage and safety concerns.

The investigation has gone beyond the actual attack to encompass broader allegations of criminal activity and police corruption in the area.

In June, a group of men attacked four women in a barbecue restaurant, after one of the men had his advances rebuffed. In graphic video footage circulated online, the men threw a chair at the women, and later dragged one of them out before hitting and kicking her and the others who tried to help her, authorities said.

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The assault and the public outcry renewed a conversation about misogyny and mistreatment of women in China.

The attackers were suspected to be part of a gang, and local media reported at the time of the attack that the police response had been slow, prompting concerns that corruption was involved.

On Monday, authorities from the Hebei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection said they were investigating 15 officials over corruption that involved "evil organizations," including those associated with the attackers.

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The 15, including the director of Tangshan's public security bureau and officers from several police stations, are suspected of abuse of power, bribery and other job-related crimes. Eight of them have been detained during the investigation.

Separately, prosecutors said Monday that 28 people, including the men beating up the women in the video, had been charged recently. At least nine were arrested shortly after the attack.

State broadcaster CCTV reported that the charges had been brought on Friday.

The 11 offenses against them include opening casinos, robbery, assisting in cybercrime activities, picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

Two of the women who were attacked were hospitalised for at least 11 days, while the others had minor injuries.

Prosecutors also dismissed rumors involving the case, including that the four women had been sexually assaulted, pushed off a building or run over by a car, stating that these rumors were proven false after investigation.

Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 27 centimetres on its own, according to a new study.

Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That's because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow.

Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.

"It's dead ice. It's just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet," Colgan said in an interview.

"This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now."

Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is "more like one foot in the grave".

The unavoidable 27 centimetres in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland's ice sheet.

The study published in the journal Nature Climate Change yesterday said it could reach as much as 78 centimetres. By contrast, last year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 6 to 13 centimetres for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100.

What scientists did for the study was look at the ice in balance. In perfect equilibrium, snowfall in the mountains in Greenland flows down and recharges and thickens the sides of glaciers, balancing out what's melting on the edges.

But in the last few decades there's less replenishment and more melting, creating imbalance.

Study authors looked at the ratio of what's being added to what's being lost and calculated that 3.3 per cent of Greenland's total ice volume will melt no matter what happens with the world cutting carbon pollution, Colgan said.

"I think starving would be a good phrase," for what's happening to the ice, Colgan said.

One of the study authors said that more than 110 trillion tonnes of ice is already doomed to melt from the warming ice sheet's inability to replenish its edges.

When that ice melts into water, if it were concentrated only over the United States, it would be 11 metres deep.

This is the first time scientists calculated a minimum ice loss — and accompanying sea level rise — for Greenland, one of Earth's two massive ice sheets that are slowly shrinking because of climate change from burning coal, oil and natural gas.

Scientists used an accepted technique for calculating minimum committed ice loss, the one used on mountain glaciers, for the entire giant frozen island.

Pennsylvania State University glaciologist Richard Alley, who wasn't part of the study but said it made sense, said the committed melting and sea level rise is like an ice cube put in a cup of hot tea in a warm room.

"You have committed mass loss from the ice," Alley said in an email.

"In the same way most of the world's mountain glaciers and the edges of Greenland would continue losing mass if temperatures were stabilised at modern levels because they have been put into warmer air just as your ice cube was put in warmer tea."

Although 27 centimetres doesn't sound like much, that's a global average. Some coastal areas will be hit with more, and high tides and storms on top of that could be even worse, so this much sea level rise "will have huge societal, economic and environmental impacts", said Ellyn Enderlin, a geosciences professor at Boise State University.

Time is the key unknown here and a bit of a problem with the study, said two outside ice scientists, Leigh Stearns of the University of Kansas and Sophie Nowicki of the University of Buffalo.

The researchers in the study said they couldn't estimate the timing of the committed melting, yet in the last sentence they mention"within this century" without supporting it, Stearns said.

Colgan responded that the team doesn't know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educated guess, it would probably be by the end of this century or at least by 2150.

Colgan said this is actually all a best-case scenario. The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance.

If Earth starts to undergo more years like 2012, Greenland melt could trigger 78 centimetres of sea level rise, he said.

Those two years seem extreme now, but years that look normal now would have been extreme 50 years ago, he said.

"That's how climate change works," Colgan said.

"Today's outliers become tomorrow's averages."

A senior Perth doctor has broken down while telling Aishwarya Aswath's parents he and his colleagues did all they could to save the little girl's life.

Giving evidence on Monday at an inquest into the seven-year-old's death, Perth Children's Hospital emergency department consultant Dr William Hollaway made an emotional address to her father Aswath Chavittupara and mother Prasitha Sasidharan.

"That was a terrible night … I saw your pain and suffering," Hollaway, who led efforts to resuscitate Aishwarya as she died of sepsis on Easter Saturday last year, said.

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"I was heartbroken I couldn't save Aishwarya but I want to assure you that every single person at Perth Children's Hospital involved in her resus will never forget her."

Aishwarya, who had presented with a fever, vomiting and diarrhoea, was left in a waiting room for more than 90 minutes upon arrival.

Deputy state coroner Sarah Linton has been told there was intense demand on emergency department staff, including a junior waiting room nurse who was unable to monitor the girl because she was repeatedly called away on other duties.

Hollaway said the hospital was seeing up to 300 patients a day in the months preceding Aishwarya's death despite only having adequate staff for "perhaps half that amount".

"We were completely exhausted," he told the inquest.

"We definitely felt like we were under the pump and there was no end in sight."

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He said the response from hospital executives had been "lacking" despite staff having repeatedly raised concerns.

Hollaway became involved in Aishwarya's care around 7pm when approached by a nurse who was concerned the girl appeared unable to take medicine.

After seeing that she appeared floppy, Hollaway feared Aishwarya could be suffering from a neurological condition and moved her to a treatment pod.

He then went to review another patient but minutes later was called back to help resuscitate the rapidly deteriorating girl.

Doctors managed to briefly stabilise Aishwarya as she fought what later proved to be an infection related to group A streptococcus.

But while being prepared for intubation, the girl went into cardiac arrest. Doctors tried desperately to save her but she was pronounced dead around 9pm.

An expert witness found the resuscitation efforts had been carried out to the highest standard, counsel assisting Sarah Tyler told the inquest.

Hollaway said while the collective symptoms exhibited by Aishwarya warranted consideration of sepsis protocols, less than 10 per cent of children who experienced them would actually have the life-threatening condition.

He said Aishwarya's deterioration had been unusually rapid and her level of infection later proved to be extremely high.

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The inquest earlier heard a statement from nurse Caitlin Wills, who had sought Hollaway's help after seeing Aishwarya in the waiting room.

She said she had felt pressured by management into attending interviews for an internal root cause analysis into Aishwarya's death.

"The process was unpleasant and I felt like I was being interrogated," she said.

Wills was also investigated by the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency, which briefly placed conditions on her registration.

The inquest continues.

A 61-year-old Queensland man has been charged with 21 counts of rape after allegedly using his position in the Jehovah's Witness community to rape and assault young men over a ten-year period.

Police allege the Sunshine Coast man's four victims were aged in their late teens to early 20s and were abused between 2008 and 2018.

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The 61-year-old has been charged with 21 counts of rape, 17 counts sexual assault, 13 counts of procuring sexual acts under false pretences, and one count each of incest, torture and common assault.

He was arrested in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast on Sunday following a search warrant and was due in court on Monday afternoon.

Police are appealing for anyone with information about the man to come forward to police.

If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit 1800RESPECT.org.au. In an emergency, call 000.

Three people have been killed after a light plane crashed west of Brisbane.

The airplane landed in a remote area near Lowood, a 60-minute drive west of Queensland's capital.

Due to the nature of the area, paramedics have struggled to get on scene, approaching the wreckage by foot.

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The plane ran into bad weather, before dropping 2000 feet from the air.

The plane was tracked leaving Roma in western Queensland this morning at 7.20am, stopping in Dalby around 9am, before taking off again fifteen minutes later.

The plane then lost connection near Ipswich around 10am before plunging to the ground this afternoon.

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The New South Wales Rural Fire Service has been criticised over the 2020 air tanker crash that killed three US firefighters during the Black Summer bushfires.

US firefighters Paul Hudson, Rick DeMorgan and Ian McBeth were flying in Peak View near Cooma in January 2020 helping fight the Black Summer bushfires when the Lockheed C-130 firefighting tanker crashed, killing the three men.

"All three were far from home, helping to defend lives and property during the worst fire season in Australia on record," Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell said.

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A report handed down by the ATSB found the plane likely stalled as it climbed after dropping fire retardant.

At the time, weather conditions were "hazardous" with gusting winds and the report revealed the aircraft should not have been flying.

"The aircraft likely aerodynamically stalled in hazardous conditions that included windshear and an increasing tailwind," Mitchell said.

The men likely didn't know the other smaller firefighting aircraft had stopped flying in the area because of the dangerous weather and the "spotter" aircraft which was supposed to fly ahead of the tanker also refused.

"All other aircraft had departed the area and weren't operating," Mitchell said.

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The ATSB noted the pilot was instead relied on to assess the appropriateness of the flight without having all the available information.

Inadequate risk planning by both the RFS and plane operator Coulson were highlighted as an issue in the report.

"The responsibility for the safety of aerial firefighting operations has to be shared between the tasking agency and the aircraft operator," Mitchell said.

"This accident highlights the importance of having effective risk management processes, supported by robust operating procedures and training to support that shared responsibility."

The wife of McBeth, one of the victims, told 9News "those in the best positions to determine if it was safe to send the plane up have let all our families down and they have a lot to answer for."

"It is a relief to finally receive a report that exonerates the crew and my husband of any wrongdoing."

"This, of course, does not bring back my husband, or my children's father, but it provides me some answers."

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RFS Commissioner Rob Rogers acknowledged the aircraft should not have gone up that day.

"In hindsight, clearly it was a dangerous place to be," Rogers said.

Coulson Aviation CEO Wayne Coulson said the loss of the three crew continues to be "deeply felt" by the company.

"We have full confidence in our aircraft and in our team members, and the safety of our team while conducting aerial firefighting operations across the world remains the number one focus of the organisation," he said.

The RFS will now overhaul its aviation policies and is promising to provide more detailed information to pilots before they fly, as aerial firefighting becomes more common.

Jetstar passengers says they were trapped in a Japanese airport overnight without food and water after their flight was cancelled.

Flight JQ12 from Narita, Tokyo's International Airport, to the Gold Coast was delayed by 24 hours, the airline said.

Due to Japan's COVID-19 restrictions anyone transiting through the country is banned from leaving the airport, leaving them stranded.

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One passenger, Gordon Knight, posted on social media he and about 25 other travellers were trapped in a transit area and were not allowed to leave to access food or water.

"We have no food, water or bedding. We'd appreciate assistance," he tweeted.

Jetstar said the delay was due to 'the late arrival of the aircraft operating into Narita as a result of an engineering issue identified prior to its departure from Australia'.

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"All customers were offered accommodation and meal vouchers and for customers who no longer wished to fly, the option of a full refund was also available.

"Unfortunately, some customers who were transiting through Japan from other countries, were not able to leave the airport due to Japan's COVID requirements to enter the country, including providing a negative PCR test.

"We are working with Narita Airport to determine how we can better accommodate transiting passengers during disruptions like this one," a statement from the airline said.

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