At least 30 people have been killed and hundreds more injured as a violent thunderstorm swept southern Nepal. The freak storm destroyed houses, overturned vehicles, uprooted trees and brought down power lines in Bara and Parsa districts, officials said. The casualties included passengers in a bus that was blown off a road, witnesses said. Kusum Kalu, 70, told the BBC …

Jan-Michael Vincent, best known for playing daredevil pilot Stringfellow Hawke in 1980s TV series Airwolf, has died at the age of 74, it has emerged. The US actor also appeared with Charles Bronson in The Mechanic, with Burt Reynolds in Hooper and in seminal surfing film Big Wednesday. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for 1971 film Going Home …