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Specialist divers launched a fresh search for six people missing since their yacht capsized off the Italian island of Sicily. Photo: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP By Giselda Vagnoni, Reuters Divers scoured the wreck of a luxury yacht off Sicily's coast to find six missing people, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, following an intense storm that sank the vessel on Tuesday. The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long superyacht, was carrying 22 people and anchored off the port of Porticello when it was hit by the fierce, pre-dawn storm. Fifteen people escaped before it capsized and the body of one person who died was swiftly recovered. That left six passengers unaccounted for - Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah; Judy and Jonathan Bloomer, a non-executive cha...

Navitalai Tamanitoakula blames the departure of “family values” for the increasing drug use in Fiji. Photo: Caleb Fotheringham Fiji's battling with a hard drugs crisis and people are worried the situation is getting worse. Locals in the capital say the surge in drug use, especially among the youth, is due to a loss of "family values". The drug problem is also causing a rise in new HIV cases. People in Fiji's capital, Suva, are laying the blame squarely on the loss of family values for the nation's meth crisis. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has pleaded with the public not to even think about trying drugs last month after a video of a young naked women reportedly begging for a hit circled social media. There have also been reports making headlines of users "blasting" or "bluetoothing" ...