The front pages this week play witness to sudden tragedy and high-profile attacks. We revisit two prominent aviation disasters: the fatal plane crash of John F Kennedy Jr, and the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine. Global headlines also capture the daylight murder of fashion’s “King of Glitz” Gianni Versace, alongside a foiled neo-Nazi assassination attempt on French president Jacques Chirac. Meanwhile, in arts and culture, the British government scrambles to ban an explosive spy memoir, and Heath Ledger receives widespread posthumous acclaim as the Joker in The Dark Knight, following his tragic death at 28.
