Forensic work in The Netherlands begins to identify Australia's MH17 dead. Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrives in The Netherlands. Photo: Kate Geraghty The Hague: Relatives of those lost in the crash of flight MH17 have been invited to decide how they want their loved ones' remains to return home, as forensic work in The Netherlands begins to identify the Australian dead. Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived in The Hague on Sunday night, for a day's visit in which he will formally thank the Dutch for their work retrieving victims from the crash site in Eastern Ukraine.
He will also meet some of the 500 Australian police, military and consular staff involved in the recovery effort, some of whom worked in dangerous conditions in the war zone surrounding the site. Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrive in the Netherlands to discuss the investigation into the downing of MH17. Mr Abbott on arrival in the Netherlands said that he was pleased to be here, "although obviously there is a certain sorrow which brings me here".
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Mona Lisa DNA: Italian Sleuths Aim To Connect Convent Bones To Da Vinci Paint... Italian investigators are just about to start DNA tests on bones that could belong to Lisa Gherardini, a Florentine noblewoman believed to be the model for Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting. And in a few months, there might be some of the strongest proof yet for the identity of the woman with the mysterious smile. Gherardini, known as Lisa del Giocondo after her 1495 marriage to cloth and silk merchant Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, is thought to have died in the Sant’Orsola convent around 1551.
Historian Silvano Vinceti is leading the charge to conduct DNA tests on a skeleton thought to be del Giocondo’s. The team plans to test samples taken from a skeleton at the convent and compare them to DNA from the bones of some of del Giocondo’s confirmed relatives, who are buried at the Basilica Santissima Annuziata. “If we don’t find her, art historians can continue to speculate about who the model really was,” Vinceti said, according to the Wall Street Journal. Richard III's DNA decoded: King in car park's genome to be sequenced. British scientists announced Monday, February 4, that they are convinced "beyond reasonable doubt" that a skeleton found during an archaeological dig in Leicester, central England, in August 2012 is that of the former king, who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
Mitochondrial DNA extracted from the bones was matched to Michael Ibsen, a Canadian cabinetmaker and direct descendant of Richard III's sister, Anne of York. As the skeleton was being excavated, a notable curve in the spine could be seen. The body was found in a roughly-hewn grave, which experts say was too small for the body, forcing it to be squeezed in to an unusual position. The positioning also shows that his hands may have been tied. Archaeologists say their examination of the skeleton shows Richard met a violent death: They found evidence of 10 wounds -- eight to the head and two to the body -- which they believe were inflicted at or around the time of death. Here, the complete spine is displayed. University academics provide answers on famous murder case. University of Leicester leads collaboration with Northumbria University, Northamptonshire Police and The Royal London Hospital Museum, in investigation of the Blazing Car Murder of 1930 Issued by University of Leicester Press Office on 14 January 2014 Images of the mtDNA slide being looked at in the lab available to download at: A forensic team from the University of Leicester and Northumbria University has spearheaded an investigation which has shed new light on a murder case from 1930.
A team from the University of Leicester, led by Dr John Bond OBE from the Department of Chemistry and Dr Lisa Smith from the Department of Criminology worked with colleagues from Northumbria University, Northamptonshire Police and The Royal London Hospital Museum to tackle the riddle of the ‘Blazing Car Murder’ from over 80 years ago. The case involved the murder of a male in a car fire in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, on 6 November 1930. Ends.