News Headlines - 25 April 2016

▽Austria election: Far-right tops first round of presidential vote - BBC News

Austria's far-right Freedom Party candidate has come top in the first round of presidential elections, preliminary results show... He is likely to face Alexander Van der Bellen, an independent contender backed by the Greens, who is polling 20%.
For the first time since World War Two, the candidates from Austria's two main parties did not make it to the run-off.

▽Norwegian fighter jet mistakenly machine-guns control tower | The Guardian

A Norwegian fighter jet on a training exercise jet mistakenly machine-gunned a control tower with three officers inside, who survived unhurt, the military said Sunday.

▽Queen's 'Falling In Love' Letter Sells For ￡14k

A letter written by the Queen about how she fell in love with the Duke of Edinburgh has sold for ￡14,400.
The two-page letter was written in 1947 when Elizabeth was a 21-year-old princess.

▽Runner's high: Tim Peake finishes London Marathon in space | The Guardian

The treadmill turned and the timer began. It was 10am on Sunday morning in London and as tens of thousands of runners set out on the marathon below, the British astronaut Tim Peake broke into his stride on board the International Space Station. He was somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
Dressed in a red vest and black shorts, with the union flag hoisted behind him, Peake’s run took him into the world record books as the first man to complete a marathon in space. He finished in three hours, 35 minutes and 21 seconds. In the time he had taken to pound out 26.2 miles, he had travelled more than twice around the planet.

▽Hillsborough disaster inquests to deliver verdict on Tuesday | The Guardian

The coroner, Sir John Goldring, told the jury of six women and three men on Monday that he would accept a majority decision of 8-1 or 7-2 on the one remaining question they had not agreed on: whether the 96 people who died were unlawfully killed by gross negligence manslaughter.