Qantas has announced that it will offer non-stop ultra-long distance flights to Australia from international destinations such as London and New York from late 2025. Under Project Sunrise, the Australian flag carrier is ordering 12 Airbus A350-1000s wide-body aircraft to service the above flight routes. The aeroplanes will be delivered gradually from 2025 to 2028. […]

Are we on the precipice of a major uptick in serious heart problems among otherwise young, healthy Americans due to the mass-disseminated mRNA COVID shots?  Observations from several medical experts, including a well-known Cardiologist, suggest that we are. Some individuals who appear to be facing worrisome jab-related heart problems are commercial airline pilots.  Advocacy groups also […]

Kristen Yaldor was not thinking about travel insurance when a hippo flipped her out of a boat and took a chunk out of her leg while she was on safari in Zimbabwe. In fact, it never occurred to her or her adventuresome husband, Ryan, that they would ever need it. Surviving the attack was only […]

Passengers who want to fly non-stop from London or New York to Sydney will be able to do so from 2025, as Qantas announced new direct services. The Australian airline has ordered 12 Airbus A350-1000 jets which are capable of flying for vast distances without the need to refuel. The new London to Sydney route […]

Roadside bombs, jihadists’ asymmetric game-changer in the northeast of the country, now threaten Nigerian roads and rails across the northern states, security officials acknowledged on April 26. “The Department of State Services (DSS) hereby draws public attention to plans by criminal elements to return the country to the pre-2015 era reminiscent of IED attacks on […]

Canada and Ontario are jointly investing more than $1 billion to help Stellantis retool its Canadian auto plants to make electric vehicles. Stellantis, the new company created a year ago by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s Group PSA, is investing another $2.4 billion to its electrification projects. They include creating flexible assembly lines […]

BOSTON—A passenger door on a Boston subway car did not function properly when a man got his arm stuck in it and was dragged to his death last month, federal investigators said Monday. The trains are equipped with safety features to prevent them from moving when the doors are obstructed, the National Transportation Safety Board […]

TOKYO—Coast guard officials searched the office of a Japanese tour boat operator Monday as part of a criminal investigation into suspicions that professional negligence caused the sinking of a vessel carrying 26 people in a national park last month. The Kazu 1 sightseeing boat started the tour in Shiretoko National Park on the northeastern side […]

The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, May 2. Click here for updates from May 1. Moscow Says 1,847 Children Among Thousands Transported From Ukraine to Russia More than 11,500 people, including 1,847 children, were transported from Ukraine into Russia on Monday without the participation of Kyiv’s authorities, Russia‘s defence ministry said. That number includes evacuations from Russian-backed breakaway regions of Ukraine, the […]

The 2022 Audi S5 Cabriolet soft-top convertible is much like the previous model year, except for new standard carbon fiber-look interior accents and 19-inch double-arm design wheels, which replace previous standard 18-inch tires. Engine and Performance The S5 Cabriolet comes with a 3.0 TFSI V6 engine that provides 349 horsepower and 369 lb-ft of torque. […]

KABUL—A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in the west of the capital in the early afternoon, said […]

CAIRO—At least eight children died Saturday when a passenger tricycle overturned and sank in an irrigation channel in Egypt’s Nile Delta, authorities said. The accident took place in the city of Itay el-Baroud in the Mediterranean province of Beheira. The children were workers at a factory in the city, around 140 kilometers (87 miles) north […]

Worshippers gathering after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque have been targeted in a suspected terrorist bombing. The blast occurred at the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in the Darulaman area in the city’s west where hundreds congregated on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Besmullah Habib, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry, […]

Gene Hambrecht died in 2020 after the truck he was driving got in the path of two cars illegally racing in Santa Ana, California. His wife, Pat Buchanan, told a throng of reporters April 29 that the last time she saw her husband alive was as she was heading out from their home to pick […]

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said he has called on the federal government to end its “pointless” COVID-19 travel restrictions that no other major country in the world has. “Alberta’s conservative MLAs have called on Trudeau to scrap pointless travel restrictions, including the vaccine passport,” Kenney said in a Twitter post made on April 28. “I don’t […]

KARACHI—A female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Pakistan on Tuesday, police and officials said. The blast detonated by the 30-year-old woman blew up a minivan outside Karachi University’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language and cultural center, killing her, the three Chinese teachers and a Pakistani driver. It was the first major attack this […]

An EgyptAir flight that crashed in 2016 while traveling from Paris to Cairo was caused by a pilot smoking a cigarette in the cockpit and starting a fire, according to a report. EgyptAir flight MH804 disappeared from radar on May 19, 2016, with 66 passengers and crew on board, all of whom were killed. The […]

Agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol in Texas recently disrupted multiple human smuggling events, including one in which several migrants were transported in a metal box. On April 26, the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint agents inspected a truck pulling a flatbed trailer carrying several large metal boxes. On one of the boxes, […]

Boeing Co unveiled $2.7 billion in charges and added costs across its aircraft portfolio on Wednesday, and expressed doubts over hitting jet delivery targets as technical problems, inflation and supplier risks cloud its path toward recovery. Shares of the U.S. planemaker fell to a nearly 1-1/2 year low after it posted a quarterly loss and […]

Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $1.2 billion in the first quarter as it took large write-downs and lost money in both its civilian airplane and defense businesses. The loss was bigger than Wall Street had forecast, and the company’s quarterly revenue also fell short of expectations. Boeing burned through $3.2 billion in cash. “Messier […]

General Motors Co. CFO Paul Jacobson said on Tuesday the company will spend about $2 billion on its self-driving taxi fleet Cruise this year. What Happened The legacy automaker said it is just a permit away from being able to begin charging for rides. “Inclusive of the incremental stock compensation expenses, we expect full-year 2022 expenses at Cruise to […]

Delta Air Lines, which is facing another attempt to unionize its flight attendants, will begin paying cabin crews during boarding, a first for a major U.S. airline. Across the airline industry in the United States, hourly pay for flight attendants starts when all the passengers are seated and the plane’s doors close. Delta said the […]

On Thursday, April 21, a small plane crashed at a General Mills food processing complex in Covington, Georgia. The plane collided into four trailers in an isolated area several hundred yards from the main plant shortly after taking off from the nearby Covington Airport, killing the pilot and passenger but leaving the General Mills employees […]

This new ruling means Uber, airports and airlines will no longer enforce mask-wearing – and it’s exposed what may be the greatest scam in history based on the lowest form of scientific evidence. They are facts we’ve known since the beginning of modern medicine. Story at-a-glance April 18, 2022, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle […]

P&O Ferries resumed sailings across the English Channel for the first time since the firm suspended most of its sailings on March 17 following the sacking of 786 seafarers. Spirit of Britain departed the English port of Dover for Calais, France, shortly after 11 p.m. on Tuesday carrying freight customers, with passenger services expected to resume […]

Three Chinese nationals and a Pakistani national were reportedly killed in a suicide bombing attack that occurred outside a Chinese-language learning center in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on April 26. According to reports, the three were among passengers on a minibus returning to Karachi University when the bomb exploded near the university’s Confucius […]

New aviation recruits will be permitted to begin training before passing security checks to ease flight disruption in the UK, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced. Passengers have faced chaos in recent weeks, with flights cancelled and long queues at airports. British Airways is axing around 100 short-haul flights at Heathrow every day due to […]

WASHINGTON—Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz backed the families of passengers killed in two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes and sharply criticizing the Justice Department’s deferred prosecution agreement with Boeing. The $2.5 billion Boeing deferred prosecution agreement, a type of corporate plea agreement, was reached in January 2021 near the end of former President Donald Trump’s […]

A cool, spring rain was falling outside, adding a sheen to the cobblestone passageways deep within the labyrinth of this ancient city, but everything is warm inside a former bakery, in a building dating back to medieval times. Welcoming our small group, Deborah and Nina smiled and offered each of us an apron. Soon, everyone […]

It was safe passage that made the small island of Menorca famous. In the ancient Mediterranean, there was no better place to ride out a storm. When the squalls buffeted and the waves hammered against your hull, there was always Mahon, one of the world’s greatest harbors, with miles of shelter. But today our captain, […]