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By: Jessica Murphy and James FitzGerald BBC News, Toronto and London Delta Air Lines is offering US$30,000 (£23,792) to each person on board a plane that crash-landed in Toronto on Monday – all of whom survived. As it landed in the Canadian city, the plane skidded along the runway in flames before flipping over and coming to a halt upside ...

Eve Webster BBC News At about 03:30 GMT on Wednesday, the sky across northern Europe was illuminated by an object zooming through the air in flames. “I immediately thought of a sci-fi movie where it looked like a troop formation about to attack,” Simon Eriksson, a workman from Malmo, told the Swedish state broadcaster. The pyrotechnics were in fact caused ...

Source: Bbc News President Donald Trump’s attempts to shrink the federal bureaucracy are heading to the Supreme Court, according to US media. He has filed an emergency appeal to the country’s highest court to rule on whether he can fire the leader of an independent whistleblowing agency. Hampton Dellinger, head of the US Office of Special Counsel, sued the Trump ...

Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that prevents transgender women from competing in female categories of sports. The order provides guidance, regulations and legal interpretations, and it will enlist the Department of Education to investigate high schools thought to be non-compliant. Republicans say it restores fairness to sports but LGBT ...

Doug Faulkner BBC News A 15-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed at a school in Sheffield has been described as a “lovely lad” and the “life of a party”. Floral tributes and messages have been left outside All Saints Catholic High School, where the boy, named locally as Harvey Willgoose, was injured. A boy, 15, has been arrested on suspicion ...

Joel Guinto and James FitzGerald BBC News No survivors are expected after a passenger plane collided in midair with a helicopter near Washington DC’s Ronald Reagan airport on Wednesday evening. The plane was carrying 64 passengers and crew when it crashed into the Potomac River after the collision. The helicopter had three people on board, who were labelled a “fairly ...

Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi Kenya will allow citizens of nearly all African countries to visit without needing prior authorisation, according to a new directive by the cabinet. Last year, Kenya introduced a “visa-free” policy that required most visitors to apply online for authorisation before leaving their country. But the introduction of the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), which replaced the ...

By: Adrienne Murray Technology Reporter, Iceland In the shadow of Iceland’s largest geothermal power station, a large warehouse houses a hi-tech indoor farm of sorts that’s like nothing I’ve ever seen. Under a strange pink-purple glow, illuminated panels buzz and cylindrical columns of water bubble away, as a futuristic crop of microalgae grows. It’s here that Iceland’s Vaxa Technologies has ...

Mallory Moench BBC News “I need to invent a new word to describe it – when joy and worry meet,” says Efrat Machikawa. Her uncle, Gadi Moses, was taken hostage by Hamas fighters from his home in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. But there is now very real hope for his release, after Israel and Hamas agreed a Gaza ...

By:Laura Bicker China correspondent The hum of sewing machines is a constant in parts of Guangzhou, a thriving port on the Pearl River in southern China. It rattles through the open windows of factories from morning until late at night, as they finish the t-shirts, shorts, blouses, pants and swimwear that will be shipped to fill wardrobes in more than ...