Ryanair profits plunge amid lower fares and Boeing delays

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Problems with delivery of 737 aircraft left airline ‘over-crewed and over-costed’, says CEO Michael O’Leary

Ryanair’s profits have dropped by nearly a fifth, as lower peak-season fares met higher costs that the airline blamed partly on problems at Boeing.

Summer fares were down by an average 7% as Ryanair cut prices to keep its planes full, carrying 9% more passengers from April to September this year than last.

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Spain floods: searchers scour car parks and malls amid fears death toll will rise

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Day after king and PM pelted by angry residents, search focuses on areas where people could have been trapped

Hundreds of civil and military emergency workers are searching shopping centres, garages and underground car parks for more victims of floods in the Valencia region that have killed at least 214 people, as public anger mounts over Spanish authorities’ handling of the disaster.

Yellow and amber weather warnings were in place for parts of Valencia and neighbouring Catalonia on Monday, with people in the affected areas advised to stay off the roads and keep away from the coast and rivers.

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Former Olympian Nathan Baggaley eligible for parole after drug plot sentencing

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The double silver medallist and his brother given 13- and 15-year sentences but could be freed because of time served for 2018 cocaine operation

An Olympic silver medallist and his brother are eligible for parole after being sentenced over a failed attempt to import cocaine worth about $200m.

Nathan Baggaley, 48, a former champion kayaker, and Dru Baggaley, 42, faced Brisbane supreme court on Monday after pleading guilty in October to attempting to import a commercial quantity of drugs – just days before they were due to face a retrial.

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Four wounded after axe used in fight on Paris suburban train

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Source says one person’s hand was severed in altercation involving several people at Ozoir-la-Ferrière station

Four teenagers were wounded, two of them seriously, after an axe was used during a fight on a suburban train outside Paris, French police sources have said.

One of the victims, all aged 16 or 17, had a hand cut off and another had their skull split open. The main suspect in the incident was later arrested.

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Search for boy, 11, swept out to sea on NSW Central Coast to resume on Tuesday

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Strong current took child trying to cross The Entrance channel with father and three younger brothers

A search for an 11-year-old boy swept out to sea by a strong current on the New South Wales Central Coast will resume on Tuesday.

A 43-year-old man had been crossing the channel between an estuary and the ocean from the northern side of a location known as The Entrance, with his four boys, aged 11, nine, seven and three. The eldest child was swept into the ocean.

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China space station crew returns to Earth after 6 months in space – The Associated Press

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  1. China space station crew returns to Earth after 6 months in space  The Associated Press
  2. China's Shenzhou 18 astronauts return to Earth after 6 months in space (video)  Space.com
  3. Watch Chinese space crew return to Earth  BBC.com
  4. China: Astronauts from Tiangong space station return to Earth  VOA Asia
  5. Watch Chinese Shenzhou-18 space crew return to Earth  BBC
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‘Fact-finding’ mission to look at $300,000 payout for Australian public servant after relationship declared

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Cate Saunders was seconded to Services Australia but accepted an incentive payment to retire from public service in 2023

The Department of Parliamentary Services has ordered an independent “fact-finding” mission into the role its officials played in a $300,000 payout to a former deputy secretary, who was moved to another department after a “close personal relationship” was declared.

Appearing before Senate estimates on Monday, the acting secretary, Jaala Hinchcliffe, addressed a number of open questions about the parliamentary department, after a series of high-profile integrity issues.

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