Boeing CEO cancels airshow visit as investigation starts on India crash
This was to be Boeing CEO Ortberg's first airshow since he was appointed to lead the company out of multiple crises.
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’
Donald Trump is walking a tightrope as he claims that he was fully aware of Israel’s plans to launch massive airstrikes against Iran while continuing to distance the US from those strikes and deny Washington took any active role in the preparations.
The White House’s messaging has shifted quickly from Marco Rubio’s arms-length description of the Israeli attack as a “unilateral action”, to Trump claiming on Friday morning that he was fully in the loop on the operation and that it came at the end of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to “make a deal” on its nuclear programme.
Continue reading...Pulp top UK charts for the first time since 1998 with new album More
Sheffield band were last at the top with This Is Hardcore, while Sabrina Carpenter is at No 1 in the singles chart and breaks an album chart record
Pulp have topped the UK album chart for the first time since 1998, with the release of their new album More.
The Sheffield band, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, were last at the top with 1998’s This Is Hardcore, the follow-up to the similarly chart-topping Different Class in 1995.
Continue reading...Detainees at New Jersey immigration center revolt as chaos unravels
Four people escaped after group held at Delaney Hall Ice facility pushed down wall amid police and protester clashes
Unrest and protests have erupted in and around a controversial immigration detention center in New Jersey, with police and federal officials clashing with protesters after detainees reportedly pushed down a wall in revolt at the conditions they are being held in.
About 50 detainees pushed down a wall in the dormitory room of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday night, according to an immigration lawyer representing one of the men held there.
Continue reading...Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation
US appeals court denies challenge after 2023 civil jury trial found Trump sexually abused Carroll then defamed her
Donald Trump has lost his latest legal attempt to challenge the $5m in damages awarded against him for defaming E Jean Carroll, the New York writer who a jury found was sexually abused by the president in the 1990s, before he embarked on his political career.
A US appeals court in New York City on Friday denied Trump’s request to reconsider its decision in December to uphold the jury’s award of $5m to Carroll. The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting.
Continue reading...Israel may have just pushed Iran across the nuclear line
The strikes meant to prevent Iran from going nuclear may instead push it to build the bomb.
Iranians rally for retaliation against Israeli strikes
Hundreds rallied in Tehran after Israeli strikes killed top generals, nuclear scientists, and civilians.
Black box found at Air India crash site as families wait for answers
Doctors are relying on DNA from relatives to identify victims' remains, and warn the process will be slow.
Black box found at Air India crash site as families wait for answers
Doctors are relying on DNA from relatives to identify victims' remains, and warn the process will be slow.
Two men jailed over theft of £4.75m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace
James Sheen given four-year term and Michael Jones 27 months after theft of toilet during exhibition in Oxfordshire
Two men have been jailed for their roles in the “bold and brazen” theft of a £4.75m gold toilet from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace.
James Sheen, 40, and Michael Jones, 39, were sentenced at Oxford crown court for their roles as part of a gang who planned and carried out the burglary at the Oxfordshire stately home, receiving a four-year prison sentence and a 27-month prison sentence respectively.
Continue reading...Iran is reeling from Israel’s unprecedented attack – and it is only the start
Israel's Operation Rising Lion is more extensive and ambitious than anything that has come before, says Frank Gardner
Astronaut missions postponed amid concerns about leaks at International Space Station
Chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades delayed indefinitely
A chartered spaceflight for India, Poland and Hungary’s first astronauts in decades has been delayed indefinitely because of leak concerns at the International Space Station.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said Thursday that it had postponed the Axiom Mission 4 to the ISS to monitor the cabin pressure on the Russian side of the orbiting lab before accepting visitors. Officials stressed that the seven astronauts currently at the space station are safe and that other operations up there would not be affected.
Continue reading...‘I realised I was alive’: Sole survivor of Air India crash recounts tragedy
Viswashkumar Ramesh, the only survivor of the Boeing 787 plane crash, said he witnessed other passengers die.
Plastics campaigners warn Australia’s pledge at UN needs to be matched with ‘high ambition at home’
Environment minister Murray Watt is returning from oceans conference where he pledged to curb the scourge of plastics and ratify a treaty to protect the high seas
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The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, is returning from a UN oceans conference where he pledged to curb the scourge of plastics and make good on Australia’s promise to ratify a treaty to protect the high seas.
The five-day meeting in Nice, France finished on Friday, and conservationists celebrated some key steps towards protecting wildlife in international waters.
Continue reading...Minns government backs bill promoting hunting in NSW’s state forests and crown land
Critics say history shows recreational shooting is not as effective as evidence-based baiting and aerial shooting programs
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In a back-to-the-future move, the Minns Labor government has backed a Shooters and Fishers party bill that will promote hunting in state forests and crown lands in NSW and recognise “conservation hunting” as a legitimate tool to control feral animals.
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, has thrown his support behind a proposed Conservation Hunting Council, to the horror of environmental groups which warn of a repeat of the now-defunct Game Council.
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Continue reading...Former Tory MP to face trial on general election gambling charges
Craig Williams and 14 others appear in court over allegations of cheating by betting on 2024 election date
A former Conservative MP and 14 other people facing allegations of cheating by gambling on the date of last year’s general election are to go on trial.
Craig Williams, who was the MP for Montgomeryshire and a senior aide to the then prime minister, Rishi Sunak, appeared in the dock at Westminster magistrates court on Friday after charges were brought by the Gambling Commission.
Continue reading...Nigeria pardons activist Ken Saro-Wiwa 30 years after execution
The deaths of the environmentalist and eight other campaigners sparked an global outcry in 1995.
‘I walked out of rubble’: Survivor on how he escaped Air India wreckage
Mr Ramesh said he saw cabin crew members and passengers dying in front of his eyes.
Watch: Israel strikes targets across Iran as leaders vow to fight
Israel's prime minister said Iran's nuclear capability posed a "clear and present danger", while Iran's president promised a "powerful" response.
Major music festival pulls out of Serbia after backing student protests
The organisers have blamed 'undemocratic pressures' after authorities cut off funding.