July2022

Israeli airlines plan to expand and open new routes to India and other Asian destinations after Saudi Arabia announced it would allow unfettered access to its airspace, a move that would save fuel costs and reduce...

South Africans’ annoyance at power cuts has given way to worry, with business owners complaining that the prolonged energy crisis for which no end is in sight is eating into profits and hobbling economic activity. At...

The pandemic has not fundamentally altered the longterm growth outlook for commercial aviation, with an 82 percent increase in jets seen through 2041, according to a Boeing forecast released on Saturday. The company projected a total...

A 43-year-old woman has died after she was bitten by a dog in South Yorkshire. The woman was injured by the animal at a property on Masefield Road in West Melton, Rotherham, on Friday night and...

Emirates Airlines has agreed to cap sales of its flights out of Heathrow until mid-August, after the airport asked carriers to scale back capacity. The Dubai-based airline had previously rejected the airport’s request for it to...

Paul Ryder, bassist with Manchester band Happy Mondays and brother of singer Shaun, has died aged 58. A statement said the group and family were “deeply saddened and shocked to say that Paul Ryder passed away...

Billionaire Bill Gates has pledged again to give his wealth away, adding that he will eventually “drop off” the world’s rich list. It came as the Microsoft co-founder announced he would make a $20bn (£17bn) donation...

The largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in approximately 30 years has been recorded in official data published by WHO and UNICEF. The percentage of children who received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus...

Alibaba shares sank on Friday after a report said the tech giant’s executives had been called in for meetings with Chinese officials over the theft of a vast police database. A hacker last month put on...

China logged its slowest economic growth since the initial Covid outbreak, official data showed on Friday, expanding just 0.4 percent in the second quarter with lockdowns and property market weakness nudging a government target further out...