Yahoo NewsVirgin Atlantic fined £870,000 for 'inadvertent' flights over Iraq airspace, flouting US-imposed ban
Virgin Atlantic has said it accidentally broke a US-imposed ban on flying over Iraq after it was fined more than £870,000 by US authorities.
Virgin Atlantic has said it accidentally broke a US-imposed ban on flying over Iraq after it was fined more than £870,000 by US authorities.
Hollywood star Eva Green has admitted it has been "very humiliating" to hear her private WhatsApp messages read out at the High Court, where she is suing a production company over a sci-fi film project that was dropped. The 42-year-old French actress had been due to play the lead role in A Patriot, appearing alongside Charles Dance and Helen Hunt, but the production was cancelled in October 2019. Green, best known for starring in Casino Royale alongside Daniel Craig, has filed a lawsuit against producers White Lantern Film, claiming she is still entitled to her fee of $1m (about £810,000) despite the project collapsing.
Many students nowadays will agree that the current education system is way outdated, and is due for heavy reform. This can be said for English literature especially, as many children do not understand the point of learning such texts.
Falmouth Town manager Andrew Westgarth was pleased to add another three points despite a below-par performance on Saturday.
A series of crashes during a major ice storm brought traffic to a standstill along several miles of Interstate 40 west of Memphis, in St Francis County, Arkansas, in the early hours of Tuesday, January 31, officials said.A little before 5 am, the Forrest City Fire Department posted photos of crashed semi-trucks and warned motorists that icy conditions on Interstate 40 and Highway 70 were presenting “extremely hazardous driving conditions.”Westbound lanes of I-40 at mile marker 252, about 13 miles east of Forrest City, had been impassable since 2:30 am and would remain stalled for several more hours, the fire department said.The gridlock began to ease over the late morning and early afternoon.This footage, recorded by live traffic cams operated by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, shows conditions at various spots along I-40 after 11 am.Another round of ice and wind was forecast to impact east Arkansas, west Tennessee, and north Mississippi on Tuesday afternoon. The National Weather Service said it expected the storm to cause power outages, dangerous driving conditions, and extensive tree damage. Credit: Arkansas DoT via Storyful
The festival is held on Shetland to celebrate the archipelago’s Viking heritage.
The TV presenter is returning to screens for a second series of Clarkson’s Farm next month.
William Shawcross was due to investigate the BBC chairman’s appointment amid reports he helped Boris Johnson secure a loan.
Mo Farah will return to the London Marathon this year one final time with Eilish McColgan set to make her debut over the distance. Farah was forced to pull out just days before with injury while McColgan delayed her planned debut in October 2022 after struggling to take on fuel on the transition from track to road running. “I was really disappointed to miss last year’s London Marathon because of injury,” he said.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which did not mention specific cases or intelligence targets in its written judgment, said there had been “serious failings in compliance” by MI5 from late 2014 to April 2019. Judge Andrew Edis also said the Home Office had failed to make "adequate enquiries" while approving the bulk surveillance warrants from 2016 until April 2019. Human rights groups Liberty and Privacy International, which brought the legal action, said the ruling showed there had been years of rule-breaking by MI5, which was “overlooked” by the Home Office.
He told Sky News' Beth Rigby to "keep them quick" and scolded reporters for asking two questions.
The cast and crew explain what went into the making of this unusual love story
Matt Hancock has insisted he did not "primarily" go on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! The former Health Secretary was confronted about the Government's Covid response, breaking pandemic restrictions and his appearance on reality TV during an awkward exchange on ITV's Good Morning Britain on Tuesday. Ms Garraway, whose husband Derek Draper spent months in an induced coma after contracting coronavirus and continues to suffer from severe long Covid, questioned why he decided to take part in the reality series when the public was still "raw" about his behaviour during the pandemic.
Formula One is never more than a chicane away from an unseemly spat as last week's surfacing of tensions between the sport's custodians the FIA and its owners Liberty Media demonstrated F1 is basking in a resurgence of popularity, fuelled by the exploits of its leading actors Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, adrenaline-sapping wheel-to-wheel racing, and an expanding fanbase driven in part by the success of Netflix's fly-on-the-pitlane-wall series "Drive To Survive".The week's clash, whilst by
GLASGOW singer Lewis Capaldi is among some of the star names announced to perform at a festival in Scotland later this year.
PC Sam Grigg left his victim taped up before cutting her when freeing her with knife
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Victor Hugo’s hauntingly human novel Les Miserables tells the intertwined stories of his characters during the French revolution in a cocktail of drama and pathos- no wonder then, that its plot has stood the test of time. The book, written in 1862, was adapted into a musical in 1980, and again in 1985 (in English this time) by Cameron Mackintosh. His musical is still filling and delighting theatres, and has been doing so for over 30 years.
MULITPLE schools across the conurbation will be closed on Wednesday, February 1, due to national strike action.
The Texas Republican is one of many conservative figures who tweeted wild speculation