There are “benefits to consumers” of Gatwick airport expansion despite the potential of a third runway at Heathrow, the aviation regulator has said. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) made the comments as it announced support for the West Sussex airport’s proposed new commitments over the next four years. Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, has a…
Taiwan’s coastguard has detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew after an undersea cable in the Taiwan Strait was damaged on Tuesday, saying it cannot rule out the possibility it was a deliberate “grey zone” act. “Whether the cause of the undersea cable breakage was intentional sabotage or a simple accident remains to be…
The ABC’s earlier legal argument that Antoinette Lattouf had to prove the existence of a Lebanese race should “never have been made”, the broadcaster has conceded at a parliamentary committee which heard the case cost $1.1m in external lawyers. The ABC’s defence of Lattouf’s unlawful termination case originally argued she must prove the existence of…
A motorway bridge collapse has killed at least three people and injured seven as spans of the partly built structure collapsed one after the other. The accident took place on Tuesday in Anseong, about 70km (43.5 miles) from Seoul, when five 50-metre steel support structures collapsed in turn after being hoisted into place by a…
The man accused of killing Toyah Cordingley has pleaded not guilty to murder at the start of his trial, more than six years after the young woman’s body was found at an isolated beach. The supreme court of Queensland on Tuesday started hearing the case in Cairns, about 40km south of the alleged crime scene…
Three people died, two others were hospitalized and one was presumed dead after a boat sank in New York City on Sunday, according to the US Coast Guard. One of the hospitalized people was in critical condition on Monday morning, police said, a day after the speedboat took on water 5 miles (8km) south-east of…
The chair of the Sydney writers’ festival board has resigned over concerns about the festival’s balancing of views on matters such as the Israel-Gaza war, saying “freedom of expression cannot and should not be used as a justification to accept language and conversations that compromise the festival”. The festival board confirmed Kathy Shand’s resignation on…
The shortlist of teams competing to design a national memorial to the late Queen Elizabeth II has been unveiled and includes an architect once highly critical of King Charles. Five finalists are in the running for what has been described as one of the most significant design initiatives in modern British history, in tribute to…
The Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón is reportedly set to attend this Sunday’s Oscars after controversy over bigoted tweets. The Spanish actor, who is nominated for best actress, had been removed from the campaign trail by Netflix after resurfaced tweets led to a backlash. According to Variety, the streamer will now be paying for…
A US-based nonprofit organization has urged the international criminal court to investigate former president Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. The request, submitted by the Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) last month but made public by the group on Monday,…
