Incident involving Boeing 767 jet operated by FedEx comes amid intense scrutiny of troubled planemakerA Boeing cargo plane has been forced to land at Istanbul airport without its front landing gear, in the latest setback for the embattled planemaker.Nobody was hurt in the incident, in a flight operated by delivery company FedEx, according to Turkey’s...

State auditor, tasked with managing tip line, has been swamped with hoax reports made to protect trans people from inquiriesTransgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate...

OS Vernacular Names Tool contains unofficial names of 9,000 UK locations created by local people From Stinky Bay to Sausage Island, local nicknames for UK landmarks have long been a source of amusement. But in an emergency, the last thing rescuers need to grapple with is how to find Crazy Mary’s Hole.Fortunately Ordnance Survey (OS) has added thousands...

Israel to keep ‘mid-level’ negotiators in Cairo; key crossing for humanitarian aid closed on Sunday after Hamas shelling attackIsrael was reopening the Kerem Shalom crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, reports the Reuters news agency citing a statement from the Israeli agency in charge of it said.According to the statement, aid trucks...

Train driver strikes in England bring disruption to passengers; Sweden’s Riksbank cuts rates for first time in eight yearsFrance’s Alstom has announced a €1bn capital raise to help cut debt as the world’s second largest trainmaker struggles with delayed orders amid concerns about the future of its Derby factory.The Paris-listed company plans to raise...

Announcing her defection, Natalie Elphicke hit out at the ‘broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic government’PMQs starts in just over 20 minutes, and today there will be particular interest in the mood on the Conservative benches. Rishi Sunak has actively embraced the theory that the local election results show Labour is not on course to...