Ellie Kildunne is used to operating at full speed – but even the world’s best can be forced to stop.The England rugby star has revealed she was left stranded in Dubai after airspace shut down, describing the experience as both surreal and unsettling. ‘I feel helpless because I’m sat on a balcony in Dubai when I should be here, there and everywhere,’ she said. Ellie had been away with teammates when travel disruption brought plans to a halt, leaving her among thousands unable to get home. While the situation was out of her control, the wider context added an extra…
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(Xinhua) 08:20, April 14, 2026 People visit an auto show in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province, April 10, 2026. (Photo by Hao Xincheng/Xinhua) BEIJING, April 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese automakers are speeding up efforts to integrate batteries, chips and artificial intelligence (AI), as competition shifts from scale expansion to higher-value innovation, industry executives and experts said at an intelligent electric vehicle (EV) development forum held in Beijing. This transition is underpinned by China’s fully integrated automotive supply chain, spanning batteries, core components and vehicle assembly, which enables both cost efficiency and rapid technological iteration. The country’s supply chain advantages are…
Pakistani and Indian soldiers take part in the flag-lowering ceremony at the Pak-India Wagah Border. — AFP/FileThe war on Iran brings into focus a hard strategic truth: rivalries do not stay frozen. They don’t quietly fade into the background. They accumulate pressure, absorb grievances and harden over time. And eventually – through nationalism, miscalculation or sheer resource stress – they snap.For India and Pakistan, this is not a distant lesson. It is uncomfortably close. Occupied Jammu and Kashmir is a live fault line. It carries years of accumulated tension – ceasefire violations, doctrinal signaling and increasingly toxic domestic narratives. The…
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Spire Global, Inc. is supplying ADS-B flight data and ECMWF weather insights to help researchers at Imperial College develop GAIA, a Global Aviation emissions inventory. This initiative aims to map how aviation emissions fluctuate across different times and geographies, with direct implications for climate change and air quality. By integrating advanced data sources, the GAIA inventory targets higher accuracy in measuring and understanding the environmental impact of global aviation. Spire Global, Inc. has recently collaborated with AmadeusITGroup to support airports in managing disruptions using integrated aviation data, according to a previous announcement. The company also plans to highlight aviation data…
A mainland Chinese woman has been acquitted of fraud over allegedly using a fake academic degree to obtain Hong Kong’s Top Talent visa, after a magistrate accepted the possibility that her agent made the false application. Shatin Magistrates’ Courts. Photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. Magistrate Raymond Wong found Xu Lina, 36, not guilty of conspiracy to defraud at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts on Monday, according to local media. The prosecution accused Xu of conspiring with a man surnamed Sun to defraud the director of the Immigration Department and other staff in her application for the city’s Top Talent Pass Scheme (TTPS) visa…
The amount of raw steel produced by US mills increased for the fourth consecutive week last week to a new multi-year high, according to figures recently published by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). US mills produced an estimated 1,843,000 short tons (st) of raw steel in the week ending April 11, up 12,000 st, or 0.7%, from the previous week (Figure 1). Production has strengthened 8% since the start of the year and is now at the highest weekly volume recorded in almost four and a half years. Last week’s production was 3.2% above the year-to-date (YTD) weekly…
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Union workers at JBS USA’s Greeley, Colo., plant have come to an agreement with the meatpacking company and ratified a new contract, ending negotiations and officially getting back to work after a strike that lasted about half of the month of March, and uncertainty since negotiations resumed between the parties about 10 days ago. JBS USA and United Food & Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 both announced the agreement over the weekend, and it means that the plant will resume “normal” operations immediately. The deal is a two-year contract that takes effect Apr. 8, 2026, the day it was ratified by 93%…
Which city will become the next Asian art hub? That’s been a popular parlor game in the industry recently, with players pointing to auction results and ambitious new art fairs to make their cases. After Art Basel Hong Kong late last month, I headed to two contenders, Bangkok and Hanoi, a trip that offered a fresh lens for understanding the playing field. I spent one evening at Dib Bangkok, one of the region’s most talked-about private museums, which just opened this past December. Sitting inside a James Turrell installation, I watched the light shift, from sunset into a field of…