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Solar Impulse lands in Hawaii after longest non-stop solo flight in history
Veteran pilot tested to the limit of endurance on record-breaking solar-powered flight across the Pacific, on the eighth leg of round-the-world journeyA solar plane attempting the world’s first flight around the globe has landed in Hawaii, after breaking the record for the longest non-stop solo flight in history.Solar Impulse 2, piloted by the Swiss pilot André Borschberg, took off from Nagoya in Japan at 3am on Monday, for the five-day crossing of the Pacific Ocean, the riskiest leg of its journey. Continue reading...
Next week's Tube strike will be most chaotic for a decade
Prepare to dust down your bicycle, scooter or Segway – or at least get ready to cram on to an overcrowded bus.
BREAKING: Chaos as 150 migrants heading for Britain 'storm the Channel Tunnel'
BRITISH truckers have been forced into long queues on the motorway again after 150 migrants tried to storm the Channel Tunnel in a desperate bid to get into Britain.
Week-long rail strike set to bring fresh misery for London commuters
A week of rail strikes on some of London’s busiest commuter lines was ordered today by union chiefs.
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BBC News
- Ireland may get its own tall shipA cross-border project could mean that Ireland gets its own tall ship.
- VIDEO: High hopes for Irish tall shipIreland is hoping to get its own tall ship, thanks to a Ł12m (16m euro) cross-border project.
The Guardian
- At least 50 dead as five more bodies pulled from capsized Philippine ferryVictims found after crane pulled 36-tonne vessel that sunk on Thursday off port of Ormoc city to shoreRescuers have retrieved five more bodies from a ferry that capsized shortly after departing from a Philippine port, raising the death toll to 50.The bodies were recovered hours after coastguard spokesmancommander Armand Balilo said all 187 passengers and crew members on the Kim Nirvana had been accounted for, with 45 dead, 142 survivors and no reports of anyone else missing. Continue reading...
The Herald
- Ferry workers at CalMac and Argyll Ferries to strike again next week FERRY services face major disruption again next week as crews strike for the second time in a fortnight.
Mail Online
- British trucker blockaded Calais workers and they went to the police Folkestone-based driver Doug Wilson (pictured) decided enough was enough and he'd protest against striking French ferry workers, blocking their route just as they had blocked his.
North Wales Live
- Queen Mary 2 returns to Liverpool The Cunard flagship is returning to the Mersey to celebrate the company's 175th anniversary
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