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Ryanair adds Google Cloud to its dual-cloud flight plan
Ryanair has signed a five-year agreement with Google Cloud, adding Google’s AI, productivity and infrastructure services alongside its recently renewed AWS contract. The airline says this dual-cloud strategy will improve resilience by allowing critical systems to switch providers during outages, supporting its ambition to carry 300 million passengers annually by 2034. Google Workspace and Google…
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Virgin Galactic postpones its new spaceship’s first commercial flight to 2027
Virgin Galactic has delayed the first commercial flight of its new Delta-class spaceship from late 2026 until February 2027 at the earliest. The postponement matters because the company paused its previous suborbital tourist service in 2024 to concentrate on this next-generation vehicle, making the Delta programme central to restarting regular flights. Chief executive Michael Colglazier…
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Travellers set up camp in Hillsborough Park
Travellers arrived in the park this week
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‘Far From the Trees’ Director Meritxell Colell on Turning Exile and Endangered Languages Into a ‘Body of Memory’
“Far From the Trees”, premiering in Locarno’s international competition, follows Adela, a 50-year-old Mexican sound artist recording endangered languages as she travels from the Peruvian jungle to the Andes. Her work continues that of her Catalan Republican grandfather, but news that her grandmother may be dying forces her to confront family silences, childhood memories and…
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Is Orlando destined to be one of the next MLB cities? The Orlando Dreamers are looking to make it happen
The article examines the Orlando Dreamers’ campaign to bring a Major League Baseball franchise to Orlando, presenting the city as a potential future expansion or relocation market. It argues that Orlando’s tourism profile and Central Florida location could make it an attractive home for a new team, while recognising that joining MLB would require significant…
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Aussie describes ‘massive flames’ and drifting for four hours with broken ribs after Bali ferry catches fire
An Australian survivor has described escaping a ferry fire off Bali, saying he saw “massive” flames and drifted in the sea for four hours despite suffering broken ribs. More than 170 people were evacuated, and Indonesian authorities confirmed that an Indonesian woman died, underlining the danger faced by passengers during the emergency. The KMP Putri…
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Baby at the center of surrogacy scandal is BORN in Texas after biological parents demanded he was aborted but woman carrying him refused
A baby at the centre of a dispute over surrogacy has been born in Texas after the woman carrying him, McKenna West, refused the intended biological parents’ request to terminate the pregnancy. The case has highlighted competing questions about a surrogate’s bodily autonomy, the enforceability of surrogacy contracts and decisions over treatment for a child…
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FlightAware dropped its lawsuit against Kalshi after just one day
FlightAware has withdrawn its lawsuit against prediction market platform Kalshi just one day after filing it, dismissing the case without prejudice. The dispute concerned Kalshi’s use of flight data for markets on cancellations, and its rapid withdrawal leaves the companies’ relationship and the reason for the reversal unclear. Kalshi has changed its wording from saying…
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State Department establishes task force to end ‘birth tourism’
The State Department on Tuesday announced it has established a task force to end “birth tourism,” or the practice of traveling to a country to give birth there, escalating President Trump’s campaign against birthright citizenship, the constitutional right granting American citizenship to babies born in the United States. “As President Trump has made clear, citizenship…