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Nick and Diane met stranded in Newfoundland on 9/11 and fell instantly in love… 25 happy years later they tell the life-affirming full story (including moment a blushing flight attendant caught them canoodling!)
Nick Marson, a British businessman, and Diane, a Texan divorcee, met by chance in September 2001 after their separate flights were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Their flight was one of 38 planes carrying around 6,700 passengers rerouted to the small Canadian town, and the pair struck up a connection while…
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SpaceX’s recovered Starship 40 will take months to get back to Texas
SpaceX’s Starship 40, launched from Starbase in South Texas on 24 July, unexpectedly survived splashdown in the Indian Ocean after a roughly 65-minute suborbital test flight, giving engineers a rare intact upper stage to examine rather than relying on telemetry and debris. Recovery has proved a slow, multi-stage process: after 24 days at sea, crews…
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‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ Posts Big Gain As Summer Slips Away – Broadway Box Office
Broadway’s 25 productions closed out the summer season with steady takings for the week ending 6 September, buoyed by Labor Day tourism, as every show reported a gain over the previous week. The strongest improvement came from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which added $240,630 to its weekly gross as Tom Felton continued his…
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Eight minutes to disaster: Inside the fatal flight of Barambah Organics founder and his travel-obsessed daughter before their light plane crashed into a Stockleigh field
A father and daughter died when their light aircraft crashed and caught fire in a paddock at Chambers Flat, near Logan in southeast Queensland, just eight minutes after taking off from Brisbane’s Archerfield Airport on Monday. Ian Campbell, 56, founder of the organic dairy brand Barambah Organics, and his daughter Hannah, 23, were flying together…
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Prime Video Orders Australian Originals ‘Free Spirits: The Backpacker Poisonings,’ ‘Madness of Three’ and ‘The Test’ Season 4
Prime Video has commissioned three new Australian original productions, expanding its local content slate to 34 titles since 2019. The line-up includes two true-crime docuseries and a fourth season of cricket documentary “The Test,” with all three set to launch from 2027, underlining Amazon MGM Studios’ continued investment in local storytelling for both domestic and…
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Nadine Dorries reveals deepfake ordeal as NHS “revolving door” exposed and Iranian sisters sentenced
A former MP describes being violated by AI-generated abuse, an investigation reveals disgraced NHS bosses being rehired, and Iranian twins face death and prison terms for protesting; plus New Hampshire’s Senate primaries, a £7.8bn UK space strategy and Cavan Sullivan’s MLS form.
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Travellers are ordered to leave illegal site opposite Britain’s nuclear weapons factory where they built 13 static homes
A High Court judge has ordered a group of travellers to leave an illegal encampment opposite the Atomic Weapons Establishment’s Aldermaston site in Berkshire, where they had built 13 static homes during 2025. Judge Sylvia de Bertodano ruled that the families had “ridden roughshod over” a court injunction by deliberately moving onto the land, and…
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UK air traffic control problem strands hundreds of thousands of passengers
UK air traffic control provider Nats suffered a “technical issue” on Tuesday that grounded flights for hours, causing more than 1,000 cancellations and delays to hundreds of thousands of passengers, with disruption continuing into Wednesday. It was Britain’s third major air traffic control stoppage in just over three years, prompting fresh calls from airlines for…
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United Utilities pays £1m over sewage contamination at Fylde resorts
United Utilities has been fined nearly £1m after pleading guilty to five environmental permit offences over a raw sewage discharge along the Fylde coast in June 2023, which polluted popular holiday spots including Blackpool. Preston magistrates’ court ordered the company to pay £964,225 in fines and costs, in a case the Environment Agency classed at…
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Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink
Google has begun rolling out changes to its European travel search results to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, but says the revised results are noticeably worse for users. The move follows a €460 million ($543 million) fine imposed by the European Commission in July for favouring Google’s own services in travel and shopping…