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Nats system fault forces cancellation of over two thousand flights
UK flight disruption caused by a fault in National Air Traffic Services (Nats) systems ran its course over two days before schedules returned to normal on Thursday, with no cancellations forecast for the day, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. The episode, which began with a technical failure on Tuesday, ultimately led to more than…
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Heartbroken family remember woman, 26, killed after being hit by taxi as driver, 41, is investigated for drug use
The family of Isobel “Izzy” Reyland, a 26-year-old woman from south Wales, have paid tribute to her a week after she was killed in a collision with a taxi in Liverpool. She died after being hit by a white Toyota Voxy private hire taxi on Aigburth Road at around 5.40pm the previous Wednesday, having moved…
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Flight chaos, Iran referral, Zelensky drone scare and Apple’s foldable debut
Nats fault grounds thousands of UK flights while Iran faces UN Security Council referral; Zelensky’s plane reportedly targeted near Moldova; Britain bans West Bank settlement imports; Tate brothers held in Miami; Apple launches £1,600 iPhone Duo.
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How I brought down El Chapo: Agent tells how he tapped drug lord’s phone and saw him order hits, demand ‘slim’ prostitutes…and reveal a surprising soft side
Eric Balliet, a retired US Homeland Security Investigations agent, has described how he helped capture Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán by intercepting the Sinaloa Cartel leader’s phone messages, which ultimately led investigators to his hideout. Balliet’s account, published to coincide with the release of his memoir *Kingpins & Coyotes* and the Netflix drama…
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‘Don’t Say Good Luck’ movie review: A familiar cancer dramedy that coasts on charm and sincerity
Don’t Say Good Luck, a Netflix dramedy produced by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison but starring his daughter Sunny Sandler, follows theatre-obsessed teenager Sophie as she lands the lead role in her school’s production of Waitress just as her mother Elizabeth’s cancer relapses. The review argues the film exceeds expectations for a Sandler-produced Netflix release, treating…
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US forces obliterate suspected ‘narco-terrorist’ vessel in lethal Eastern Pacific strike, killing 3
US forces killed three suspected drug traffickers in a strike on a vessel in the Eastern Pacific on 9 September, the latest in an escalating American military campaign against alleged cartel smuggling operations in Latin America. The strike was carried out by Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere under US Southern Command, with officials citing “confirmed…
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TOM KELLY: How many of the new luxury hotels in Albania buzzing with British tourists were built with money made from drugs sold in… Britain
An investigation has found that some of the luxury hotels and resorts in Albania popular with British tourists have been financed with proceeds from drug trafficking into the UK, highlighting how criminal profits earned in Britain are being laundered through the Balkan country’s booming construction and tourism industries. This matters because more than a million…
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Jeremy Clarkson and Sir Stephen Fry call on health secretary to expand prostate cancer screening
Jeremy Clarkson, Sir Stephen Fry and other high-profile figures, including former prime ministers Lord David Cameron and Rishi Sunak, have written to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper urging her to overturn a decision restricting NHS prostate cancer screening. The letter follows a May ruling by the UK National Screening Committee limiting testing to just 1,500 men…
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Dolly Parton ‘could not bear negative things’ and kept her cancer diagnosis from fans and family
Dolly Parton’s sister, Stella Parton, has revealed why the country music legend chose to keep her cancer diagnosis private from most of her fans and even parts of her own family before her death. Speaking ahead of a CBS Mornings interview airing on 10 September, Stella explained that Dolly “could not bear negative things” and…
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Manhattan prostitute pleads guilty to killing 3 men with fentanyl-laced drugs in robbery scheme
A Manhattan woman has pleaded guilty to killing three men by feeding them fentanyl-laced drugs and then robbing them while they lay unconscious. Tabitha Bundrick, 39, admitted the killings took place between April 2023 and February 2024, targeting clients she met while working as a prostitute, in a case Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg described…