What happens to an airplane after it retires
Deciding when and how to retire an aircraft is a complicated job for airlines, even in normal times. With Covid-19, the world's fleet has been largely grounded. Many aircraft that might have flown for five, 10 or even more years are being sent to have their valuable parts and systems stripped, and their metals and other materials recycled. Read more...
Healthcare company controlled by Lord Ashcroft is given Covid-19 testing role
The deal, signed on December 20, requires his company, Medacs Healthcare, to provide staff for both lab and mobile testing over the next two years. Read more...
A Total Failure The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump
Members of the far-right group, who were among Donald Trumps staunchest fans, are calling him weak as more of them were charged for storming the U.S. Capitol. Read more...
The best-selling picnic basket in the world is from The Beach People
A handmade wicker basket has become the best-selling picnic basket in the world, and it has been bought more than 3,000 times since it launched in 2019. Read more...
UK in 'leading position' to track Covid variants, says Dido Harding
Baroness Dido Harding, the boss of NHS Test Trace, today added that the coronavirus testing system had led to 'substantially fewer' care home outbreaks in the second wave than the first. Read more...
For Companies Like Workhorse, A Race to Be the Tesla of Delivery Vehicles
Investors are betting that small companies like Workhorse will help popularize electric commercial vehicles. And Tesla aims to extend its reach. Read more...
Who is Amanda Gorman? 22-Year-Old Recites Poem at Biden Inauguration Video
Gorman set out to craft a poem that was both hopeful and realistic, one that reflected the political divisions that have fractured the country, but also the promise of greater unity. Read more...
The Mystery of the Painting Thieves Love
What is it about a Frans Hals painting housed at a tiny Dutch museum that has made it so popular with thieves, who have stolen it three times since 1988? Read more...
Keeping your camera on during a one hour Zoom meeting emits 1,000 grams of CO2, study reveals
The data processing and transmitting power needed for just an hourlong videoconference uses up to three gallons of water and an area of land equivalent to an iPad mini, according to a new study. Read more...
WhatsApp bans 250k accounts over child sex abuse images every month
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, has become a hotbed for criminality as texts sent on its platform are encrypted, meaning police are blind to the scale of child abuse images being shared. Read more...
Dominic Raab banded 'petty' over status of EU ambassador
Joao Vale de Almeida has not been given the same status as other ambassadors, with the Foreign Office declining to treat an international organisation in the same way as nation states. Read more...
Vaccination rates highlight stark differences between Israelis and Palestinians -- amid row over responsibility
Two young men work side-by-side in a butcher's shop. They live in the same teeming and densely packed town. One is fortunate -- he's eligible to get an Israeli Covid-19 vaccination. The other isn't. Read more...
SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship makes first Atlantic splashdown
In total there were 4,400lb of scientific research and other cargo that splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the West Coast of Florida at 0130 GMT this morning. Read more...
Man is shot dead by cops in a quiet regional street after carjacking turned into a police chase
A man wielding a knife has been shot dead by police on a Victorian road.It is understood the man was involved in a carjacking before he then allegedly crashed into a number of cars. Read more...