GLASTONBURY, England (Reuters) – Joyful fans grabbed spots at the front of Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage early on Saturday for Paul McCartney to headline the festival’s 50th anniversary, a performance delayed for two years by the global pandemic. McCartn…
Lufthansa expects flight operations to return to normal in 2023 – Welt
BERLIN (Reuters) – Lufthansa does not expect its global airline operations to return to normal until 2023 after staff shortages and booming demand amid the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions forced it to cancel some flights, Die Welt newspaper reported o…
Horror on Oslo Pride day as gunman goes on deadly rampage at gay bar
By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) -Terrified revellers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people and injuring 21 on the day the city was due to celebrat…
Britain’s BAE gets $12 billion U.S. contract related to ICBMs
(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Defense on Friday awarded BAE Systems a $12 billion contract to support intercontinental ballistic missile systems. Work related to the contract https://bit.ly/3OICaW7 is expected to be completed by the end of 2040, th…
Cricket-England centurion Bairstow revels in just being himself
LEEDS (Reuters) – Jonny Bairstow says England’s new desire to play test cricket “different to the norm” gave him the confidence to launch his brutal assault on New Zealand’s bowlers and wrestle back the momentum on the second day of the third test at H…
‘Abject failure’: Abortion rights movement fractures over post-Roe future
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Badly stung by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday, the abortion rights movement finds itself splintered, demoralized and faced with a startling landscape in which the procedure m…
UK officials rule out suspected case of foot and mouth disease
LONDON (Reuters) – British officials on Friday ruled out a suspected case of foot and mouth disease in the rural eastern English county of Norfolk. Movement restrictions and a temporary 10-km control zone for animals were enforced around a farm, accord…
Party now, pay later: Glastonbury a break from cost-of-living worries
By Paul Sandle and Sarah Mills GLASTONBURY, England (Reuters) – Festival-goers are determined to have a blast at Glastonbury and put the rising cost of fuel, food and drink to the back of their minds until they leave Worthy Farm on Monday after a weeke…
Soccer-Rooney steps down as Derby County boss
(Reuters) – Former Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney has stepped down as manager of Derby County, the League One club said on Friday, ending a turbulent 17-month spell during which his side were marred by financial trouble and relegated to the thi…
Ryanair says cabin crew strikes hitting less than 2% of flights
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Less than 2% of the 3,000 flights Ryanair had scheduled on Friday were impacted by cabin crew strikes that mainly hit Belgium, the Irish low-cost carrier said in a statement that forecast a similar level of disruption over the weeken…