Google parent Alphabet took a $1.2 billion charge in the fourth quarter related to exiting office space, a detail that flew largely under the radar in a busy week. – Getty Images Google parent company Alphabet this week reported a $1.2 billion charge in the fourth quarter to exit office space, a notable cost that […]
With glossy websites promising anyone can travel to the sunshine, stay in luxury accommodation and have surgery to “transform” their bodies, all for as little as a fifth of the cost of a single private operation in the UK, it’s easy to see why an estimated 150,000 Britons go under the knife in Turkey every […]
My 13-hour flight in Air India’s legacy Boeing 777 business class offered a lot of legroom but barely any privacy.Taylor Rains/Business Insider Air India has a reputation as having an awkward business-class product with regularly broken seats. Though the airline is introducing better products, the old seat will fly until at least 2025. I tried […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Russian man who flew on a plane from Denmark to Los Angeles in November without a passport or ticket is guilty of being a stowaway on an aircraft, a federal jury found Friday. Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Nov. 4 via Scandinavian Airlines flight 931 […]
Taiwan has said six Chinese balloons either flew over the island or through airspace just north of it, while Chinese warplanes and navy ships were also detected in the area. The dispatch of such balloons, which generally disappear into the Pacific to the east, appears to be on the rise, though their purpose has not […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his purported secret palace in Lake Valdai, Russia.Getty Images, Navalny.com Ukraine launched a drone attack on a St Petersburg oil terminal on Thursday, per multiple sources. One of the drones also flew over Putin’s palace at Valdai, a military source told RBC. Ukraine claimed one of the drones struck the […]
A teenager got on a flight to Puerto Rico when he was supposed to fly to Ohio.Tayfun CoSkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A 16-year-old was supposed to fly from Tampa to Ohio on December 22. But he ended up in Puerto Rico after Frontier Airlines didn’t scan his boarding pass, he says. Spirit Airlines also […]
Russia will not provide any explanations about an unidentified object that briefly entered Poland’s airspace until it receives evidence that shows the object was a Russian missile, Russia’s top diplomat in Poland said on Saturday. Poland’s defence forces said an unknown object travelled 24 miles into the country’s airspace on Friday from the direction of […]
Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail. So, Trump campaign operatives scrambled to fly copies of the phony certificates from Michigan and Wisconsin to […]
A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot on board earlier this month. The Cessna 208B aircraft was remote control-operated by a pilot from a control center. The innovation could one day help combat a growing pilot shortage, an aviation expert told CNN. A common cargo plane flew a standard 50-mile route last month […]