4 h. ago Accidental tourist TikTokers looking for flight ‘to Nice’ wind up in Africa’s Tunis

The travelers somehow did not realize they were headed to Tunisia — despite it presumably being written on their boarding passes — until they were on the plane

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6 h. ago American tourists book flight to France but end up 400 miles away on different continent

Brittney Dzialo and her friend were travelling around Europe and looking to fly from Rome to Nice, France, when they made a huge mistake that left them miles away from where they thought they were

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6 h. ago Americans book flight to France but end up in Africa after mortifying mistake

Two American tourists ended up on the wrong continent after claiming to mix up a popular French city with a place in North Africa after making a blunder at the airport

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3 d. ago Pilot admits trying to turn off plane during flight 'while high on mushrooms'

Joseph Emerson, 46, attempted to cut the engine fuel supply of a Horizon Air passenger flight to San Francisco with than 80 people onboard while 'high on magic mushrooms'

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4 d. ago From slaughterhouse worker to literary giant: George Saunders wins National Book Award

George Saunders has been named this year's winner of the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters

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6 d. ago Terrified flight passengers 'shaken up' as plane collides with another aircraft

A United Airlines flight was involved in a collision on the tarmac at San Francisco International Airport on Monday, with passengers on board both planes left terrified

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1 week ago Book burning, Latin prayers – and a lot of kids: inside the American ‘trad family’ movement

The movement towards simple, Christian living can be a yearning for order in a chaotic age. It’s also alarmingly retrogradeA cool evening air was descending on the 25-acre farmstead, blowing across the pond, around the barn, through the apple orchard and into the windows of Mike and Jenny Thomas’s two-century-old, red brick farmhouse.The dinner hour had come. Edith, five, and George, three, enthusiastically rang a bell hanging near the kitchen door, sending metallic peals back into the early dusk. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago United Airlines flight reportedly delayed after passenger smokes cannabis in plane toilets

Crew did not want to risk being affected by secondhand smoke, so they deplaned and requested a new crew

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3 w. ago The Map That Leads to You review – sugary Amazon romance works best as travelogue

Rising star Madelyn Cline is a charming lead in an unusually glossy streaming weepie that leads to overfamiliar territoryA book-loving American woman in her 20s decides to spend time in Europe before she settles into the safety of a finance job in New York City, but she ends up falling for a man who is harbouring a tragic secret about his future. She’s played by an in-house Netflix star, he’s played by a non-American actor known for his role in a hit TV show. The film is based on a novel and is premiering on a streaming platform this month. While this might not be dramatically similar enough to become a Dante’s Peak/Volcano situation, it’s hard not to watch Amazon’s The Map That Leads to You, out this week, and frequently think about Netflix’s loosely similar My Oxford Year, released at the start of August.What immediately separates the two, and often separates Netflix and Amazon movies in general, is the aesthetic. My Oxford Year is every bit a TV movie while The Map That Leads to ...

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3 w. ago Ligue 1 fans are given unprecedented TV access – but only to old storylines

The league’s new TV channel will show everything from team talks to dressing room celebrations, but not a title raceBy Get French Football NewsAn elaborate exercise in window dressing is perhaps how to best describe the return of Ligue 1 football. With the league-owned Ligue 1+ taking over broadcasting duties and with a desperate need to “add value” to the “product”, there was a sweeping range of innovations for the return of top-flight football.Viewers were treated to France World Cup winner Djibril Sidibé dialling in from the Toulouse dressing room following their win over Nice; Nantes manager Luís Castro providing a mid-match tactical overview during their defeat to PSG; images of raucous dressing room celebrations, of pre-match preparations, team talks, you name it. Stadiums become panopticon prisons, and omnipresent cameras erode any mystery that remains in the relationship between those who play the sport and those who watch it. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar review – whimsical fantasy in a kingdom long, long ago

In this first adult novel from the acclaimed children’s author, an immortal magician returns to tell the story of a royal court where he cast his spells some 500 years beforeThe American author Louis Sachar’s most celebrated book, 1998’s YA novel Holes, was a huge word-of-mouth success on both sides of the Atlantic. Its short, punchy chapters tell the story of plump, hapless Stanley Yelnats, sent to a summer camp for wayward boys, where a terrifying Warden has peculiar ideas about character reformation. The 5ft-deep holes the boys are required to dig turn out to have a surprising purpose. Shifts of time, register and perspective render a simple premise mesmerisingly intricate. It has peril, love, crime, wickedness, redemption and friendship in, well, spades.A quarter of a century later, Sachar has written his first supposedly adult novel, in which many of the same ingredients reappear. A man “dressed like a typical American tourist”, but with an odd habit of storing cake crumbs in t...

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last month American Airlines passenger offers bizarre excuse after he fought with female flight attendant who caught him vaping

Peter Nguyen went viral earlier this week after he was busted vaping in the bathroom on a flight from Phoenix to San Francisco.

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