3 h. ago How to cool your home in a heatwave: expert tips for short and long term temperature control without air con

These engineer-approved quick fixes and climate change future proofing will help you combat high temperatures in your home now and in heatwaves to come

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4 h. ago RAF Brize Norton planes damaged as activists break into base ahead of flights

Pro-Palestine activists have broken into an RAF air base and damaged two of the air force's military aircrafts, the group has said. They used 'repurposed fire extinguishers to spray red paint into the turbine engines'

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4 h. ago Purdue Pharma's $7B opioid settlement plan could get votes from victims and cities

A judge could decide Friday whether to advance OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's $7 billion-plus plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids

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16 h. ago David Lynch’s belongings fetch $4.25m at auction, including scripts for unfinished film

Items ranged from video cameras and guitars to taxidermy deer heads, props from Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive – and the director’s personal coffee machinePersonal effects belonging to the film-maker David Lynch, who died in January, have fetched more than $4m at auction in Los Angeles, with the highest bid of $195,000 going to scripts for his unrealised film project Ronnie Rocket.Wednesday’s auction of almost 450 items included props from Lynch’s films, personal items such as video cameras and music equipment, his director’s chair, two taxidermy deer heads, his 35mm print of his debut feature Eraserhead – and his beloved La Marzocco GS/3 home espresso machine, which fetched $45,500 and presumably produces a damn fine cup of coffee. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago One dead and another rushed to hospital after small plane crashes on residential street outside Boston

Officials said a single-engine Mooney M20 aircraft hit the ground on Sam Fonzo Drive in Beverly, on the north-east outskirts of Boston, just before 9am on Thursday.

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23 h. ago NTSB issues urgent warning about engines on some Boeing and Airbus planes

Recommendations stem from 2023 incident in which Southwest flight filled with ‘acrid white smoke’

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25 h. ago Ryanair jet from UK crashes into barrier on runway at Greek airport wrecking the Boeing 737's wing

A Ryanair flight from London crashed into a barrier today after landing at a Greek airport. The

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26 h. ago Ryanair jet from UK crashes into barrier on runway at Greek airport wrecking the Boeing 737's wing after suffering 'severe turbulence' during flight

A Ryanair flight from London crashed into a barrier today after landing at a Greek airport. The

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27 h. ago Berlioz and Ravel album review – his orchestra is responsive to Mäkelä’s every move

Orchestre de Paris/Mäkelä(Decca)It may be missing that edge-of-your-seat excitement it had at last summer’s Proms, but Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique is full of colour and impact, and the energy keeps fizzing on Ravel’s La ValseKlaus Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris gave an unforgettable performance of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique at the BBC Proms last September, the electric atmosphere of which is not quite replicated on this recording, made in Paris a few months later.It’s all played with consummate skill by an orchestra who are clearly responsive to their conductor’s every move, as they were in Royal Albert Hall, and Mäkelä’s shaping of Berlioz’s music, from the gentle, vibratoless violins at the beginning to the careering witches’ dance of the finale, remains highly coloured and full of impact. Yet it all feels a little clinical; the edge-of-the-seat excitement is missing. Perhaps it has been engineered out: the sound feels over-tweaked, and although the spatial effects at ...

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27 h. ago Cheshire gets huge car parts centre the size of NINE FOOTBALL PITCHES creating 200 new jobs in the region

The enormous Parts Distribution Centre is located in Ellesmere Port to streamline the supply chain for the car maker's 10 global brands.

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28 h. ago Terrifying cause of private jet crash that killed beloved former rock star and music producer revealed

The Cessna 550 Citation plummeted into San Diego's Murphy Canyon neighborhood in the early hours of May 22 as it made its final approach for Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport.

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28 h. ago John Swinney did 'nothing' to save bus maker Alexander Dennis, says Anas Sarwar

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the First Minister’s claims that he found out about the issues facing the firm only weeks ago were “not true”.

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28 h. ago Air India plane crash had recently been fitted with a new engine, airline chairman reveals

The Air India plane that crashed and killed at least 270 people last week had one of its engines recently replaced, the airline's chairman has revealed. 

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28 h. ago Portuguese Air Force scrambles fighter jets as passenger plane declares 'bomb threat'

A plane was diverted to Faro Airport after officials detected a bomb threat this morning - Portuguese Air Force jet were deployed to assist the flight

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29 h. ago Documentarian Adam Curtis: 70, encyclopaedic and the BBC’s coolest asset

The cult documentary maker tells Hannah Ewens why he’ll never use words like ‘neoliberal’ in his films, how money has burrowed its way into our consciousness and why the real self has disappeared deep within our minds and we’ll never find it

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30 h. ago Air India releases new details about two engines on doomed London flight

Air India releases new details about two engines on doomed London flight  New York Post

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30 h. ago Loganair plane forced to make emergency landing after engine burst into flames

An investigation into the fire has since been carried out.

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31 h. ago ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to spaceHideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Aus...

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33 h. ago Florian Wirtz set for Liverpool medical today as 'true salary revealed'

Germany star to jet in and finalise British record transfer from Bayer Leverkusen after post-Nations League holiday

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33 h. ago Air India crash latest: Airline says one engine on plane was new as damaged black box to be sent to US for analysis

Indian aviation regulator finds no major safety flaws in Air India Dreamliners but flags maintenance and coordination issues

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