5 h. ago ‘Losing hope with every day that passes’: torment of the ships’ crews abandoned at sea

Thousands of seafarers are left on board their vessels in foreign waters, unpaid, with scant supplies – and no way of getting home When Vihaan* set off from his home in Tamil Nadu, south India, to work on a vessel crossing the Bay of Bengal into neighbouring Bangladesh, he told his family he would be gone a few months. After delivering his cargo of stone to Bangladesh’s Kutubdia Island, the marine engineer was due to head home in March 2024 to disembark at Thoothukudi port, India.But that month, the rusting tug, the Navimar 3, which was being operated by Middle East Marine (MEM), was detained by the authorities in Bangladesh due to unpaid fees. For almost a year, Vihaan has become a virtual prisoner on board, he says, forced to work without pay to keep the vessel safe, amid strong currents where it is anchored off the island in the cyclone-prone bay. His passport and certification documents are being held by a local agent for the Dubai-based company. With no means of getting home, n...

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17 h. ago Xbox Game Pass reveals 11 day one game releases coming this year

2025 is looking hot for Xbox Game Pass subscribers, as the service has revealed a number of new titles coming to subscribers, both soon and deep into the year.

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19 h. ago Is a Trump backlash on its way? Well, eggs are as expensive as ever – and you can’t eat the culture wars | Arwa Mahdawi

The 78-year-old president is the ultimate comeback kid, but he is not a king and he is certainly not a god. As prices rise and consumer sentiment slumps, he may come to regret his election promisesEach new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry and Donald Trump passes a wild executive order. To liberally paraphrase Macbeth, every day seems to bring some new reason to scream into the void. The good news, however, is that even diehard Trumpers seem to be getting sick of all the chaos. A month into Trump’s second act, there are signs that the honeymoon is over and a backlash may be brewing. For certain Republican voters, regret may be setting in.First, the polling. A Harvard CAPS/Harris survey published on Monday gave Trump a 52% approval rating. Meanwhile, three national polls show a decline in support for the president, with most Americans saying he hasn’t done enough to lower prices and has overstepped his presidential powers. A CNN poll published on Thursday found that 47...

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44 h. ago ‘I’m turning away six people a day at Gatwick’: Birthday trip wrecked as staff reject valid passports again

Exclusive: Four years on, some airport ground handlers do not understand post-Brexit passport rules

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3 d. ago ‘Sit and wait’: London area Sunwing passengers stranded for fifth day as flight cancellations continue

‘Sit and wait’: London area Sunwing passengers stranded for fifth day as flight cancellations continue  CTV News

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4 d. ago Des Lynam shows true colours as he makes Gary Lineker and Match of the Day admission

Des Lynam passed the Match of the Day torch to Gary Lineker, and the iconic broadcaster has shared his own thoughts on the ex-England striker after all his years hosting the BBC show

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6 d. ago Woman died with 'blood oozing out of eyes' after being told she didn't have killer disease

An inquest has heard how Sophie Ward was discharged from hospital, but her condition worsened before she passed away the following day.

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6 d. ago Cruise expert issues warning to passengers before they leave ship for the day

A cruising expert has issued a warning to tourists ahead of their next trip, urging them to avoid making a few key mistakes that could put them at higher risk of danger

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7 d. ago Your Life Is Manufactured by Tim Minshall review – object lessons

A deep dive into the world of making things that means you’ll never look at your kettle in quite the same way againIt’s some measure of the extent of urbanisation that the bookends to our day may not be birdsong but the sound of a kettle as the water in it reaches boiling point. That “tock” is made by a miniature device, a small disc consisting of alternating strips of two different metals. When exposed to heat, the metals expand at different rates, the disc gradually curves, and a switch is tripped, cutting off electricity to the kettle. Few of us know this; we write odes to nightingales, not thermostats, even though it is the latter that provides our morning soundtrack, those sonic notches that mark the passing of each day. Tock, tock, tock.I thought little about those metallic notes until I read Tim Minshall’s new book, an ambitious exploration of the world of manufacturing. In it, he examines the myriad things that surround us, from transistors to ice-cream: the i...

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7 d. ago Watch: Aftermath of Delta plane crash after flight 4819 flips over in Toronto

Watch scenes of the wreckage of a Delta Airlines passenger jet at Toronto Pearson Airport on Tuesday, 18 February, one day after the plane flipped upside down upon landing with 80 people on board.

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7 d. ago Watch live: Aftermath of Delta plane crash after flight 4819 flips over in Toronto

Watch live morning scenes of the wreckage of a Delta Airlines passenger jet at Toronto Pearson Airport on Tuesday, 18 February, one day after the plane flipped upside down upon landing with 80 people on board.

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