16 h. ago Canary Wharf's Fairgame puts the 'fun' in funfair – but be sure to leave the kids at home

After day in the office, our team of writers were thirsty for a pint - and victory - and we knew exactly where to go. If you miss the fun of the funfair, look no further than east London

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21 h. ago New York helicopter broke apart in midair before deadly crash, report shows

NTSB report is US government’s first public explanation about what might have happenedUS transportation safety officials have released images of the New York City sightseeing helicopter that crashed earlier this year, killing a family of five and the pilot, showing that the aircraft began to break apart in midair, according to a preliminary report released on Wednesday.The report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is the government’s first public explanation about what might have happened on 10 April, when the Bell 206L-4 helicopter plunged into the river. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Pakistan shoots down drone near naval base in the city of Lahore, officials say

Pakistan’s air defense system shot down a drone early Thursday near a naval air base in the eastern city of Lahore, police and security officials said

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29 h. ago Police in Florida shoot dead woman in car park following disturbance

Broward Sheriff’s Office said police were called to a disturbance in Deerfield Beach, which is a city in Florida, where it is said three officers opened fire at a woman

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33 h. ago Salt Lake City and Boise adopt official pride flags to skirt Republican bans

New emblems approved by city councils in defiance of bans on ‘unofficial flags’ on government propertyEarlier this year, Utah and Idaho’s Republican-controlled legislatures passed bans on flying the rainbow pride flags and other “unofficial flags” on government property.Leaders in both states’ capital cities, Salt Lake City and Boise, recently devised an inventive workaround – changing their official flags. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Salt Lake City and Boise make pride flags official city emblems, skirting new flag ban laws

The Democratic controlled cities of Salt Lake City and Boise adopted new city flags this week that show support for LGBTQ+ people in defiance of new laws passed by their states’ Republican-controlled Legislatures that banned the traditional rainbow pride flags at schools and government buildings

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43 h. ago Canary Wharf fire: Dozens evacuated as blaze rips through east London flat

The latest blaze is the third to break out at New Providence Wharf since 2021

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48 h. ago Canary Wharf fire: Blaze rips through east London flat months after blaze at same development

The latest blaze is the third to break out at New Providence Wharf since 2021

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49 h. ago Fire rips through flat in east London months after blaze at same development

The latest blaze is the third to break out at New Providence Wharf since 2021

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51 h. ago Huge fire erupts opposite O2 arena as flames pour from tower block

Three people have been taken to hospital after a huge blaze ripped through a tower block near Canary Wharf in east London with around 60 fire fighters tackling the inferno

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65 h. ago A Philadelphia woman is the 8th person to die from the January crash of a medical plane

City officials in Philadelphia say an eighth person has died from the crash of a medical transport plane in January

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2 d. ago Mystery pollen bomb strikes London: Baffled residents complain of tight chests, red eyes, and brain fog

Londoners have complained of a 'pollen bomb' across the city over the weekend. Despite the Met Office forecasting low pollen levels, park-goers were left 'choking' on thick clouds of pollen.

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3 d. ago Sudan’s paramilitary unleashes drones on key targets in Port Sudan, officials say

Sudanese military officials say paramilitary fighters unleashed drones on the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, hitting key targets there, including the airport, the port and a hotel

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3 d. ago ‘You feel the huge weight of history’: the room where Nazi Germany surrendered

Military armistice ending second world war was signed in this nondescript Reims schoolhouse before VE DayFor a building that witnessed one of the pivotal moments of European history, it is oddly unremarkable: a nondescript red-brick schoolhouse on an unexceptional street on the wrong side of the railway tracks in Reims, eastern France.In May 1945 it was the Collège Moderne et Technique. Students came and went. Passersby may have wondered, briefly, at the two US military police officers outside the doors, but Americans were everywhere – the city had been liberated in August 1944. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago US has a $21 trillion underground network for only the wealthy to hide out in a ‘near

Catherine Austin Fitts, who worked under the first Bush administration, claimed the US has built secret underground cities.

Economics

3 d. ago Vatican to cut phone signal during conclave to elect new pope

Transmission will be deactivated from 3pm on 7 May and restored after announcement of new pontiffThe Vatican has announced that it will cut the phone signal within the tiny city state during the conclave to elect a new pope – but this would not affect St Peter’s Square.The office of the presidency of the Governorate of the Vatican City State said that “all the transmission systems of the telecommunications signal for mobile telephones present in the territory of the Vatican City State will be deactivated” from 3pm on 7 May. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The Canary Wharf restaurant with stunning views of the London from 38 floors high

The Canary Wharf restaurant with stunning views of the London from 38 floors high  News Shopper

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3 d. ago Massive repair job on leaky NYC aqueduct will take a few more years to finish

City officials say a $2 billion project to fix a massive leak in a water tunnel that supplies about half of New York City’s water won’t be completed for a few more years

Society

5 d. ago ‘These people are disposable’: how Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe

Moscow’s intelligence services have launched a new type of attack on the west, violent but piecemeal and hard to proveSerhiy was just about to board a coach bound for Germany when Polish security services detained him at the bus station in the city of Wrocław.In his backpack, the officers found firelighter cubes, a juice bottle filled with paraffin, a lighter, two pocket knives, a mini handsaw and a face mask. Later, when they searched the mobile phone of the 49-year-old Ukrainian refugee, they found a pdf of a Russian-language book called Modern Pyrotechnics. It contained detailed instructions on how to start fires and detonate explosives. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Elon Musk’s company town: SpaceX employees vote to create ‘Starbase’

Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community approve plan to create new cityVoters in a small patch of south Texas voted on Saturday to give Elon Musk a town to call his own, officially creating a new city called Starbase in the area where Musk’s SpaceX holds rocket launches.A couple of hundred residents of what was previously known as Boca Chica decided to make their unincorporated neighborhoods into a town that will grant them the authority to pass city ordinances. Continue reading...

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