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24 May

Trump tour: Where is he going today?

US president Donald Trump has recently been in Saudi Arabia and Israel, but left the Middle East on Tuesday to make his first official visit to the Vatican.

15 May

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AirAsia plans expansion to China as the country sets its sights on becoming the world’s biggest aviation market

Budget airline AirAsia plans to enter the Chinese market, by setting up a new low-cost carrier in the central eastern city of Zhengzhou.

9 May

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Roll up! Roll up, for the magical Brexit tour!

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour The magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away Dying to take you away – The Beatles The New York Times, one of the world’s most respectable newspapers, is offering people (rich people mainly, as it costs a staggering $6,000 per person) a Brexit tour of

2 May

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A new $300m tunnel in Norway — first planned by the Vikings — is about to become a reality

A new Norwegian ship tunnel, described as the first of its kind and designed to bypass a highly dangerous area, has been included in the country’s latest national transport plan.

27 Apr

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How to receive $10,000 from United Airlines

United Airlines announced plans today to offer passengers up to $10,000 (£7,700) to give up their seats on overbooked flights from tomorrow onwards.

4 Apr

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Tesla overtakes Ford to become the second most valuable car maker in the US

Elon Musk’s Tesla now has a higher market value than Ford after its stocks surged yesterday.

31 Mar

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Major Gulf airlines respond to electronics ban with free wifi, laptops and iPads

Middle East airlines Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways will offer passengers flying to the US free laptops, wifi and iPads from next week in response to the US government’s electronics ban.

30 Mar

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Airbnb’s flight partnership is the startup’s next step in holiday domination

Airbnb is taking its holiday domination plan one step further with a partnership with Australian airline Jetstar.

27 Mar

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Are budget airlines building tomorrow’s cities?

The parent company of British Airways (BA) has announced that it will be launching a new budget long-haul airline called Level in June.

22 Mar

US startup aims to make all short-haul flights electric by 2037, but will it be possible?

Wright Electric, a US-based startup announced plans to make all journeys of less than 300 miles electric, and therefore zero-emissions, in the next 20 years.

22 Mar

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UK follows US lead and bans electronic devices from flights due to ISIS threat

Yesterday, the US department of homeland security (DHS) announced it would ban large electronic devices, including laptops, from flights coming from the Middle East and North Africa.

9 Mar

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Geneva Motor Show: China and India will still be building more than half the world’s cars in 2020

Today the 87th Geneva Motor Show has gotten underway.

6 Mar

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India is the new battleground for hyperloop technology

Hyperloop One, a US-based startup aiming to make ultra-high speed land-based travel a reality, is looking to bring the technology to India.

3 Mar

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Jeff Bezos wants Nasa to start preping the Moon for human settlement

One of the big worries for the future is that humans will destroy planet Earth, filling it up with rubbish and greenhouse gases, so that the planet is no longer habitable.

2 Mar

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Is this the beginning of the end for British aerospace company Cobham?

Cobham, the Dorset-based aerospace company today asked shareholders for a £500m injection — the second big cash call in just eight months.

2 Mar

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By 2020, you’ll be able to take a 5-hour train from London to Frankfurt

Direct trains from London St Pancras could take passengers all the way to Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city in Germany, within three years.

1 Mar

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Lords take on the government over Brexit; Snap Inc final IPO price; Saudi king is coming to Indonesia

These are the three things that will change the world today.

28 Feb

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These are the most expensive cities to buy property in the world

Oxford has been named the least affordable city to live in the UK.

24 Feb

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Aircraft manufacturer Boeing to open first European factory in the UK, quashing Brexit fears

Boeing, the aircraft, rocket and satellite manufacturer, has announced plans to open its first ever European factory in Sheffield, northern England today.

22 Feb

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Shell’s pushing hydrogen cars in the UK, but electric cars are still ahead

Royal Dutch Shell is set to unveil its first public filling station for hydrogen-powered cars in the UK — and the first for hydrogen cars on a UK motorway.

20 Feb

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Are automatic trains ever going to become a reality?

There’s plenty of speculation as to the future of how trains will get from one station to another.

14 Feb

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People who take the tube are exposed to eight times more air pollution than drivers, report finds

UK commuters who travel on the underground breathe in more than eight times as much polluted air as those who drive to work, according to a study published last week.