In a daring assault on a KLM flight, German commandos have arrested two men on an aeroplane preparing to take off from Cologne airport.

The blog i'm not sayin, i'm just sayin has put together a flight plan of US Airways Flight 1549 using the live flight tracking log at flightaware.com. According to the various news reports, less than a minute after takeoff the Airbus A320 apparently ran into a flock of birds somewhere over the Bronx Zoo. With engines in trouble and eventually going dead, the flight path indicates the air...

Provide quality work for men and women with a living wage that takes into account the real and current cost of healthy living. Now the solution to health inequality is a living wage campaign? "Quality work"? Have these people been taking too many bong hits with the sociology crowd? Just by whom and how are these to

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of committing terror offences, police say. Two of the men were held at Manchester Airport, while the third was detained in nearby Accrington. Do we know anything else at all about these men? Well, they are "Asian" apparently, living in an "Asian" area of Blackburn? Can you spot the missing word - the word the BBC does not want to say? That's right - t...

Four years ago, Melanie Phillips wrote an article about conspiracy theorists: despite the fact that we imagine we are living in the most enlightened and rational society in the most enlightened and rational age known to mankind, a startling proportion of us appear to have taken leave of our senses. […] We are living through a flight from

There is plenty of brownfield land to build on, but the problems of urban living are adding to development pressure on rural areas.

The proportion of young men living at home is growing, while young women are more likely to have a baby before 25 than get married, according to the latest social trends survey published by the Office for National Statistics

We are in to the last half hour of the . This time there is a real Dragon capsule, a vehicle which will be tested in orbit and then put through a re-entry, the first to be done by a private venture. This is a difficult sequence and even partial success is a major step forward. It is the second flight of a designed from the ground up launch vehicle; the first flight of a...

Barack Obama now joins the elite club of men that can lay claim to the title ‘President of the United States’. The photograph above, taken a few days ago, I feel is particularly impressive as it shows the incoming and outgoing US Presidents alongside all the other living Presidents. The last such meeting was in

Having complained about British Airways and there poor customer services I was expecting to have a semi horrible flight. Now I hate flying it makes no difference if I am flying BMI or a budget airline like Ryannair I am still scared. The last flight I took, excluding Saturday, I discovered the bar on the plane was free so decided to see if Gin would calm my nerves and it did. So on this flight I d...