Author: Darren Smith

Investigators say parts of the aircraft began breaking up before it hit the ground, and that severe weather remains a key focus of the inquiry Part of the tail of the Learjet that crashed in Greenacres, Florida, on Sunday has been found well away from the impact site, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday. NTSB member Tom Chapman said a section of the tail elevator was located between about 1.3 and 3.8 miles from the crater. He said several important pieces appear to have separated from the aircraft before it hit the ground. He also said there…

The former White House press secretary, who has criticised postal voting, says she photographed her completed ballot at the polling booth in New Hampshire Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary, has hit back at a social media user who suggested she had voted by post in the US midterm elections. Ms Leavitt, 29, posted a smiling selfie wearing an “I Voted” sticker on Tuesday morning, saying she had voted in her “beautiful home state of New Hampshire”. She also shared a photo of her completed ballot. When an X user wrote “So mail in ballots are ok.…

The Town of Gibsons in British Columbia says the decorations were meant as seasonal fun, but acknowledged they carry different meanings for transgender residents The Town of Gibsons, a small community in British Columbia about 30 miles northwest of Vancouver, has apologised for a Harry Potter-themed Halloween display after people online objected because of public comments by the series’ author, JK Rowling. The town announced the display at Pioneer Park on Facebook on 24 October. It turned off comments on the post and published an apology on Sunday, saying it recognised the display had “raised concerns among some members of…

Chief executive Melanie Perkins calls it the ‘hardest moment’ in the design firm’s 13-year history, after a year of slower growth and rising AI costs Canva, the Sydney-founded design software company, is cutting or relocating 1,271 roles in a restructuring its co-founder and chief executive Melanie Perkins says is needed to “refound” the business around small, empowered teams. In a letter to staff on Wednesday, she said some employees will lose their jobs and others will be asked to move to centralised hubs. The figure is about 22% of the workforce, according to News.com.au, and includes people whose roles change…

Washington says it targeted Iranian missile positions after Revolutionary Guards fired on a US aircraft, while Iran reports explosions on the island and puts forward a new 48-hour plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz The United States has carried out limited strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz, including Qeshm Island, US officials said on Monday, hours before the American midterm elections. An official, speaking anonymously because he was not authorised to comment, said the strikes were defensive and aimed at Iranian surface-to-air missile positions that had been used against US assets. Other officials said they were…

A rare particle decay recorded at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider could point to dark matter, but the result is short of a discovery, and the UK funding for the next upgrade has been withdrawn Scientists led from Cambridge have picked up signals from the smallest scale of nature yet probed, about 100 billion times smaller than an atom, in data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Some physicists call this realm the “zeptoverse”. The measurement, made by the LHCb experiment at CERN, could help build a more complete theory of how the Universe works and potentially help detect dark matter.…

British Transport Police want to speak to a man pictured on CCTV who they believe may have information, five weeks after the assault on a morning rush-hour service British Transport Police (BTP) have released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to after a woman was sexually assaulted on a Central line train in east London. The woman boarded at Mile End station at about 8.05am on 29 September and was assaulted by a man who got on at the same time. Detectives say the man in the image may have information that could help their ongoing…

The Mercedes driver says 2026 has been his first season with more bad days than good, after his team-mate sealed the drivers’ championship in Mexico City George Russell has said the 2026 Formula 1 season has been “tough to deal with” and has left him “often confused”, after Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli won the drivers’ championship. Russell started the year as favourite and won the opening race, but his form faded as Antonelli built momentum. Writing on Instagram after Sunday’s Mexico City Grand Prix, where he finished sixth, the Briton congratulated Antonelli and said the Italian “truly deserved the championship”.…

Media reports identify an Austin entrepreneur and his family among the nine people killed when a Learjet came down near West Palm Beach, as the NTSB says severe weather was a ‘significant factor’ An Austin tech entrepreneur, his wife, their two young children, a nanny and two friends have been named in media reports as victims of Sunday’s private jet crash near West Palm Beach, Florida. Adam Robinson, 45, and Helen Sharp, 40, were reported to have been travelling to the Bahamas with their family when the Learjet 60 crashed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Monday that…

Five boys aged 16 and 17 were seriously hurt in Chandler’s Ford on Saturday night, and one remains in a life-threatening condition Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after five boys were stabbed at a supervised Halloween party in Chandler’s Ford, Eastleigh. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old, both from Southampton, remain in custody. Two of the five victims, all aged 16 or 17, are still in hospital, and one is in a life-threatening condition. No one has died. Officers have been visiting schools and colleges to reassure pupils and…