Indian pilot Smit Machchhar has said he opened the cockpit door of the Israel-bound Flydubai plane to allow passengers to come in and halt its rapid descent. In a video call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Capt Machchhar said he was on the ground and still being attacked by his co-pilot when he realised
Since the fighting erupted, banking services in Tigray have been suspended by the government. Access to the internet has also been cut – though it is not clear who ordered the closure. A separate source in Alamata told the BBC there was a worsening humanitarian crisis in the area, as the town swelled with people
Airbnb’s CEO Brian Chesky doesn’t think hiring is just HR’s job. Despite being very busy running the $98 billion rental company and managing over 8,200 employees, he sets hours aside daily to recruiting. And if his managers don’t want him that involved in their hiring decisions, his advice is blunt: leave. “I probably spend three
An Afrikaner lobby group is holding a vigil on Saturday with thousands of white crosses on Washington’s National Mall to commemorate what it says are victims of “farm attacks”. Claims of genocide against white South Africans have been discredited by every political party in the country, including by those representing Afrikaners. “I’m an Afrikaner from
Two-thousand years ago, a Roman author and lawyer named Pliny the Younger wrote an account of one of the most destructive disasters in human history. He chronicled Mount Vesuvius’ eruption and the subsequent burial of Pompeii, which killed his uncle Pliny the Elder and about 2,000 others. The detail in Pliny the Younger’s account and
UNITED NATIONS — Yemen’s internationally recognized government pressed world leaders anew Thursday for help defeating the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, saying that their new perch along one of the world’s busiest waterways presents an international economic risk. The Houthis — who have controlled Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and much of the country’s north for over a decade
