Company had struggled to increase post-pandemic demand before war in Iran pushed up jet fuel costs
Spirit Airlines has announced that it has gone out of business after the low-cost airline ran out of cash and a rescue attempt by the Trump administration appeared to stall.
The airline that once operated hundreds of daily flights on its bright yellow planes and employed about 17,000 people said that after 34 years it had “started an orderly wind-down of our operations, effective immediately”.
Continue reading...Three Australians among 175 activists taken by Israel from ships attempting to transport aid to Gaza say they have launched a hunger strike
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Three Australian activists say they have launched a hunger strike in Crete, after being left there by Israeli authorities following the interception of a flotilla attempting to transport aid to Gaza.
Ethan Floyd, Neve O’Connor and Zack Schofield – three of six Australians released after their ships were intercepted on Wednesday – said they and their colleagues were subjected to mistreatment while held for two days onboard an Israeli vessel.
Continue reading...Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes
Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book, as well as her new title, Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World.
Continue reading...From carpetbaggers to Melodifestivalen, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 What theatrical legacy did Mathew Prichard receive on his ninth birthday?
2 What conditions does the Tdap vaccine protect against?
3 The bestselling book in the US in 1981 was a guide to solving what?
4 What is selected each year at the Melodifestivalen?
5 Carpetbaggers were profiteers in the aftermath of which conflict?
6 The confectionery lokum is better known as what?
7 In 1996, which UK sport moved from a winter to a summer season?
8 Who founded the Peripatetic school of philosophy?
What links:
9 Thomas Tyers; Hester Piozzi; John Hawkins; James Boswell?
10 Admiralty Islands; New Britain; New Hanover; New Ireland?
11 Millbank, 1897; Merseyside, 1988; Cornwall, 1993; Bankside, 2000?
12 Sodium (1); carbon (2); oxygen (3); sulphur (4); tin (10)?
13 Kelpie; melusine; naiad; nixie; rusalka; selkie?
14 Igor Tudor at Spurs; Eric Ramsay at WBA; Brian Clough and Jock Stein at Leeds?
15 Made in America; -30-; Felina; Person to Person; The Iron Throne?
The star’s potent sexuality made him my ‘secret friend’ but, with my career in the arts stalling, his death led me to the life-changing decision to move to Minneapolis and maintain his legacy
I distinctly remember the first time I heard Prince. I was a dreamy, artistic child growing up in 80s rural Australia, feeling completely out of place. One day, I turned towards the cassette radio in my bedroom, hearing something totally different to the rock music I had grown up with – something electric and alive. It was Prince. My body moved. From that moment, he became my secret soul friend, his music carrying a powerful mix of sexuality and spirituality that I didn’t yet have the language for. Songs such as Controversy and Purple Rain felt like permission to be fully expressive, and fully myself.
My love for Prince remained as I grew up. I moved to New York to pursue a career in the arts, but never quite fully managed it, ending up as an arts administrator. I supported other artists, organised programmes, lived alongside creativity rather than inside it.
Continue reading...Staff warned news operations face 15% cut, above BBC-wide 10% target, as corporation pushes through £600m savings plan
The BBC’s news operation is to cut costs by a steeper-than-expected 15%, with staff told to expect heavy redundancies.
The division, home to about a quarter of all BBC staff, is being saddled with one of the highest cost-cutting targets as the corporation attempts to cut as many as 2,000 jobs in the biggest downsizing of the public service broadcaster in 15 years.
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