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How do airlines adjust their routes to closed airspace?

When tensions rise in various conflicts across the globe, it’s a running joke that netizens swiftly log on to ‘monitor the situation’. That typically involves loading up X, your favourite news website’s live blog, and, of course, Flightradar24. As an airspace closes, flights swiftly leave the area, and we end…

Travellers denounce abusive prices after Spain’s train crash

Southern Spain’s high-speed train crash on Sunday 18 January left at least 42 people dead and over 150 injured. With rail services suspended between Madrid and Andalusia following the Adamuz accident, hundreds more passengers were left stranded. Azucena Esteban and Carlos Hidalgo, a married couple from Madrid who had planned…

This Finnish city just became a European Capital of Culture for 2026

By&nbspDianne Apen-Sadler Published on 21/01/2026 – 8:03 GMT+1 Following an opening festival last weekend, Oulu in Finland is now the newest European Capital of Culture for 2026. Taking over from Nova Gorica in Slovenia and Gorizia in Italy, the first cross-border European Capital of Culture, and Chemnitz in Germany, which…