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Breitling announces new partnership with Etihad Airways
Both companies have an equal passion for aviation, quality and precision
Sci-fi ‘titan’ Clarke buried in Sri Lanka
Visionary science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke was buried on Saturday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, where the nation paused for an international ”titan” it had adopted as…
Sci-fi guru Arthur C Clarke dies at 90
Pioneering science fiction writer and visionary Arthur C Clarke, best known for his work on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age…
Global whistle-blowing website shut down
A secretive Swiss bank landed an apparently novel censorship blow against the internet this week. Anyone who tried to call up Wikileaks.org, a global website devoted to…
Britain says North Sea incident ‘contained’
Britain evacuated of oil workers from a North Sea accommodation platform on Sunday after reports of a bomb threat but officials said the incident was quickly contained and there…
Former Rhodesian leader Ian Smith dies
Ian Smith, who defied the world in 1965 when he led 270Â 000 white Rhodesians in a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain rather than accept moves to black-majority…
British jets intercept eight Russian bombers
Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) scrambled four Tornado jets on Thursday to intercept eight Russian long-range bombers, the Ministry of Defence said. ”In the early hours of this…