• PA Media: UK News

    State involvement in MoD cyber attack cannot be ruled out, Grant Shapps says

    The Defence Secretary said there is evidence of ‘potential failings’ of the contractor behind the hacked payroll system, named as SSCL in Parliament.

  • Associated Press

    From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere

    In sweltering Brazil, worst-ever flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in the world's largest election in India are fainting in heat that hit as high as 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people in Thailand and set records there and in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives and Myanmar.

  • CBC

    Sydney Airport Authority hopes to see Halifax flights return

    The CEO of the Sydney Airport Authority says he wants direct flights to Halifax to return."That's my number 1 priority and the priority of everyone I speak to in our community. 'Where do you want to go?' It's Halifax. You can connect from Halifax to just about anywhere, so that's what we're primarily focused on," Myles Tuttle told CBC News on Tuesday. Air Canada once offered direct flights between Halifax Stanfield International Airport and the J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport but officially