British Airways to resume most flights but delays still expected
British Airways has warned of further delays and cancellations as it resumes flights following the major IT failure that saw most services cancelled from Heathrow and Gatwick on Saturday.
Thousands of passengers had their plans disrupted, while some who did get to travel had to do so without luggage.
The airline has said it will refund reasonable costs to passengers, and assist them with rebooking flights.
Disruption is expected to continue throughout the bank holiday.
Customers have been advised customers to continue checking the status of their flight on its website www.ba.com before travelling to the airport. Heathrow Airport is providing an updated schedule on its website, as is Gatwick.
Marawi: Isis rampage in Philippines continues with 19 civilians killed
Official death toll from week of fighting rises to at least 85 as militants clash with security forces in Muslim-majority city
Islamist militants locked in street-to-street battles with security forces in a southern Philippine city have killed 19 civilians, the military said Sunday, bringing the official death toll from nearly a week of fighting to at least 85.
The violence prompted the president, Rodrigo Duterte, to declare martial law on Tuesday across the southern third of the Philippines to quell what he said was a fast-growing threat of militants linked to the Islamic State group.
Authorities said the militants had killed 19 civilians in Marawi, a mostly Muslim-populated city of 200,000 people. These included three women and a child who were found dead near a university.
To prevent another week of terror, our state must not become a vast Isis recruiting sergeant
British Libyans and Libyan exiles who had their passports returned to fight Gaddafi were always unlikely to return as model citizens
The massacre in Manchester is a horrific event born out of the violence raging in a vast area stretching from Pakistan to Nigeria and Syria to South Sudan. Britain is on the outer periphery of this cauldron of war, but it would be surprising if we were not hit by sparks thrown up by these savage conflicts. They have been going on so long that they are scarcely reported, and the rest of the world behaves as if perpetual warfare was the natural state of Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, South Sudan, North-east Nigeria and Afghanistan.
It is inevitable that, in the wake of the slaughter in Manchester, popular attention in Britain should be focussed on the circumstances of the mass killing and on what can be done to stop it happening again. But explanations for what happened and plans to detect and neutralise a very small number of Salafi-jihadi fanatics in UK, will always lack realism unless they are devised and implemented with a broad understanding of the context in which they occur.
Iran's Supreme Leader calls the Saudi leaders 'idiots'
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned Saudi Arabia's rulers they face "certain downfall" for their close ties and the recent arms deal with the US. He said the kingdom's leaders were "an inept and worthless bunch."
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized the $110 billion weapons deal announced last week between the US and Saudi Arabia, describing how the Saudi leaders were "idiots" and "milk cows for the Americans."
He was cited by the Fars news agency as calling the Saudi royal family "an inept and worthless bunch" that trades their wealth with "pagans and enemies."
The supreme leader also criticized the kingdom's leaders for siding with the US but ignoring the fate of people in Bahrain and Yemen, in reference to the Bahrain government's ongoing repression of political opponents and the civil war in Yemen, where Riyadh and Tehran are on opposing sides.Michel Temer faces tough fight for political survival
Hit by corruption allegations, Brazil's leader is likely to leave office, analysts say, though how and when are unclear.
Sam Cowie
Sao Paulo - Brazil's President Michel Temer is barely hanging on to power, accused of corruption and obstruction of justice following leaked secret recordings that appear to show him authorising bribes.
Temer has denied any wrongdoing and has so far refused to resign. Yet, analysts believe that his exit from the presidency is more than likely - though how and when still remain unclear.
The scandal comes just over a year since Temer manoeuvred to oust his predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, in a controversial impeachment process in which the former president was eventually removed after being accused of manipulating the federal budget.Map of 'imminent flooding' under development to urge prompt evacuation
(Mainichi Japan)
A land ministry research institute is developing a system of monitoring rivers in real time and sharing information on potential flooding with local governments and residents to help people evacuate before levees break or rivers overflow.
The "Kozui kikendo mieruka project (Project for Sharing Flood Disaster Risk with Local Governments and Local Communities)," launched by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)'s National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, is set to be completed in fiscal 2018.
According to MLIT, approximately 2,000 rivers across the country are currently being monitored at some 6,600 water-level checkpoints managed by the ministry and other entities. When water levels rise, information is disseminated on whether checkpoints -- in increments of several to about a dozen kilometers -- are flooded, are in imminent danger of flooding, should be watched with great vigilance, or should be watched with caution.
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