Airbus says A380 superjumbo production will end
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has said it will stop making its A380 "superjumbo", the world's largest passenger aircraft.
In a statement, the company said it would make its last deliveries of the aircraft in 2021.
The decision comes after Emirates, the largest customer of the A380, reduced its order.
The costly aircraft has struggled to compete with more efficient, smaller models.
What did Airbus say about the decision?
In a statement on Thursday, Airbus said Emirates would reduce its A380 order book from 162 to 123 aircraft.
'It was execution': 13 dead in Brazil as state pushes new gang policy
Recent raid suggests police are implementing ‘shoot-to-kill’ tactics that Rio’s new governor campaigned on
When he was campaigning to become the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Wilson Witzel promised “shoot-to-kill” tactics against armed members of the city’s powerful drug gangs.
Now, after a deadly operation in which 13 people were killed, fears are rising that police in Rio are already implementing the policy.
Police and state prosecutors have opened investigations following the bloody operation in the Fallet/Fogueteiro favela in central Rio last Friday.
Shamima Begum: London schoolgirl who ran away to join Isis ‘does not regret’ decision but wants to return home
'I just could not endure any more,' says pregnant teenagerZamira Rahim
One of three schoolgirls who travelled from east London to join Isis in Syria has said she has no regrets but now wants to return to the UK.
Shamima Begum, now 19, left with two of her friends, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase, during the half-term break from the Bethnal Green Academy in February 2015.
The heavily pregnant teenager who recently fled to a Syrian refugee camp told The Times: “I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago. And I don’t regret coming here.”
Vexed in VittelFrench Town Becomes a Focal Point in War over Water
A battle is brewing in Vittel over Nestlé. The groundwater is running low in the French spa town and the multinational conglomerate is fighting for its rights to the commodity -- and for its reputation.
By Barbara Supp and Maurice Weiss (Photos)
Monsieur Guy de la Motte-Bouloumié is sitting in his villa, located on a hill with a sweeping view. He has polite things to say about Swiss multinational Nestlé, which acquired his family inheritance, the Société générale des Eaux minerales de Vittel, almost 30 years ago. The bottled water, sold around the world under the Vittel brand, has been in the company's hands ever since, along with all the challenges that come along with the marketing of it.
In the times back when the Bouloumiés were in charge, locals weren't writing things like, "Stop, stop the drilling!" on hay bales on the road. They didn't wear yellow vests to protest the elites, and they didn't have the internet for putting together detailed protest pages. The times have indeed changed. People are feeling more anxious these days, and Vittel is starting to feel it too.
Manafort bombshell deepens mystery in Russia probe
Updated 0855 GMT (1655 HKT) February 14, 2019
Paul Manafort's latest legal debacle deepened the core intrigue underlying special counsel Robert Mueller's probe: Why have so many of President Donald Trump's associates been caught lying about contacts with Russians?
In a significant new twist in the 2016 election saga, a judge ruled Wednesday that Trump's ex-campaign chairman "intentionally" lied to investigators, breaking a deal he had reached as a cooperating witness.
The lies, including about meetings with a suspected Russian intelligence asset, were about issues intimately linked to Mueller's wider inquiry, which includes a look into whether there were any links or coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian election interference effort.
13 same-sex couples file suits for marriage equality in Japan
Thirteen same-sex couples demanding marriage equality filed lawsuits against the government at district courts across Japan on Valentine's Day on Thursday, arguing that its refusal to allow them to marry is unconstitutional and discriminatory.
Each of the 26 plaintiffs is seeking 1 million yen in compensation, claiming that the government's failure to recognize same-sex marriage has caused them emotional distress in what their lawyers say is the country's first lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of such negligence.
The damage suits were jointly filed by the couples who are in their 20s through their 50s, and include Japanese and foreign partners, at the district courts in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Sapporo.
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