Europe’s largest and world’s fourth largest air carrier Lufthansa was majorly hit due to the contention between trade unions and Lufthansa management on wage negotiations resulting in disruption of flights from the former. This has hit more than 1650 flights’ functioning including the 50 international intercontinental flights. Only six of which will take off from Frankfurt am Main airport on Monday. Thousands of passengers are left stranded at several airports…

The Iron Man 3 premiere in London on Thursday night had Robert Downey Jr. making a big entrance in Tony Stark style. He had already thrilled fans in Leicester Square before stepping-in on a smoke-filled stadium. Robert tossed his sunglasses into the crowd and ran down the stairs to greet his co-stars for Iron Man 3.

David Beckham has become the ambassador for BSkyB in a long-term partnership which would see the English football captain supporting the broadcaster’s work in promoting the sport at grassroot level across the UK and Ireland. It must be noted that the appointment of David Beckham as Sky Sports ambassador comes after BT Sport’s acquisition of Tottenham and Wales winger Bale as a guest star for its 38 live Premier League…

Four UK terror blast plotters including Zahid Iqbal, 31, Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25, Umar Arshad, 24 and Syed farhan Hussain, 22 have been sentenced to imprisonment on Thursday. Out of the four Zahid Iqbal and Mohammad Sharfaraz, who are found guilty of plotting a remote controlled bomb planted on a toy car, have been sentenced to life in prison. They had plans to detonate a Territorial Army (TA) base in Luton. The…

Alex Song, the Cameroonian midfielder, who has been rendering services to FC Barcelona is much frustrated with his bench role in the team, his cousin footballer Rigobert Song, to whom Alex Song refers to as his uncle, has said. Rigobert also revealed that Alex also misses his former team Arsenal and that he doesn’t like the FC Barcelona. Despite big fishes including Manchester City and Inter Milan trying to rope…

A British coach driver died in a crash in French Alps during a heroic effort which saved the lives of 53 passengers after the brakes of the bus failed, leaving the driver with no choice but to ram it against a tree on the mountain’s side to avoid going over the cliff edge. The French Alps crash caused instant death of the brave driver. Moments ahead of the tragedy, the…

Mumford & Sons would be setting the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London afire on July 6 with what they call their ‘Summer Stampede Day Festival’. The Grammy Award wining folk rock band is lined up with some real hot stuff including ‘Vampire Weekend’, ‘Ben Howard’ and ‘Haim’ to cook it up there. General sale of tickets for Summer Stampede show will be available from April 19, 9.00 am onward.

Prior to the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, who died last Monday, the corpse of former Conservative PM will be relocated to the Chapel of St. Mary Undercroft in the Palace of Westminster on Wednesday. A parliamentary vote may be cast later on whether to annul Prime Minister’s Questions in order to permit MPs to attend the Margaret Thatcher funeral. Two MPs, George Galloway of the Respect Party and Dennis Skinner…

Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of Unite, the powerful trade union bloc, has been re-elected for another term of five years, with the fiery trade unionist obtaining in excess of 144,000 votes. His competitor, Jerry Hicks, attained nearly 80,000 votes. Len McCluskey’s re-election to the post of Unite’s General Secretary was followed by a comment from him that he was profoundly honoured on account of the trust that the members…