By Agence France-Presse New documents surfaced in September indicating that Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel may have played a double role during World War II, serving not only as an informant for the Nazis but also as a member of the French Resistance. But a historian who has analysed the new evidence says he has “serious doubts” […]
By AFP British airline Virgin Atlantic on Tuesday operates the first transatlantic flight powered entirely by Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), but environmental groups criticized the event as “greenwashing”. The flight will leave London’s Heathrow airport at 1130 GMT bound for New York’s JFK. It is the first time that SAF will be used “in both […]
By Agence France-Presse Over 400,000 people in Crimea were left without power on Monday, after hurricane force winds and heavy rains battered the Russian-annexed peninsula over the weekend. One local official said a man on the peninsula’s southern coast was killed, according to early reports, while wind speeds of over 140 kilometers per hour (about […]