Passenger breaks his leg 30 minutes into a seven-hour Air New Zealand flight from Bali to Auckland after plane is hit by severe turbulence: ‘It snapped in half’

By Makayla Muscat For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:20 BST, 19 April 2024 | Updated: 01:36 BST, 19 April 2024 A plane passenger whose leg ‘snapped in half’ when the aircraft was hit by turbulence as he was returning from the toilet had to endure six hours of agony  before it reached its destination. Niko … Read more

Two killed in horror sheep attack as cops forced to shoot rampaging beast dead after finding bodies lying in paddock

A COUPLE are believed to have been killed by a sheep after their bodies were discovered in a paddock in New Zealand. Cops were confronted by the ram after the grim discovery and were forced to shoot the rampaging beast. 1 A man and woman are believed to have died in a suspected ram attackCredit: … Read more

Eleanor Catton among 3 Canadian authors shortlisted for $204K Carol Shields Prize

Eleanor Catton is among the five North American authors shortlisted for the second iteration of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.  The $150,000 USD ($203,971.50 Cdn) prize recognizes the best fiction book by a woman or non-binary writer from the U.S. and Canada. It is presently the largest international literary prize for women writers. Each of the four remaining finalists will … Read more

The airline with the best economy seats in the world – and you can even book private beds

ECONOMY travellers should head to one particular airline after it voted as having the best economy class in the world. The latest awards were handed out for 2024 in the annual Airline Excellence Awards by Airlineratings.com. 4 Air New Zealand has the best economy seats in the world, according to an annual airline awardsCredit: Getty … Read more

Go with the flow, she advises Asian visitors to New Zealand – as she did in affair with David Bowie after video shoot

Ching has agreed to talk to me about Bowie and that video. But first we are in travel mode. Ching and David Bowie in a still from the video for Bowie’s China Girl. They portrayed an affair on screen, and had one off screen. The sometime model, actress and now hospitality doyenne has some firm … Read more

Taiwan’s Indigenous tribes could hold the key to its independence – POLITICO

Taiwan’s Indigenous tribes could hold the key to its independence – POLITICO Skip to main content Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to … Read more

The Thrill on the Ground at the Women’s World Cup

The third official edition of the Women’s World Cup was held in 1999, in the United States. The home team won. The experience, and the victory, transported women’s soccer—which, like all soccer in the U.S., existed then in the margins of the American sports world—into something approaching the mainstream. Records were broken for match attendance … Read more

New satellite will track elusive methane pollution from oil and gas industry globally

A privately funded satellite is set to push methane tracking into a new era, once it launches into space on Monday. A collaborative mission between Environmental Defense Fund, Google, the Government of New Zealand and several other partners, MethaneSAT will track methane emissions around the globe in attempts to identify and quantify sources spewing the climate-heating greenhouse gas.  For 20 … Read more

EU’s pretending to be an honest trade cop – POLITICO

Given these power dynamics, the protests resulted in two key concessions: First, the EU put its trade talks with Mercosur nations Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay on hold. Second, it carved out a rule that would have forced farmers to leave part of their land untouched, resting the soil and hopefully allowing biodiversity to flourish. … Read more

My six nights in the Loire… for the price of a bottle of Sancerre: Here’s how the home-swap market can be an absolute bargain

‘It’s like dating… but with your house, not your heart,’ is how one fan of home-swapping holidays summed them up to me. Since houses (sadly not hearts) come with insurance, I decided to test this travel trend just as the soaring energy prices and food inflation were pinching hard. The cut-price family break has been elusive … Read more