TWO airlines have signed a deal which will allow passengers departing Cork to get on transatlantic flights with just one booking and without having to check in luggage twice.

The world’s largest pharmaceutical firm has axed clinical trials and development for a “flagship” cholesterol drug because of an unexpected number of deaths and cardiovascular problems.

A plane making an inaugural flight from a Papua New Guinea airstrip slammed into a cliff minutes after takeoff, killing all eight on board, officials said.