Officials are hoping to reopen both runways at New York’s LaGuardia Airport after a plane’s landing gear collapsed, sending it skidding along the tarmac and causing operations to be suspended.

CORK may soon get a new ferry link, if a west of England town has its way.

HEATWAVES are likely to become more severe, frequent and long lasting this century, scientists said yesterday.

Voter turnout for the French presidential runoff is set to surpass the level of both the first round on April 21 - when a record 28% of voters abstained - and in the 1995 election.