Aviation

Emirates and Etihad are not simply selling seats this summer; they are selling the idea that the Gulf is safe enough to book, and those are very different products.

Fuel prices surge grounds Spirit flights while European travellers face summer uncertainty as global supply chains buckle under geopolitical pressure.

As images of Nicolás Maduro in Manhattan federal court appeared on screens across Madrid on 5 January, Venezuelan exile communities in Europe watched the outcome of an operation that changed the region overnight.

Cheap tickets and glossy promises suggest Europe's trains can finally take on planes, yet the realities of infrastructure, price and time tell a more complicated story.

With fishing nets coming up empty and governments in conflict, the line between Somali fishermen and pirates is once again dissolving into the sea.