(Bloomberg) — A group of sixteen banks will have to provide $23 billion of loans to T-Mobile US Inc. in order to allow the mobile carrier to close its planned acquisition of Sprint Corp., after the Covid-19 outbreak disrupted plans to sell the debt to third-party investors.The banks were formally notified Monday that they will […]

Editor's Note: Please join my colleagues and Tori Barnes from the U.S. Travel Association online at noon on April 1 for a live discussion of these issues and themes. We'll present details from multiple industry sectors as well as explain what we know as of now. You can register here. I hope to (virtually) see […]

Low-cost U.S. carrier Spirit Airlines Inc said on Monday it will cancel all flights to and from New York, Connecticut and New Jersey after U.S. officials warned against travel to the area because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Spirit, which appeared to be the first major U.S. carrier to cancel all flights to the so-called tri-state […]

A Kmart store at Chadstone shopping centre in Melbourne has closed its doors after two staff caught coronavirus.

Details of a horrific child abduction were revealed in a Queensland judgment overturning a sentence potentially allowing predator Sterling Mervyn Free to walk free on parole in less than two years.

A doctor debunked the biggest myths surrounding COVID-19 – including whether you should be taking supplements and if it’s worth following the Keto diet to reduce your chances of getting it.

Beth Purvis, 40, a legal assistant from Essex, was due to have an operation to remove a 19mm tumour in her right lung. But the potentially life-saving procedure was cancelled due to coronavirus.

Odd aerial imagery continues to make the internet rounds. This first is a daylight “didn’t see it when we filmed it” snapshot. Reporter Inigo Monzon seems impressed that ET Data Base-minder Scott Waring thought the image “could be an alien vessel that was monitoring the activities of people within the region.” Tim Binnall is correct […]

Finally a news item that’s on the light side. A county supervisor in California recently made a proposal that anyone found intentionally killing a Sasquatch be punished. As great a suggestion as that was, it wasn’t well received by the confused board members. Fortunately the entire discussion was captured on video. Perhaps this lack of […]

Is this a breakthrough in understanding the mysterious mechanisms behind the Nimitz “Tic Tac?” Or over-and-mis-interpretation of an old and grainy Navy video? Engineer Michael Boyd has certainly gotten The Sociable editor Tim Hinchliffe’s attention. Boyd’s attempt to elucidate the physics behind the FLIR1 video is admittedly beyond our grasp, but his “unmet need for […]