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Arsenal may have thought they had seen the back of nemesis Harry Kane when he left Tottenham for Bayern Munich in the summer, but he returns to north London looking to dump Mikel Arteta’s side out of the Champions League. The Gunners host Bayern in Tuesday’s quarter-final first leg. The 30-year-old has scored more Premier League goals against Arsenal than anybody else – with 14 strikes. Five of those came at the Emirates, which is the joint most for a non-Arsenal player. Kane has enjoyed a record-breaking start in Germany with 38 goals in his first 37 games. He is…

Fighter pilots practice scrambling their jets so they can take off in minutes should a military threat arise. But what do they do when Mother Nature is the enemy? At one Japanese air base, they take to the streets. After a 7.4-magnitude earthquake off Taiwan last week prompted a tsunami alert for Okinawa, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s Naha Air Base, attached to the low-lying Naha Airport on the southwestern coast of the island, moved a dozen F-15J fighter jets to a two-lane road on higher ground. Images of the base posted on social media showed what looked like a rush hour…

Monday’s total solar eclipse, one of the most highly anticipated events of 2024, has come and gone. Millions of people were in the path of totality, where the moon completely blocks the face of the sun from view, and sky-gazers enjoyed stunning views, despite cloudy conditions in some locations. If you missed out on a chance to view the eclipse for any reason, it’s going to be a bit of a wait for a shot at a similar experience in the same region. But if the fervor over this year’s eclipse was any indication, it’s never too early to plan…

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group continue to rapidly fall back to Earth. The Truth Social owner dropped by another 8% on Monday, adding to a brutal week that wiped out a third of the stock’s value. The selloff has shrunk former President Donald Trump’s stake in the controversial company to about $2.9 billion. That’s down sharply from a peak of $5.2 billion based on the closing high of $66.22 on March 27, the day after it went public. Trump owns a dominant stake of 78.8 million shares in Trump Media, which launched in 2021. Its plan to go…

In February US company LanzaJet, which produces sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from ethanol, announced that it intended to build a second, larger plant on US soil. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was a “big influence”, says Jimmy Samartzis, its chief executive The second plant would add to its facility in Soperton, Georgia – the world’s first commercial scale ethanol-to-SAF plant. “We have a global landscape that we are pursuing…[but] we have doubled down on building here in the United States because of the tax credits in the IRA, and because of the overall support system that the US government has…

A road bridge has collapsed on railway tracks in western Russia, killing a woman and injuring another five people, local officials say. All train traffic was halted after Monday’s incident in the town of Vyazma, Smolensk region, they say. About 8,000 households were without gas as pipelines were also damaged. The cause of the Paninsky overpass’s collapse is being investigated. One news channel suggests it was most likely because of its old age. Local residents “repeatedly asked the authorities to repair the overpass”, the 112 Telegram channel says. Several vehicles were believed to be on the bridge when it collapsed.…

Hong Kong authorities have made the city’s largest ever gold smuggling bust, seizing 146kg of the precious metal disguised as machine parts. The haul is estimated to be worth more than $10m (£8m) and was intercepted last month on route to Japan. A 31-year-old man has been arrested and released on bail pending further investigations. Smuggling is a serious offence and carries up to seven years in jail under Hong Kong law. Customs officials say they made the discovery while examining two air compressors – departing in a cargo shipment to Japan on 27 March – which drew suspicions due…

The trial of 27 people charged in connection with the Panama Papers money laundering scandal has started in a Panamanian criminal court. The leak of secret financial documents in 2016 revealed how some of the world’s wealthiest people stashed their assets in offshore companies. The defendants include Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca Mora who founded the now defunct law firm, Mossack Fonseca. They face money-laundering charges but say neither they, the firm nor its employees were involved in unlawful acts. In 2017, the firm said it was the victim of a computer hack and that the information leaked was being…

Climate change could move “into uncharted territory” if temperatures don’t fall by the end of the year, a leading scientist has told the BBC. The warning came as new data showed last month was the warmest March on record, extending the run of monthly temperature records to ten in a row. It’s fuelled concerns among some that the world could be tipping into a new phase of even faster climate change. A weather system called El Niño is behind some of the recent heat. Temperatures should temporarily come down after El Niño peters out in coming months, but some scientists…

The leaders of Egypt, France and Jordan have warned Israel an offensive against Gaza’s southern city of Rafah would have “dangerous consequences”. They jointly said that it would “only bring more death and suffering” and “threaten regional escalation”. The US also said it opposed any assault on Rafah, where more than 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said a date for the offensive had now been set but provided no details. “Today I received a detailed report on the talks in Cairo, we are constantly working to achieve our goals, first and foremost the release of all…