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☆ Andrade and MacNeil take Pan Am Games spotlight
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

With marquee names in short supply, Olympic champions MacNeil and Andrade commanded the Pan Am stage, the Canadian tying American Gabi Albiero for first in women's 50 metre freestyle while Andrade soared to the top of the podium in the vault. Simone Biles aside, Andrade might just be the most intriguing athlete competing in her sport in Santiago. Biles may be recognised as the greatest gymnast of all-time but Andrade is the queen of the vault, holding the Olympic, world championship and now Pan Am Games crowns on the apparatus. MacNeil's fourth win in Santiago tied the record for most gold by a Canadian swimmer at a Pan Am Games while her six total medals (four gold, a silver and bronze) also equalled a single Games national mark. Chile enjoyed their best day of the Panamerican Games scooping up three gold to push their total to five while Argentina's struggles continued.

Persons: Brazil's Rebeca Andrade, Agustin Marcarian, Rebeca Andrade, Maggie MacNeil, MacNeil, Andrade, Gabi Albiero, Simone Biles, Biles, Jordan Chiles, Zoe Miller, ”, I’m, Argentina's, Steve Keating, Lincoln Organizations: Centro, deportes colectivos, Rights, Pan American Games, Olympic, Tokyo, Pan Am, Pan, Santiago, Pan Am Games, Canadian, Aquatic, Thomson Locations: Santiago, Chile, United States, Santiago ., Antwerp, Biles, Canadian, Argentina, Grande, U.S, Mexico, Canada

☆ U.S. casts big net into Pan Am pool in quest for Olympic gold
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The Americans finished with a bang, picking up five medals including gold in the women's 1,500m freestyle and the men's 4x100m medley relay. "We cast a huge net the year before the Olympic trials and Olympic Games trying to make sure we give a lot of people opportunity to get international experience which only sets us up to be better in 2024. The Pan Am pool was not without a few big fish. Olympic butterfly champion Maggie MacNeil was the swimmer in the spotlight, claiming five gold medals (100 butterfly, 100 freestyle, 50 freestyle, 4x100 freestyle relay, 4x100 medley relay), the most by a Canadian athlete at a single Pan Am Games. Her total medal haul of seven (five gold, a silver and bronze) is also a single Games high for a Canadian swimmer.

Persons: Rachel Stege, Dylan Martinez, Brent Arckey, Caeleb Dressel, Katie Ledecky, Arckey, LEN European, Brooks Curry, Paige Madden, Jay Litherland, Maggie MacNeil, MacNeil, Steve Keating, Ed Osmond Organizations: Acuatico, U.S, Rights, Pan American, Aquatic Center, Reuters, Olympic Games, Olympic, Pan Ams, Am Games, Thomson Locations: Santiago, Chile, Morros, U.S, Indianapolis, LEN European Ireland, Canadian, Canada, United States

☆ DiCello takes Pan Am all-around gold and sets sights on Paris
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Brazil's Flavia Saraiva took silver on 54.565, with Jordan Chiles making it two Americans on the podium taking bronze. "Honestly any event whether it is international or our own home meets it prepares us for bigger events, especially knowing 2024 is coming up. "The biggest one we are all going for is Paris, so we'll see what happens." While all-time great Biles sat out the Pan Ams, Andrade the all-round silver medallists at the Tokyo Olympics, was expected to lead the Brazilian fight against the Americans for the all-around title. Reporting by Steve Keating in Santiago; Editing by Sonali PaulOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Kayla DiCello, Agustin Marcarian, Simone Biles, Rebeca Andrade, Flavia Saraiva, Jordan Chiles, DiCello's, Canada's Ellie Black, Biles, Andrade, Steve Keating, Sonali Paul Organizations: Centro, deportes colectivos, Rights, Pan Am, U.S, Paris Olympic, Ams, U.S ., U.S . Olympic, Pan Ams, Tokyo, Thomson Locations: Santiago, Chile, United States, Brazil, Antwerp, Toronto, Lima, Indianapolis, Paris

☆ Hosts Chile's wait for Pan Am gold continues after marathon silver
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Pan-Am Games - Santiago 2023 - Marathon, Santiago, Chile - October 22, 2023 Gold medallist Peru's Cristhian Simeon Pacheco celebrates on the podium with silver medallist Chile's Hugo Edgardo Catrileo and bronze medallist Peru's Luis Fernando Ostos during the men's marathon medal ceremony... Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreSANTIAGO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Peru's Cristhian Pacheco retained his Pan American Games marathon title on Sunday as hosts Chile were once again denied a first gold medal with Hugo Catrileo taking the silver. Pacheco, who won at home in 2019 when Lima staged the Pan Ams, denied Catrileo the same thrill as he powered through the streets of the Chilean capital unchallenged, clocking a winning time of two hours 11 minutes and 14 seconds. The support of the people was fundamental, there have been many weeks of training," said Catrileo. Mexico's Citlali Cristian took the women's gold in 2:27.12 ahead of Argentina's Florencia Borelli, who was alone in the lead before being overtaken two km from the finish. Reporting by Steve Keating in Santiago; Editing by Ken FerrisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Peru's Cristhian Simeon Pacheco, Chile's Hugo Edgardo Catrileo, Peru's Luis Fernando Ostos, Peru's Cristhian Pacheco, Hugo Catrileo, Pacheco, Lima, Mexico's Citlali Cristian, Argentina's Florencia Borelli, Martin, Catalina, Aranza Sanchez, Kristen Faulkner, Steve Keating, Ken Ferris Organizations: Pan American, Pan Ams, Canada, Chile, Thomson Locations: Santiago, Chile, SANTIAGO, Chilean, American, United States

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Brazil's 15-year-old skateboarding sensation Rayssa Leal, one of the favorites to win a gold medal in the street event at the Paris Olympics next year, won her first Pan American Games crown on Saturday. The teenager nicknamed “Fadinha” (Little Fairy in Portuguese) has become one of the biggest names in the sport since she won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Her compatriot and friend Pamela Rosa finished with the silver medal, 25 points behind. American skateboard legend Tony Hawk shared the clip of what he called a “fairytale heelflip” on social media. The men's final for street skateboarding at the Pan American Games will take place later on Saturday.

Persons: —, Rayssa Leal, “ Fadinha, Pamela Rosa, Paige Heyn, Leal, Tony Hawk, ___ Organizations: Paris Olympics, Pan American, Nishiya Locations: SANTIAGO, Chile, Santiago, Paris, Japan, Tokyo, American

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The opening ceremony of Chile's first Pan American Games on Friday was not only a celebration of athletes, Indigenous peoples and poetry, but laid bare the politically divided country's scars from the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet from 1973 until 1990. In the most awaited moment of the two-hour event, the Pan American flame came through “the tunnel of memory” and into the National Stadium in Santiago that was a center of torture and executions after the coup d'etat five decades ago. Lucy Lopez, 93, who won a silver in the high jump at the 1951 Pan American Games, Chile's first medal in the games, lit the cauldron. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesThe Pan American Games, the largest multi-sport event in the Americas, take place one year before the Olympics. The National Stadium and its surroundings were renovated for the competitions.

Persons: Chile's, Augusto Pinochet, Lucy Lopez, Gabriel Boric, Pinochet, Rebeca Andrade, Maggie Mac Neil, Marileidy Paulino, Jordan Chiles, Vincent Hancock, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Sebastián Yatra, Selena Torres, ” Torres, Javier Sosa, “, ” Organizations: Pan American Games, Pan American, Olympics, U.S Locations: SANTIAGO, Chile, American, Santiago, Chilean, Americas, United States, France, Canadian, Dominican, Japan, Colombian, Providencia

☆ Opinion: The people Olympic host cities don’t want you to see
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Opinion David Goldblatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

A Japanese policeman checks the signs to be used during the opening parade at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, 1964. Police officers stand guard at the rowing and kayak competitions venue at Lake Lanier near Gainesville, Georgia, ahead of the 1996 Olympic Games. Helsinki, which built the first permanent Olympic Village in 1952, created a successful and architecturally distinguished neighbourhood of social housing. Barcelona’s 1992 Olympic Village became the epicentre of a process of beachside gentrification and soaring house prices. Until that changes, we can expect the staging of future Olympic Games to look the same.

Persons: David Goldblatt, Read, David Goldblatt David Goldblatt, Douglas Miller, Charles Platiau, dockets, Buda Mendes, Barcelona’s, Urman Lionel, Denis Organizations: CNN, Olympic, Hulton, Getty, LAPD, Atlanta, Police, Housing Rights, Pan American Games, Rio de, City Council, Melbourne Olympic Games, Asahi Shimbun, City, Games, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games Locations: British, Paris, Berlin, Roma, Tokyo, Moscow, Los Angeles, Lake Lanier, Gainesville , Georgia, Atlanta, Seoul, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, Rio, Brazil, Buda, Helsinki, Melbourne, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Athens, Portakabins, London

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Television crews at the Pan American Games had equipment stolen this week from the compound of Estadio Nacional, the site of Friday's opening ceremony, heightening concerns about crime at the tournament hosting over 6,800 athletes. A contractor, and not local police, was in charge of security at the Estadio Nacional compound when the incident took place. The Pan American Games, the largest multisport event in the Americas, are held one year before the Olympics. Police presence at Estadio Nacional was greater Thursday than at the beginning of the week. Organizers of the Pan American Games had previously told The Associated Press they had increased their attention in check points at the gates of every sporting venue.

Persons: Harold Mayne, Nicholls, “, ” Mayne, Gabriel Boric, Chile's goverment, Eva Vergara, ___ Organizations: — Television, Pan American Games, Estadio Nacional, Police, Associated Press Locations: SANTIAGO, Chile, Americas

☆ Russia faces new sanctions for non-compliance, says WADA
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A sign with the logo of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) is on display outside its office in Moscow, Russia December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 22 (Reuters) - The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) will face more sanctions for failing to address non-compliance issues, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Friday. Following executive committee meetings in Shanghai, WADA said it also found the Pan American Sport Organisation (Panam Sports) and the South Africa and Bermuda Anti-Doping Agencies in non-compliance with the WADA code. Both South Africa and Bermuda's non-compliance is due to a failure to appropriately implement the WADA Code into their legal systems. South Africa could be under a particularly tight deadline when it comes to the Rugby World Cup.

Persons: Shamil Zhumatov, WADA, RUSADA, Steve Keating, Toby Davis Organizations: Doping Agency, REUTERS, Pan American Sport Organisation, WADA's, Olympic Games, Sport, Rugby, Pan Am, Santiago, Panam Sports, Thomson Locations: Russian, Moscow, Russia, Shanghai, South Africa, Bermuda, Ukraine, Africa, Toronto

Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, accompanied by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured), speaks at the U.S. The ambassador, Rahm Emanuel, has always spoken in "a colorful manner," said Matthew Miller, restraining a smile, although he declined to say whether Emanuel's comments had been cleared by the State Department. "I would guess that the Chinese government views Ambassador Emanuel's remarks as authoritative and deliberate signaling. I doubt that's the case," said Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. All of that suggests that the administration is unlikely to rein in its Japan ambassador.

Persons: Japan Rahm Emanuel, Antony Blinken, Andrew Harnik, Rahm Emanuel, Matthew Miller, Emanuel, Agatha Christie's, Qin Gang, Li Shangfu hasn't, Li, Xi Jinping, Joe Biden, Obama, Emanuel's, Bonnie Glaser, Biden, Rahm, AMBASSADOR Emanuel, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama's, Laquan McDonald, Fumio Kishida, Yun Sun, He's, Humeyra Pamuk, David Brunnstrom, Michael Martina, Trevor Hunnicutt, Patricia Zengerle, Timothy Kelly, Don Durfee, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: U.S, Ambassador's, WASHINGTON, . State Department, State Department, Foreign, Rocket Force, Defense, Reuters, German Marshall Fund of, CHINA U.S, AMBASSADOR, Obama, House, West Wing, China Program, Stimson, Biden, Thomson Locations: Japan, Tokyo, TOKYO, Washington, Britain, China, United States, Beijing, U.S, CHINA, Chicago

☆ Jim Abbott: The night of that no-hitter
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Jim Abbott was used to dealing with uncomfortable social situations; in some ways, they were all he’d ever known. Abbott was about to pull off a no-hitter, one of the rarest feats in Major League Baseball. Baseball insiders will tell you that nobody ever sees a no-hitter coming, and that was certainly true for Jim Abbott. “I had some pretty serious anxiety about that game,” Abbott said in 2013. The Detroit Tigers scoreboard posting YANKEES JIM ABBOTT HAS THROWN A NO HITTER VS CLEVELAND INDIANS during Detroit Tigers vs Chicago White Sox at Tiger Stadium.

Persons: Jim Abbott, who’d, “, Abbott, ‘, ”, what’s, ” Abbott, John Zich, James E, Sullivan, Carl Lewis, Peyton Manning, Michael Phelps, Don Mattingly, ” Mattingly, he’d, Stephen Dunn, Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez, Albert Belle, Kenny Lofton, Matt Nokes, JIM ABBOTT, Chuck Solomon, Lofton, Felix Fermin, Bernie Williams, Carlos Baerga, Randy Velarde, it’s, Mattingly, I’ve, NASCAR's Busch, Kevin Winter, Jim’s, that’s, he’s, Nick Newell, Newell, Kevin Laue, Shaquem Griffin, “ There’s, Jim, Scott Halleran, He’s, wasn’t Organizations: CNN, CNN Sport, Yankee, Major League Baseball, University of Michigan, Wolverines, Big Ten, Pan American Games, Seoul, MLB, Yankees, Major League, California Angels, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians, Baseball, Cleveland, Detroit Tigers, CLEVELAND INDIANS, Tiger, Sports, Los Angeles Coliseum, Martial Arts, NFL, Toronto Blue Jays Locations: New York, Flint , Michigan, AFP, US, California, Bronx, Cleveland

☆ Berry suspended for second time for anti-doping violation
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Aug 2 (Reuters) - American hammer thrower Gwendolyn Berry, a two-time Olympian and a Pan Am Games gold medallist, has been given a 16-month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Wednesday. It is the second doping ban within a 10-year period for Berry, who was a member of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Olympic teams. Berry’s violation resulted from her use of a topical medication containing the diuretic and masking agent spironolactone for which she had a prescription. However, Berry failed to obtain a Therapeutic Use Exemption for the medication. Berry's 16-month ban was backdated to April 28, the date her provisional suspension was imposed, ruling her out of this month's world athletics championships in Budapest.

Persons: Gwendolyn Berry, Berry, Steve Keating, Clare Fallon Organizations: Pan Am Games, United, United States Anti, Doping Agency, Olympic, Pan Am, U.S ., Thomson Locations: American, United States, Budapest, Lima, Toronto

☆ Travel news: When to book airline flights and why you shouldn’t check your bag
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Read tips on how you can make your next trip greener and then check out the rest of the news from the world of travel this week. Lost bags are partly why luggage trackers have become the hottest travel accessory of 2023. If it’s the largest mirror-covered building in the world you’re looking for, though, the place to head is Saudi Arabia. If you’re a camping novice, our explainer tells you everything you need to know before you set out.

Persons: Read, Keen, Barry Sherry, “, ”, Scott Keyes, we’re, There’ll, They’ve, Bon, New Englanders, Le Bec Sucre Organizations: CNN, Discovery Channel, Warner Bros, San Locations: Europe, That’s, California, Oklahoma, Las Vegas, Saudi Arabia, Rhode Island, France, New, San Francisco, Spain, Japan, Mexico, Tokyo

☆ What Pan Am flight attendants did next
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Annita Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Pan Am has always been synonymous with glamor, and its flight attendants lived their opportunities to the max. Pan Am flight attendants doubled as ambassadors for the airline. Seven former Pan Am flight attendants tell us where they ended up. Memories live on, with many of us becoming members of World Wings International, a non-profit organization of former Pan Am flight attendants. Other former Pan Am flight attendants have unique ways of honoring the airline.

Persons: CNN —, Pan, ”, Camille Lewis, Camille Lewis Camille Lewis's, Camille Lewis’s, Mother Teresa, primatologist Jane Goodall, Michèle Bennett, ‘, Doc ’ Duvalier, Camille, Phillip Keene Phillip Keene, Phillip Keene, Keene, Andrew Eccles, John Gielgud, Tracey Ullman, hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, Huey Lewis, –, “, Buzz Watson, Karren Pope, Onwukwe, Susan L, Taylor, Coretta Scott King, Don King, James Brown, Linda Reynolds, Reynolds, Walter Cronkite, ” Reynolds, Joe, ” Penny Powell Penny Powell, Penny Powell, Powell, Elena Williams Elena Williams, Elena Williams, Williams, John F, Kennedy, Jr, “ I’m Elena Sugarman, ” Annita Thomas Annita Thomas, Annita Stokes Thomas I, jetsetting, I’d, Thomas, Annita Stokes Thomas, William Tolbert, Kurt Strumpf, David Hinson, David Jeffery, Oprah’s, Linda Little Freire, Pan Amer Organizations: CNN, Pan American World Airways, Boeing, Pan, LA, Hollywood, JFK, “ Clippers, JFK Jr, Metropole Hotel, Roberts, Pan Am, “, World Wings, Pan Am Museum Foundation Locations: Rome, Rio, Pakistan, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, Caesar’s Beach, Liberia, Saudi Arabia, Haiti, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, California, London, Amsterdam, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, Dakar, Senegal, La Guardia, Pan, Maryland, Pan Am, Dhahran, Vietnam, Spanish, Chicago, Memphis, Tokyo, West, East Africa, South Georgia, JFK, Narita, Georgia

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☆ In the U.S., an Accomplished Cuban Boxer Takes His First Pro Steps
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Morgan Campbell | Todd Heisler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Cruz, a Cuban boxer who had won the lightweight gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, popped him with two more long lefts. Cruz is one of the most accomplished fighters ever to emerge from Cuba’s celebrated boxing program. Along with his Olympic gold, he has three amateur world titles and has twice won at the Pan American Games. Cruz’s manager, Yolfri Sánchez, watched the sparring session from ringside. Sánchez hired Ennis to replace Cruz’s amateur habits with pro techniques: hitting with authority, staying in range, catching and countering punches.

Persons: Andy Cruz, Rostyslav, Cruz, Juan Carlos Burgos, Yolfri Sánchez, Derek Ennis —, Bozy —, Sánchez, Ennis Organizations: Tokyo, Cuba’s, Pan American Locations: Cruz, Cuban, Northeast Philadelphia, Detroit

☆ Colombia’s Mustard Lovers Grow Desperate Amid Saucy Shortage of Dijon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Genevieve Glatsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In Colombia, a new illicit product is on the rise. Desperate consumers are sneaking it in suitcases from abroad, hoarding it in their homes, paying outrageous prices online and lining up at clandestine locations to buy it. Dijon mustard. “It’s just pitiful,” said Sylvère Belliot, who owns a bakery in Bogotá, the capital. “Mustard is part of being a French person,” he said.

Persons: “ It’s, ”, Sylvère Belliot Organizations: Pan American Health Organization, Health Ministry Locations: Colombia, Dijon, Bogotá, “, French

☆ As earnings season winds down, investors turn to Tuesday's debt ceiling meeting
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

With only a small fraction of the S & P 500 left to report quarterly earnings, investors are now turning their focus to another major hurdle for the markets and economy: the debt ceiling crisis. Earlier this week, we looked back to debt limit crisis of 2011 for potential lessons. The protracted fight ultimately ended in an agreement in early August of that year, but it was a choppy summertime ride for investors. Within the portfolio, Wynn Resorts will report Tuesday, after the closing bell, and Disney will report on Wednesday, after the closing bell. Estee Lauder (EL) and Emerson Electric (EMR) reported earnings before the opening bell.

☆ Why Hooters Air, Pan Am, and the Concorde all disappeared from the skies
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Noah Lewis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Pan Am was an icon of early travel that no longer exists, and even Hooters had its own airline. Meanwhile, the Concorde was an engineering marvel that wowed passengers, but it no longer flies. Did you know that the restaurant chain Hooters once had its own airline, where the wait staff got a chance to work at 32,000 feet? Getting a new airline off the ground can be the easy part, but many struggle to stay above the competition. America's premier airline boasted the first ever scheduled international flight and became an icon of early air travel.

☆ Former Trump AG Bill Barr joins new business lobbying group that aims to target Biden regulations
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Former Attorney General Bill Barr will help to lead a new group formed by a business lobbying organization that aims to be an alternative to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the massive advocacy group that has fallen out of favor with some Republicans. Barr will be chair of an advisory board for a project called the Center for Legal Action, he told CNBC in an interview. The group is part of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, the business lobbying group that launched last year as a possible rival to the chamber. The business lobbying behemoth moved away from predominantly supporting Republicans in recent years after former president Donald Trump embraced trade protectionism, bashed certain companies for their social stances and tried to overturn the 2020 election. The new group aims aims to challenge — at times in court — regulations put in place by the Biden administration.

☆ Boeing delivers last 747, saying goodbye to 'Queen of the Skies'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Valerie Insinna | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

"It's the airplane that redefined the industry and redefined air travel," said Guy Norris, co-author of "Boeing 747: Design and Development Since 1969." British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, who was inspired to start an airline with a single Boeing 747 after getting stuck on a delayed flight, earlier on Tuesday called it a "wonderful beast" as he bid farewell. When Boeing confirmed in July 2020 that it would end 747 production, it was already only producing at a rate of half an aircraft a month. Smith said all 747 program workers were transferred to other jobs or voluntarily retired. Boeing will remain tied to the 747 through the aftermarket business and the Air Force One replacement program, which Boeing won in 2018.

☆ Billionaire Richard Branson calls the Boeing 747 a 'wonderful beast' after the last jumbo jet is delivered but says it was 'too expensive'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Richard Branson described the 747 as a "wonderful beast" as Boeing stopped production of the jets. Branson told Reuters the 747's daily fuel costs across the Atlantic became too expensive. Thousands of people gathered on Tuesday to celebrate Boeing delivering its final 747. "So farewell to a wonderful beast," Branson told Reuters. Insider attended the UK's first orbital space launch carried out by Virgin Orbit at Spaceport Cornwall.

[1/10] A Boeing E-4B "Doomsday Plane" military aircraft takes off at Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland, U.S., May 11, 2022. But it was in the seemingly endless rows at the back of the new jumbo that the 747 transformed travel. "This was THE airplane that introduced flying for the middle class in the U.S.," said Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith. "Prior to the 747 your average family couldn't fly from the U.S. to Europe affordably," Smith told Reuters. Now, two previously delivered 747s are being fitted to replace U.S. presidential jets known globally as Air Force One.

☆ A bombing suspect in the 1988 explosion aboard Pan Am Flight 103 has been taken into US custody. Here's what has happened in the decades since the deadly attack.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

The day after the bombing, then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited Lockerbie to meet with residents impacted by the tragedy. "The damage to this town is worse in daylight than we could possibly have seen at night," Thatcher said at the time. "The destruction of the houses near the road and the crater and the amount of metal and debris all around, and the many houses that must have been affected is far worse than I thought, and one had no idea until one came here." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher talks to local residents in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, shortly after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, December 1988. Tom Stoddart Archive/Getty ImagesSource: ITN

Ashton also questioned how Mas’ud came to be in custody in the U.S. — something that remains unclear. Late last month, local Libyan media reported that Mas’ud had been kidnapped by armed men from his residence in Tripoli, the capital. He was convicted of 270 counts of murder, was given a life sentence and was the only person convicted for their involvement in Lockerbie. The release was met with scenes of jubilation in Libya, where al-Megrahi was greeted by thousands of well-wishers in the capital, Tripoli. He is among the victims’ family members who question the evidence used to convict al-Megrahi in 2001.

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