British Airways blaze pilot: 'I'm finished flying'
The pilot of a British Airways plane which caught fire at a Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 170 people on board on emergency slides, has told NBC he is "finished flying".
Chris Henkey, from Reading, said he was "unlikely" to make a trip to Barbados, after which he was due to retire. His fiancee said she was "very shocked", but praised him as a "hero".
Officials in the United States said the left engine of the Boeing 777-200 caught fire before take-off. At least 14 people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the incident on a runway at McCarran International Airport.
Describing the incident, Mr Henkey told NBC: "There was a loud bang and the aircraft sort of veered to the left. Because we had a third pilot he actually opened the door and went down into the cabin, saw how serious it was."
He told the network he had been due to fly to Barbados on Saturday and return the following Tuesday "and that would be it." But he reportedly added: "It's safe to say I'm finished flying."
Pressure to release blood data 'almost abuse'
Paula Radcliffe feels like she has been "almost abused" by calls for her to release her blood data.
The former British athlete, 41, says she has been implicated by a parliamentary hearing on blood doping, following a Sunday Times investigation. Radcliffe has now released the three 'abnormal scores' after earlier telling the BBC she would not be "forced" into a "knee-jerk reaction". She claims the results are "not even suspicious".
The marathon world record holder scored 114.86, 109.86 and 109.3 in three blood test results, which were followed up and cleared by the IAAF at the time they were given.
Any score above 103 recorded by a female athlete can trigger further action, but Radcliffe, who set her world best time in 2003, said those three tests analysed by experts employed by the Sunday Times lacked context.
Global food prices fall at fastest rate in seven years
Last month saw a 5.2% fall in global food prices, the biggest drop in seven years, according to the UN.
Its Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) saw monthly falls in all major commodities, from milk and vegetables to oils, sugar and cereals.
Food producers are being hit by slowing demand in China and a Russian embargo on Western products.
Now the European Commission is to release €500m ($557m) to help Europe's farmers.
The commission said the most significant part of the package would support the dairy sector in all EU member states.
Dairy farmers have suffered a 20% fall in European wholesale milk prices in the past year.
The European Commission aid comes on top of extra help for European fruit and vegetable farmers, who have been hit by the Russian embargo on Western food imports in retaliation for EU and US sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine.
Uber dealt another blow over driver status
App-based taxi service Uber has been dealt another blow in a legal row that questions the status of its drivers and threatens its business model. It has emerged that a government body has already ruled that Uber drivers are employees not independent contractors.
The distinction is crucial because employees are entitled to a raft of benefits. It could strengthen the case for Uber drivers currently taking legal action against the company. The ruling emerged in court documents published by a lawyer representing the drivers - all based in San Francisco.
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) determined that a former Uber driver in southern California was an employee, not an independent contractor as the company had claimed.
Uber appealed against the decision, but both appeals were rejected - by an administrative law judge and then by the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. The EDD decision is the third such ruling on the status of Uber - which has quickly become a huge issue for the company.
British trio of acts through to finals of America's Got Talent
Three British acts have advanced to the finals of America's Got Talent, the US TV talent search.
Comic and magician John van der Put, who performs as Piff the Magic Dragon, ventriloquist Paul Zerdin and Stevie Starr, The Professional Regurgitator, made it through. Van der Put and Zerdin hail from London, and Starr from Glasgow.
They join a line-up of 10 competing for the top prize of $1m (£645,000) and their own Las Vegas show. Van der Put, who often performs with Mr Piffles, a Chihuahua in a dragon costume, secured his place by performing card tricks with the panel of judges.
He was the opening act for Mumford and Sons on their UK tour, recently performed his show Breakfast at Piffany's at the Edinburgh Festival and has already had a Las Vegas residency.
Stephen Colbert makes Late Show debut
Hollywood actor George Clooney and Republican White House contender Jeb Bush were among Colbert's first guests.
The former host of Comedy Central's satire programme, The Colbert Report, opened the show with a sketch, singing the national anthem around the country. He also paid tribute to his predecessor Letterman, calling himself "a fan".
"We will try to honour his achievement by doing the best show we can and occasionally making the network very mad at us," said Colbert. "As long as I have nine months to make one hour of TV, I could do this forever," he added.
The comedian played a hardline conservative in his previous show, Comedy Central's satirical news show The Colbert Report, but he appeared as himself for his mainstream debut.
He was first seen singing the Star Spangled Banner with people at a bowling alley, in a factory and at a youth baseball game - where an "umpire" took unmasked himself as Jon Stewart - Colbert's former colleague on The Daily Show .
As the segment ended, and Colbert walked on stage he was given a standing ovation by the studio audience, who chanted, "Stephen, Stephen, Stephen". "If I knew you were going to do that, I would have come out here months ago," he joked.
Apple releases iPad Pro, new Apple TV and iPhone 6S handsets
Apple has unveiled a larger iPad tablet, a TV box with its own app store and new iPhones that can detect how firmly their screens are being pressed. The firm suggested the iPad Pro was suited to work tasks, video games and both editing and watching movies.
Sales of the company's earlier iPads had been on the decline. Apple said the "3D touch" feature of its new phones "transformed" the experience of using them by making it easier to use and switch between apps.
Huawei demonstrated its own version of the feature - which it called "force touch" - at its own launch event last week.
Fire on British Airways
Passengers have been describing the terrifying moment a fire broke out on board their London-bound British Airways plane at Las Vegas airport.People started screaming and rushing to the front of the plane after its take-off on Tuesday was abruptly halted due to the fire, some eyewitnesses said.
All 170 people were quickly led to safety, some with minor injuries. Aviation officials have started an investigation into why the left engine of the Boeing 777-200 caught fire. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says it has sent a team of investigators to the scene.
General Electric said the plane was powered by two of its GE90 engines and it would also send two of its technical experts to join the investigation.
The company said it was not aware of "any operational issues that would hazard the continued safe flight of aircraft powered by these engines," stressing that it had an "outstanding safety and reliability record since entering service in 1995"
Nicole Kidman pays tribute to father in Photograph 51
The Oscar-winning star plays pioneering British scientist Rosalind Franklin in the play Photograph 51. Franklin was the only woman involved in the discovery of DNA's double helix in 1953, but only received recognition years after her death. The play, by Anna Ziegler, opens at the Noel Coward Theatre next week.
Speaking at the theatre in London on Monday, Kidman said that 12 September - the date of the play's final preview performance - will be the first anniversary of her father Dr Antony Kidman's death.
"This is my way of acknowledging him but also acknowledging the people in science who quietly do things and aren't acknowledged a lot of the time. "He knew I was going to do this. I like to think he'll still be somewhere offering support."
Kidman recalled how as a child she spent time with her sister playing in laboratories with "test tubes and microscopes" while her father worked. She said that it had been "really emotional" being back on stage at Saturday's first preview. According to press reports, she received a standing ovation and was greeted by more than 100 fans at the stage door. It is her first stage role since she appeared in David Hare's The Blue Room at the Donmar Warehouse in 1998. Her performance was famously described as "pure theatrical Viagra".
"I think nerves get more as you get older. I would love to say they get less, but they don't," Kidman said. "My heart was pounding and that rush of adrenaline is an extreme feeling.
"Getting out there on the stage is the big thing, but once I was out there it was unbelievable."
Kidman said that Franklin, who died aged 37 from ovarian cancer in 1958, had made a "massive contribution" with her work on DNA. She said it was "an injustice" that she wasn't recognised at the time.
Cecil the lion killer, Walter Palmer, to return to work
The US dentist who sparked an international outcry after killing a lion in Zimbabwe has said he did nothing wrong and is planning to return to work this week.
Speaking in his first interview since the July killing of Cecil the lion, Walter Palmer said he had been unaware of the animal's significance. He also revealed that there had been "some safety issues" for his family. Zimbabwe has said it wishes to extradite and prosecute Mr Palmer.
Speaking publicly for the first time about the incident, he told the Associated Press and Minneapolis Star Tribune that he had acted legally, but said that if he had known who the animal was he would not have killed it.
"If I had known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study obviously I wouldn't have taken it," Mr Palmer said. "Nobody in our hunting party knew before or after the name of this lion."
The Minnesota dentist admitted that he wounded the lion with an arrow but denied that it had subsequently taken 40 hours to track down and kill it. He also denied claims by the Zimbabwean authorities that it had been killed by a gun, saying that an arrow had been used.
The 55-year-old is believed to have paid $50,000 (£32,000) to hunt a lion in Zimbabwe's largest game reserve.