No-frills airline EasyJet has agreed to be taken over in a £5.7bn deal by US firm Apollo after a rival bidder dropped out.

The takeover was agreed after US investment firm Castlelake, which had made a series of offers for the carrier, said it was withdrawing from the bid battle.

Apollo said it wants to help the airline grow and that it does not intend to cut any jobs in the first 12 months after the takeover has been completed, implying that passengers can expect largely the same

At least 30 Yemeni government troops are reported to have been killed in Houthi rebel attacks on military camps in central Yemen.

Sources said missiles and drones struck several camps run by the Emergency Forces in the al-Ruwaik area of Marib province and the al-Abr area of Hadramawt.

Health Minister Qasim Bahibah condemned the "treacherous" attack, saying it was intended to destabilise security and stability. He did not provide a death toll.

A spokesman for the Houthis, who control much of north-west Yemen and are

The administration has sought to assure Americans that US missile stockpiles remain robust, even after the military used vast quantities of difficult-to-manufacture weapons during the combat operation known as Operation Epic Fury and the tit-for-tat strikes since.

CBS News, the BBC's US partner, reported the US has used much of its global stockpile of long-range precision missiles during the war, citing two unnamed sources with direct knowledge of the subject.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday evening that Trump had

Two human rights groups have said an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon that killed al-Akhbar newspaper reporter Amal Khalil and seriously wounded freelance camera operator Zeinab Faraj was an apparent war crime.

Separate reports by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International concluded that the journalists were targeted while reporting in the town of al-Tiri on 22 April.

They called for an independent investigation and for Lebanon to accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

The Israeli military denied targeting the journalists, telling the BBC that the three strikes carried out

A US Senate committee has voted to hold former top health official Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he refused to answer questions during a hearing examining his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The vote - which fell along party lines - clears the way for the committee to refer the case to the justice department for potential prosecution for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena.

It remains unclear whether the department will pursue the case.

During his testimony last week, Fauci invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination more

The boat travelled more than 1,700km downstream towards Kinshasa before being intercepted.

Security services have been instructed to quarantine the Yingfeng  2 offshore in line with WHO standards to prevent potential spread of the virus into the capital. Public health teams remain on standby to act once the boat is secured.

The country has been grappling with its 17th Ebola outbreak since 15 May. It has been caused by the rare Bundibugyo species of the virus, which had not been seen for more than a decade.

The killing of a young influencer, caught on camera as he was livestreaming in Mexico's Sinaloa state, has raised questions about possible links between content creators and criminal cartels in this violence-wracked part of the country.

On the stream, two men on a motorbike can be seen riding up to César Gastélum, who is chatting to two friends outside a fast food restaurant in the city of Culiacán.

The murder happens within seconds: the driver of the bike shoots him in the head