A United Airlines flight en route to the US was forced to turn back to Sydney Airport following a mid-air emergency — the airline’s fifth emergency in a week.

Flight UAL830 left the airport around 12pm on Monday heading to San Francisco when its journey was cut short after it suffered a suspected mechanical issue.

It was roughly two and a half hours into its trip, having reached a calibrated altitude of 30,000ft, according to Flight Radar 24, when it had to turn back, landing at 2.34pm.

A Level 3 Emergency was declared with a major emergency response.

There were reports of a hydraulics fault, according to The Guardian.....

Novak Djokovic has suffered a complete meltdown during one of the worst defeats of his long career.

Djokovic was featuring at Indian Wells, the event widely dubbed as tennis’ fifth major, for the first time since 2019, hoping to add a record sixth trophy from the prestigious event to his bulging collection.

Instead, the world No. 1 bowed out in the third round in an all-time shocker against world No. 123 Luca Nardi, succumbing 6-4 3-6 6-3 in 2 hours, 20 minutes on court.....

# In short: Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has tendered his resignation as head of the Caribbean nation after an escalation of violence in the capital Port-au-Prince.

# Mr Henry, who many Haitians consider corrupt, had repeatedly postponed elections saying security must first be restored.

#What's next? US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for the creation of a "presidential college" which he said would be tasked with meeting the "immediate needs" of Haitian people.

The pilot of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that plunged suddenly en route from Sydney to Auckland on Monday, injuring 50 people, reportedly told passengers after the terrifying incident that his “gauges just blanked out” and he “lost all ability to fly the plane”......

A sleep-deprived new father of twins and his co-pilot allegedly fell asleep in the cockpit midair, officials in Indonesia said.

Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee found that Batik Air flight BTK6723 began to divert from its flight path on January 25 when both the pilot and his first officer, who were not publicly named, dozed off for around 28 minutes, according to a report on the incident.

After reaching cruising altitude during the flight, a two-hour and 35-minute trip from the island of South East Sulawesi to Jakarta, the 32-year-old pilot in command asked his 28-year-old deputy for permission to sleep, the New York Post reports.

After getting approval from his second-in-command, the captain fell asleep for an hour, waking up briefly to ask the 28-year-old if he wanted to switch places.

After the younger first officer declined the offer, the captain went back to sleep only to wake up 28 minutes later to find that “the aircraft was not on the correct flight path” and his partner was napping, according to the report.....

Texas' largest newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, rebuked Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday in an editorial over a "disturbing" school voucher program.

Texas has long been facing fierce bipartisan resistance to the idea of using state dollars to pay for private school tuition. Meanwhile, the governor had been on a mission this primary season to unseat the House Republicans who repeatedly voted against his school voucher program. Campaign finance reports show that Abbott spent $6.1 million between January 26 and February 24 to deliver on his campaign promise.

Even after calling legislators back for four special sessions, Abbott ultimately lost a yearlong fight to pass a bill that would have given parents educational tax dollars to send their children to private or religious schools instead of public ones. His defeat was largely driven by a united Democratic coalition and about two dozen Republicans who represent rural areas and whose communities oftentimes rely on public schools as a lifeline.

However, school voucher supporters began to emerge following the Lone Star State's primary on Super Tuesday as Abbott succeeded in gaining the victories of nine pro-voucher newcomers to the House, knocking down the previous nine fellow Republicans who opposed the program.

In an op-ed published by the Chronicle on Sunday titled, "Abbott's Super Tuesday triumph in voucher battle is no win for Texas" the newspaper's editorial board warned of the damage Abbott's "obsession" with school vouchers could do and wrote, "While Abbott exults, schools around the state—large and small, urban and rural—are grappling with massive budget deficits, thanks to Abbott's voucher obsession and a Legislature diverted during four sessions last year from meeting its constitutional obligation to adequately fund public schools."......