Mes: septiembre 2019

The first flight has landed at London’s Heathrow Airport – Europe’s busiest hub – since airspace across the continent was closed by ash spewed from a volcano in Iceland. Many European flights took to the skies Tuesday as airports slowly reopened, but the travel chaos was far from over: A massive flight backlog was growing and scientists feared yet another eruption. A flight from Vancouver landed at London’s Heathrow around 5 p.m. – the first since flight paths were closed after Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted Wednesday. The first passenger out of the airport was Neil Rodgers, a group finance director from England who had been stranded in Vancouver, Canada, for five days, CBS News reports. Rodgers told CBS News that his flight, British Airways 084, was held in a holding pattern over the U.K. while the pilots were directed where to land. Rodgers said it was “great to be home.” British Airways said it hoped about 24 other flights bound from the United States, Africa and Asia would land later Tuesday at Heathrow. European terminals lurched back to life while the danger from Iceland’s volcanic ash plume eased. CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips reports that about 13,000 – roughly half – of Europe’s flights operated Tuesday, most of them in the south away from the ash cloud. It was a brief glimpse of what used to be normal. So...

(CBS/AP) “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed he battled with a secret alcohol problem and is no longer drinking. The 21-year-old actor tells GQ U.K. that he began to drink too much while filming “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince,” the sixth movie in the “Potter” film franchise, in 2009. Pictures: Daniel RadcliffePictures:”Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” Premiere “I became so reliant on (alcohol) to enjoy stuff,” he told the magazine “There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person’s lifestyle that really isn’t suited to me.” “As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time – that doesn’t work for me. I do that very unsuccessfully,” he said about his decision to cut out drinking altogether, instead of simply cutting down. “I’d just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.” Radcliffe adds that sobriety has also helped him become a better boyfriend. “I’m actually enjoying the fact that I can have a relationship with my girlfriend (Olive Uniacke) where I’m really pleasant and not f—— up totally all the time,” he says. Radcliffe shot to fame...