LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Mockridge, the previous head of News Corp's British arm News International, will take the helm at cable group Virgin Media, one of Rupert Murdoch's biggest rivals in the British pay TV market. Mockridge will take over... [Full Article]
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Settlers at Virginia's Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the U.S. Smithsonian Institution reported on ... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Settlers at Virginia's Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the U.S. Smithsonian Institution reported on Wednesday. A recent e... [Full Article]
By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - A six-passenger spaceship owned by an offshoot of Virgin Group fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time on Monday, a key step toward the start of commercial service in about a year, Virgin owner Richard Branson ... [Full Article]
By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - A privately owned rocket built in partnership with NASA to haul cargo to the International Space Station blasted off on Sunday for a debut test flight from a new commercial spaceport in Virginia. The 13-story Antares rocket... [Full Article]
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A second U.S. company hired by NASA to fly cargo to the International Space Station was cleared to test-fly its Antares rocket from a newly developed commercial spaceport in Virginia, officials said ... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - The government faced fresh humiliation over a botched competition to run the country's west coast rail service on Monday, when it asked Virgin to continue operating the line on an interim basis, only weeks after choosing a riv... [Full Article]
Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic on Tuesday said it would enter the short-haul market with the launch of a London-Manchester flight following rival British Airways' takeover of bmi. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Virgin Atlantic on Tuesday announced plans to operate three daily return flights between London and Manchester from next year, its first foray into the short-haul domestic market. The airline, founded by billionaire entrepreneur Ri... [Full Article]
Richard Branson's Virgin Rail has lost a long-held deal with the government to run a major railway network linking London with Glasgow, the Department for Transport announced Wednesday. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
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