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A passenger onboard Southwest Airlines was removed after their call to prayer was mistaken for a ‘bomb threat'.

Britain’s official national gas network has hit out at the claims

The furore over not singing their anthem was at the Asian Cup was only the start of the drama as players weighed up a chance to seek asylum amid uncertainty about their fate back home Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Rarely has a first touch carried so much consequence. As the Philippines’ second goal sailed untouched into the back of the net, sealing their victory, the clock started ticking for their opponents: the Iranian women’s team were now out of the Asia Cup tournament. Continue reading...

Blasts heard across Tehran Loud explosions were heard in the city centre of Iran's capital on Tuesday, according to AFP. Iranian media reported blasts across several parts of Tehran after the Israeli military announced a new wave of strikes on the city.

Explosions heard in Doha Reuters reported a boom in Qatar's capital of Doha.

The annual Al Quds Day march is scheduled for London on Sunday

Israeli army says it launched barrage of attacks on Iran The Israeli military announced a new wave of strikes on Tehran. Meanwhile, Iranian media reported that air defences south east of the Iranian capital have been activated.

March 10 (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday called the U.S decision to designate Afghanistan a "state sponsor of wrongful detention" regrettable, and said it wanted to resolve the matter through dialogue after the U.S. demanded the release of U.S. citizens held. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday he was designating the Taliban government a "state sponsor of wrongful detention," and urged Kabul to free all detained U.S. citizens, including Mahmood Habibi and Dennis Coyle.

The rarely seen Mojtaba Khamenei is a surprise appointment, but his accession is above all a statement of defiance When Mojtaba Khamenei was named Iran’s new supreme leader, many observers reacted with surprise. For decades, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been a shadowy figure in Iranian politics, rarely seen in public and almost never heard speaking. He has never given interviews, has held no elected office and appears publicly only on rare ceremonial occasions. Even among political insiders, knowledge of his views is fragmentary. What little is known about him consists of scattered anecdotes: brief involvement in the Iran-Iraq war as a young man, occasional appearances in political circles and a long association with figures inside Iran’s security establishment. Continue reading...

From energy to food, all of life’s essentials are about to get even more expensive. But just knowing that won’t pay the bills As soon as the attacks on Iran started, the warnings commenced: “Get ready for price shocks. Get ready for the oil price to spike. Oh, no need to get ready – it’s already hit $100 a barrel. Get ready for Russia to claw some circuitous but massive advantage from the fact that everything is on fire, get ready for energy bills to go up.” By about day five, experts were explaining how to lock in your current tariff except, whoops, given the global instability, those tariffs were no longer available. If it felt mercenary to worry about your unit price as people were dying, that’s because it was; but considerations of human decency and proportionality aren’t going to arrest the trajectory of life getting more expensive. Get ready for everything to feed into everything else: rising petrol prices to lead to food inflation, food inflation to lead to stuff inflation. Get ready for wages to be unequal to the cost of living, get ready not to complain about it because you’re lucky to have a wage. Get ready for stock exchanges to crash, get ready to not be entirely sure what scale of economic disaster you’re looking at. Continue reading...

The UK’s largest household energy supplier said it has increased fixed-price tariffs and introduced exit fees amid higher wholesale prices.

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UKMTO reports loud bang near vessel 36 natuical miles from UAE An incident was reported 36 nautical miles north of UAE's Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said.  The master of a vessel reported a splash and a loud bang in close proximity to a bulk carrier.

NEW DELHI, March 10 (Reuters) - A second Iranian ship is currently nine nautical miles from Sri Lanka's coast, a spokesperson for Sri Lanka's cabinet said on Tuesday, adding that it would eventually be moved. (Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe, writing by Hritam Mukherjee; Editing by YP Rajesh)

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War in Middle East exposes Europe's energy 'vulnerability', EU chief says EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday expressed that the conflict in the Middle East had exposed Europe's "vulnerability" and dependence on fossil fuels. "For fossil fuels, we are completely dependent on expensive and volatile imports. They are putting us at a structural disadvantage to other regions," she said at the opening of a nuclear energy summit in Paris. The EU chief also indicated that Europe turning away from nuclear energy was a "strategic mistake".

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Humanitarian needs in Iran are growing sharply due to the war, the Red Cross said Tuesday as it launched an emergency appeal for more than $50 million. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said its appeal for 40 million Swiss francs ($51.5 million) would help support five million people through the next 16 months. "Across the country, communities are facing growing humanitarian needs related to health care, shelter, water and sanitation, and mental health and psychosocial support," the IFRC said.

Here are the latest economic events in the Middle East war on Tuesday: - Markets recover - Asian and European stock markets rallied, although Wall Street opened flat after US President Donald Trump signalled that the US-Israel war on Iran was "going to be ended soon". - Energy prices slide back - World oil prices dropped by around seven percent and European natural gas prices plunged after Trump's comments.