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Uber driver Michael was assaulted by passengers. He says the platform’s response added insult to injury

21 April 2026 at 15:00

Drivers booted off the platform say they have little recourse to appeal as rideshare giant increasingly relies on automated systems

Michael Thorn thought he’d suffered enough after his Uber passenger punched him in the head, sending him to hospital. But then the rideshare platform deactivated his account.

“It’s even worse than getting belted,” Thorn said.

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Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report

By: Ajit Niranjan

21 April 2026 at 04:00

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

Europe’s “stone age” system of booking train tickets makes it needlessly difficult for travellers to avoid polluting flights, a report has found.

Booking equivalent train tickets is “difficult or impossible” on almost half of the EU’s busiest international air routes, analysis from the Transport & Environment (T&E) thinktank shows.