UK inflation unexpectedly dipped in December for the first time in three months as hotel prices fell and tobacco costs eased.

This comes more than three years after India suffered a major strategic and diplomatic blow when Kabul fell to the Taliban.

Over the next seven months, essentially no rain fell.

Airbus is in a much healthier position, but still fell narrowly short of production targets last year, as it grappled with its own supply chain issues.

The last significant rain in downtown Los Angeles was on May 5, when 0.13 inches of rain fell.