The highway, which will connect Acoyapa, in the department of Chontales, Nicaragua with Tablillas de Los Chiles in Costa Rica, will mean less trailers passing through San José, more Nicaraguan exports destined for Costa Rica’s port in Limon, and additional tourism, those with knowledge of the project say.

Nine tourists have been killed in a hotel in northern Pakistan during an assault in which gunmen are reported to have killed ten people. Five are thought to be from the Ukraine, one from Lithuania and three from China, according to reports. The tenth victim was their Pakistani tour guide.

British Airways is to trial a new electronic bag tag that could do away with the need to have a new paper tag every time you fly. It is intended that the patent-pending hi-tech tag can be used time and time again.