Strong gusts of wind helped two huge waterspouts merge just off Italy’s Delta del Po, on the country’s east coast.
A local tour boat operator paused an excursion so he could film the spectacle.
Waterspouts are similar to tornadoes that occur over water. Around 500 occur in Europe every year, according to data from the European severe weather database.
This has to go down as one of the most inventive and ambitious motorcycle designs I’ve seen in nearly 20 years following two-wheeled innovations. That doesn’t mean I’d have the cojones to ride it, especially given its eye-popping steering setup!
The Kejashi tilt-wing motorcycle came about as creator Kent Shillitoe contemplated the reasons why Formula One cars can get around a track so much faster than MotoGP bikes. Sure, they’ve got more rubber on the road for grip, but they also smash that rubber into the tarmac with extraordinary amounts of downforce. Not quite as much as this crazy jigger, but extraordinary nonetheless.
MotoGP bikes run miniature ‘winglets’ these days, of course, but they’re tiny in comparison, and since they’re fixed statically to the bike, they create a problem that F1 cars don’t have to deal with: when you lean a bike right over in a fast corner, those winglets lean at the same time.
The result: when the bike goes beyond 45 degrees, it starts creating more force pushing the bike to the outside of the corner than downforce. Given that the GP aliens are now routinely dragging their shoulders on the ground at lean angles beyond 65 degrees, it’s no wonder those winglets are small.
But what if you could keep the wing level? You’d get all the downforce and nothing pushing you towards the gravel trap. You could run a really big wing, too… Although you’d have to put it on the front of the motorcycle, because that’s where you’d want the extra grip.
Yes, a tilt-wing motorcycle. And the wing might not be the oddest thing about this wild machine
Kent Shillitoe
Shillitoe, a South Australian motorcycle mechanic, clearly isn’t a man to just sit and wonder, because he went and built the thing to see if it would work. “Tony Foale wrote a book on motorcycle handling and dynamics,” he tells me over a video chat from the bike dealership where he works in South Australia. “He thought about this, but yeah, nobody’s actually been able to create a tilting wing that works. I’m always thinking while I’m working on bikes, and just came up with the idea and thought, well, if no-one’s tried it, it’s up to me to give it a go!”
So he pulled the engine and front end out of his little Honda CB125 commuter bike, plonked in a 50-horseower 2-stroke dirtbike engine (complete with his own custom-built ‘bellystinger’ expansion chamber), and then set about creating a truly mind-boggling steering and downforce system, hanging off the front of the bike in a large steel cage.
The offset, trailing steering system
It takes trust and faith to ride a motorcycle round a corner. Part of that trust and faith for me has always been based on the idea that even when the steering angle changes, the front and rear wheels will still be in line with one another.
I’m sorry, did somebody lose half the front of a Yammie Niken?
Kent Shillitoe
Not on this thing. Shillitoe’s Kejashi system, which sounds Japanese but is just a nod do his own name KEnt JAmes SHIllitoe, disconnects the forks and handlebars from the normal steering head, and mounts them on a trailing arm coming back from a point well out in front of the fairing. As a result, when you push the left bar to initiate a left turn, the entire steering column, wheel included, swings more than a foot out to the right of the bike’s center line.
That means you don’t have to lean it as far, for one thing. “Offsetting the weight toward the inside of the turn, that’s what the GP guys are trying to do with their bodies,” says Shillitoe. “But moving the wheel toward the outside of the turn naturally offsets the weight of the bike and the rider toward the inside, and reduces the amount of lean angle required. It’s a bit like a Can-Am Spyder – on those things, if you corner them hard enough you can pick up the inside wheel, and then it’s kind of just acting like my design.”
It also gives you a new party trick. “I sneakily rode it home from work once,” laughs Shillitoe, “through the country, I took the back dirt roads. And there was a bit of a boulder on the road, and without thinking, I’ve just gone ‘whoop’ and it’s gone between the wheels. I was like, ‘what the…'”
Kent Shillitoe corners on the tilt-wing Kejashi motorcycle
Kent Shillitoe
So how does it ride? “Yeah, it felt all kinds of wrong to begin with,” he grins. “But once you get used to it and trust it – and not look at it – it starts feeling very natural. It steers sort of like a normal motorcycle, but it feels disconnected to begin with. But it’s stable; you can take your hands off and it just trails along, no worries!”
“If you ride the rear brake, it wants to fall down even more into the turn,” he continues, “and you can roll on the throttle and it’ll start to pick back up a little bit. It feels all kinds of weird, but it works. I don’t know how!”
The tilting wing
That remarkable steering head also tilts the wing arrangement, which pokes up rather inconveniently in front of the rider’s face if they’re not tucked down. “Ah, it’s sort of like a Formula One car with the HALO,” says Shillitoe, “it’s just got that single beam in front of your eyes when you’re going dead straight. The main wings are up above your eyesight. And when you’re cornering, you’ve got totally clear vision.”
Kent Shillitoe’s tilt-wing motorcycle steering system
How’s the weight? “Well, it turned out not too bad, because I stripped a lot of the road-going gear off,” he tells me. “The standard weight of the bike is 128 kg (282 lb), and even though this prototype’s built from steel, the whole bike still only weighs 130 kg (287 lb).”
There’s a notable amount of drag approaching the bike’s top speed of around 150 km/h (~93 mph), but the downforce is also apparent. “When I get up to that speed,” says Shillitoe, “you can see the front forks compressing a little bit. According to my calculations, at 150 km/h, there should be about 60 kg (132 lb) of downforce. You do notice a bit of drag… In the future, I’d love to run something like the DRS system in Formula One, and just tilt it up to reduce drag.”
And what about the cornering? Well, a little hard to tell at this stage, since he’s mainly banging it around back-country dirt roads where downforce isn’t going to make a huge difference. But the feel from between the wheels is encouraging, he tells me. “It’s totally stable, and you just swing the front out, it leans in, the wing tilts… And then it feels like it just pushes you around the corner like nothing else.”
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Where to from here?
Shillitoe wants to take the Kejashi bike to the track and experiment with higher-speed cornering in an environment where grip is paramount, but he’s waiting until the cold South Australian winter abates. Ultimately, this design is wildly inappropriate for the street, and it won’t be any good in head-to-head racing, either. “It’s more designed for one-lap time attack type racing or hill climb events,” says Shillitoe.
He’d love to see somebody with better manufacturing gear at their disposal take the idea up a notch or two from his 12-month shed-project prototype. A super-rigid, lightweight carbon frame could work really nicely, he reckons, since the offsettable front wheel could potentially act like a secondary suspension system when the bike’s leaned right over.
“I remember when Ducati went to their carbon frame, and it was just way too stiff,” he says. “I think the Kejashi system could go to that carbon frame because it’s got that lateral bump absorption built in… Look, I’ve got dreams that it’ll go somewhere, but I don’t know! I can’t hype it up too much ’til I’ve actually proven it properly. But I’ve ridden it plenty hard on the road, it’s capable.”
Shillitoe has a second, standard CBR125 for back-to-back track testing
Kent Shillitoe
I’ve asked Kent to promise he’ll tell me when he takes this thing to the racetrack, because I’d love to see it in action. It’s such an out-there idea and such an audacious approach that I’d love to see it work. The closest thing I’ve ever seen on the tarmac would be the Zenvo TSR-S hypercar, which takes active aeros to even greater extremes, including tilting its rear wing to push the back of the car into the corner.
I guess if the whole downforce thing doesn’t pan out, Shillitoe can always turn that wing upside down, see if the Kejashi flies, and ask Guinness if it’ll qualify as the world’s fastest hang glider? Either way, godspeed, you magnificent bastard, you’re a braver man than I!
Check out the gallery for more images of this unique bike, and some diagrams Kent’s put together showing some of the physics concepts behind the design.
You bet it’s gonna be a fun conversation when you’re talking about a machine like this!
When 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020, it ripped through the city, killing more than 218 people. Among them was three-year-old Alexandra Naggear.
Five years later, the investigation into who is at fault for the blast has been delayed, and at times derailed, by political interference.
“The most important thing for us is not for the decision, but for full justice to happen,” Tracy Naggear, Alexandra’s mother and a key activist advocating for the blast’s victims, told Al Jazeera by phone. “And we won’t accept a half-truth or half-justice.”
As the fifth anniversary of the tragedy approaches, there is some optimism that the judicial investigation is finally moving in the right direction after facing obstacles, mostly from well-connected politicians refusing to answer questions and the former public prosecutor blocking the investigation.
A decision from the lead prosecutor is expected soon, activists and legal sources familiar with the matter told Al Jazeera. And while the road to justice is still long, for the first time, there is a feeling that momentum is building.
Justice derailed
“You can feel a positive atmosphere [this time],” lawyer Tania Daou-Alam told Al Jazeera.
Daou-Alam now lives in the United States, but is in Lebanon for the annual commemoration of the blast, which includes protests and a memorial.
A protester holds up a picture of three-year-old Alexandra Naggear, who was killed in the Beirut port explosion [Kareem Chehayeb/Al Jazeera]
Her husband of 20 years, Jean-Frederic Alam, was killed by the blast, which was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in modern history.
Daou-Alam is also one of nine victims suing the US-based company TGS in a Texas court for $250m, claiming it was involved in chartering the Rhosus, a Moldovan-flagged ship that carried the ammonium nitrate into Beirut’s port in 2013.
She told Al Jazeera that the case is more about “demanding accountability and access to documents that would shed more light on the broader chain of responsibility” than it is about compensation.
The population of Beirut is used to facing crises without government help. Numerous bombings and assassinations have occurred, with the state rarely, if ever, holding anyone accountable.
Frustration and a sense of abandonment by the state, the political system, and the individuals who benefit from it already boiled over into an uprising in October 2019, less than a year before the blast.
In the immediate aftermath of the explosion, residents cleaned up the city themselves. Politicians who came for photo opportunities were chased out by angry citizens, and mutual aid filled the gap left by the state.
The end of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war in 1990 set the tone for the impunity that has plagued the country ever since. Experts and historians say militia leaders traded their fatigues for suits, pardoned each other, awarded themselves ministries and began rerouting the country’s resources to their personal coffers.
Preliminary investigations found that the explosion was caused by ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut port in improper conditions for six years.
They also found that many top officials, including then-President Michel Aoun, had been informed of the ammonium nitrate’s presence, but chose not to act.
Judge Fadi Sawan was chosen to lead the full investigation in August 2020, but found himself sidelined after calling some notable politicians for questioning. Two ministers he charged with negligence asked that the case be transferred to another judge.
Replacing him in February 2021 was Judge Tarek Bitar. Like Sawan, Judge Bitar called major political figures in for questioning and later issued arrest warrants for them. Among them are Ali Hassan Khalil and Ghazi Zeiter, close allies of Lebanon’s Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, who still refuse to respond to Judge Bitar’s requests and claim they have parliamentary immunity.
Despite much popular support, many of Judge Bitar’s efforts were impeded, with Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces at times refusing to execute warrants and the former Court of Cassation public prosecutor, Ghassan Oueidat, ordering his investigation halted.
A man stands near graffiti at the damaged port after the explosion. In Beirut on August 11, 2020 [Hannah McKay/Reuters]
A new era
In early 2025, Lebanon elected a new president, Joseph Aoun, and a new prime minister, Nawaf Salam.
In their inaugural addresses, both spoke about the importance of finding justice for the victims of the port explosion.
“The current justice minister seems determined to go all the way, and he has promised that the judge will no longer face any hurdles and that the ministry will provide all help required,” Karim Emile Bitar, a Lebanese political analyst with no relation to the judge investigating the port explosion, told Al Jazeera.
Human Rights Watch reported in January 2025 that Judge Bitar had resumed his investigation, “after two years of being stymied by Lebanese authorities”.
On July 29, Salam issued a memorandum declaring August 4 a day of national mourning. On July 17, Aoun met with the families of victims killed in the explosion.
“My commitment is clear: We must uncover the whole truth and hold accountable those who caused this catastrophe,” Aoun said.
Oueidat, the former public prosecutor, was replaced by Judge Jamal Hajjar in an acting capacity in 2024, before being confirmed as his successor in April 2025.
In March 2025, Hajjar reversed Oueidat’s decisions and allowed Judge Bitar to continue his investigation.
Legal experts and activists have been pleased by the progress.
“Actual individuals implicated in the case are showing up to interrogations,” Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera. Among them are Tony Saliba, the former director-general of State Security, Abbas Ibrahim, former director-general of the General Directorate of General Security, and Hassan Diab, prime minister at the time of the explosion.
But this is still not enough for those wanting justice to be served after five years of battles, activists and experts note.
“We are asking for laws that are able to protect and support the judiciary and the appointments of vacant judge [posts], so these things will show the government is on our side this time,” Daou-Alam said.
Even with the new government pushing for accountability, some are still trying to disrupt the process.
Hassan Khalil and Zeiter still refuse to appear before Judge Bitar, and a fight has emerged over the country’s judicial independence.
“We can only get justice if the judiciary acts independently so that they can go after individuals and so the security services can act independently without political interference,” Kaiss said.
Protesters lift placards depicting the victims of the 2020 Beirut port blast during a march near the Lebanese capital’s harbour on August 4, 2023, marking the third anniversary of the deadly explosion [Joseph Eid/AFP]
Time for accountability
The last few years have been a turbulent period of myriad crises for Lebanon.
A banking collapse robbed many people of their savings and left the country in a historic economic crisis. Amid that and the COVID-19 pandemic came the blast, and international organisations and experts hold the Lebanese political establishment responsible.
“The time has come to send a signal to Lebanese public opinion that some of those responsible, even if they are in high positions, will be held accountable,” political analyst Bitar said.
“Accountability would be the first step for the Lebanese in Lebanon and the diaspora to regain trust,” he said, “and without trust, Lebanon will not be able to recover.”
Still, Bitar maintained, progress on the port blast dossier doesn’t mean every answer will come to the forefront.
“This crime was so huge that, like many similar crimes in other countries, sometimes it takes years and decades, and we never find out what really happened,” he said.
Blast victim Tracy Naggear noted that “[our] fight… is mainly for our daughter, for Alexandra, of course”.
“But we are [also] doing it for all the victims and for our country,” she said. ‘[It’s] for every single person that has been touched by the 4th of August, from a simple scratch to a broken window.”
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer sounded a cautiously optimistic note on discussions with China on rare earth flows, following trade talks that further steadied ties between the economies.
Greer said the key industrial components were a focus of negotiations in Stockholm last week that Beijing said led to an extension of their tariff truce. Without going into detail, he said the U.S. secured commitments about their supply on CBS’s Face the Nation aired Sunday.
“We’re focused on making sure that magnets from China to the United States and the adjacent supply chain can flow as freely as it did before the control,” Greer said in the interview, which was taped Friday. “And I would say we’re about halfway there.”
That assessment came some four months after China imposed export controls on rare earth magnets—used in products from home appliances to missiles—in retaliation for U.S. tariff threats. Beijing has agreed to speed up their shipments after Washington suspended sky-high levies on Chinese exports.
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to make the final call on maintaining the tariff truce, which expires Aug. 12, Greer said.
“We’re working on some technical issues, and we’re talking to the president about it,” he said.
Flows of rare earth magnets from China to the U.S. rose to 353 tons in June, up from just 46 tons in May, according to the latest customs data. Total shipments were still substantially lower than before Beijing launched export controls in early April.
Greer earlier said Trump’s trade team hopes to be done discussing magnets with China, after he and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrapped up a third round of trade talks with Beijing in the Swedish capital end of July. If the U.S. can get over the magnets issue, it can move to a further discussion of the U.S.-China relationship, he added.
The discussions have helped stabilize relations between the world’s two largest economies, although many frictions remain, including over the U.S.’ curbs on exporting advanced AI chips to its main competitor.
Beijing authorities on Thursday summoned Nvidia Corp. to discuss alleged security vulnerabilities related to its H20 chips. The Trump administration only recently pledged to drop export restrictions on the less-advanced technology to China, in a reversal that spurred talk of a potential broader deal with Beijing.
The Cyberspace Administration of China cited comments by U.S. lawmakers about the need to install tracking capabilities into advanced chips sold to other countries. The agency asked staff at the world’s most valuable company to explain potential risks and provide documents as needed, the CAC said without elaborating.
More than three thousand Boeing defence workerswent on strike on Monday, in a fresh blow to the embattled aviation giant.
It comes after union members at operations in Missouri and Illinois, who build F-15 fighter jets and other military aircraft, voted against the firm’s latest offer over pay, work schedules and pensions.
“We’re disappointed our employees rejected an offer that featured 40% average wage growth”, Dan Gillian, who is the vice president of Boeing’s Air Dominance unit, said in a statement.
Boeing is struggling to turn itself around after a series of problems, including safety issues and a damaging almost eight-week walkout by passenger plane workers last year.
The walkoutis being led by a local branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) based in St Louis, where Boeing’s defence manufacturing hub is located.
“3,200 highly-skilled IAM Union members at Boeing went on strike at midnight because enough is enough. This is about respect and dignity, not empty promises,” the union posted on X.
IAM is one of America’s largest unions, representing roughly 600,000 members in the aerospace, defence, shipbuilding and manufacturing industries.
It is thefirst walkout at Boeing’s defence business since 1996, when work stopped for more than three months.
But last week Boeing’s chief executive Kelly Ortberg downplayed the potential impact of the walkout.
He highlighted that it would be a lot smaller than a strike last year involving around 30,000 passenger jet workers that cost the firm billions of dollars.
“I wouldn’t worry too much about the implications of the strike. We’ll manage our way through that,” said Mr Ortberg.
Boeing has been hit by a series of crises in recent years, including two fatal crashes and a dramatic mid-air blowout of a piece of one of its planes.
Sony Music Entertainment has partnered with Epic Games to launch an immersive PARTYNEXTDOOR concert experience in Fortnite, debuting Thursday (August 1) at 1 PM EST.
The interactive event was developed in collaboration with Sony Immersive Music Studios and OVO Sound, Drake’s label.
The virtual experience takes players on a journey from Toronto’s CN Tower to Miami’s South Beach, featuring a custom island designed specifically for the R&B artist.
Players travel via private jet to attend a PARTYNEXTDOOR show, followed by an exclusive afterparty at a digital recreation of David Grutman’s LIV nightclub at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
PARTYNEXTDOOR’s larger-than-life avatar performs stylized versions of several tracks, including Break from Toronto, which is available as a Jam Track in the Fortnite Shop.
The setlist also features M a k e I t T o T h e M o r n i n g and Somebody Loves Me, with players able to participate in quests, scavenger hunts, mini-games, and parkour challenges throughout the experience.
“When the opportunity to create our own world came up, it was a natural fit,” PARTYNEXTDOOR said in a statement, citing his longtime fandom of the game. The artist was the first to sign with Drake’s OVO Sound label under Sony Music.
The launch follows PARTYNEXTDOOR’s recent release of his latest solo album P4, which has generated over one billion streams. He also topped the Billboard 200 and Apple Music charts with the collaborative project $ome $exy $ongs 4 U alongside Drake, which he is currently promoting on a European tour.
This marks the latest collaboration between Sony Music and Epic Games in the virtual concert space. Sony established its Immersive Music Studios division in January 2021, focusing on developing immersive music experiences through technology and creativity.
Previous Sony Music activations in gaming platforms have included Travis Scott’s record-breaking Fortnite concert and Lil Nas X’s Roblox performance. The PARTYNEXTDOOR event leverages Epic Games’ Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) and motion capture technology from UK-based Move AI to create the virtual performance.
The partnership reflects the growing convergence between music and gaming industries, particularly following the success of virtual concerts that have drawn millions of concurrent players.
The custom PARTYNEXTDOOR island can be accessed using the code 7024-5026-8823, offering fans an interactive alternative to traditional concert experiences during the artist’s European tour dates.
Seoul removes propaganda loudspeakers to signal a shift in policy under President Lee’s administration.
South Korean authorities began removing loudspeakers blaring anti-North Korea broadcasts along the country’s border, Seoul’s Ministry of National Defence has said, as the new government of President Lee Jae-myung seeks to ease tensions with Pyongyang.
“Starting today, the military has begun removing the loudspeakers,” Lee Kyung-ho, spokesman of South Korea’s Defence Ministry, told reporters on Monday.
Shortly after he took office in June, Lee’s administration switched off propaganda broadcasts criticising the North Korean regime as it looks to revive stalled dialogue with its neighbour.
But North Korea recently rebuffed the overtures and said it had no interest in talking to South Korea.
The countries remain technically at war because the 1950-53 Korean war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty, and relations have deteriorated in the last few years.
“It is a practical measure aimed at helping ease tensions with the North, provided that such actions do not compromise the military’s state of readiness,” the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
All loudspeakers set up along the border will be dismantled by the end of the week, he added, but did not disclose the exact number that would be removed.
President Lee, recently elected after his predecessor was impeached over an abortive martial law declaration, had ordered the military to stop the broadcasts in a bid to “restore trust”.
Relations between the two Koreas had been at one of their lowest points in years, with Seoul taking a hard line towards Pyongyang, which has drawn ever closer to Moscow in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The previous government started the broadcasts last year in response to a barrage of trash-filled balloons flown southward by Pyongyang.
But Lee promised to improve relations with North Korea and reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Despite his diplomatic overtures, North Korea has rejected pursuing dialogue with its neighbour.
“If the ROK… expected that it could reverse all the results it had made with a few sentimental words, nothing is [a] more serious miscalculation…,” Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said last week, using the acronym for South Korea’s official name, Republic of Korea.
Lee has said that he would seek talks with North Korea without conditions, following a deep freeze under his predecessor.
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More than 60 migrants died when a boat carrying around 150 people sank off the coast of Yemen in bad weather on Sunday.
The vessel capsized off Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, and 68 bodies have been recovered, the Yemen chief for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) told the BBC. He said 12 people had been rescued and dozens were still missing.
Most of the victims are believed to be Ethiopian nationals, said the IOM, which called the incident “heartbreaking”.
Yemen remains a major pathway for migrants from the Horn of Africa travelling to the Gulf Arab states in search of work, with the IOM estimating hundreds have died or gone missing in shipwrecks in recent months.
IOM Yemen chief Abdusattor Esoev said the boat was carrying around 157 migrants on a dangerous route in the vast coastal area often used by people smugglers.
Yemen is a popular transit country for many desperate migrants heading north to Saudi Arabia in search of better opportunities.
The bodies of 54 migrants were discovered onshore in the southern district of Khanfar, and 14 others were taken to a hospital morgue in the Abyan provincial capital Zinjibar, the Associated Press reported.
The Abyan security directorate released a statement on the large search and rescue mission under way and said many dead bodies had been found across a wide area of shoreline, according to AP.
A spokesperson for the IOM said the agency was “deeply saddened” by the “tragic loss of life”.
“This heartbreaking incident underscores the urgent need for enhanced protection mechanisms for migrants undertaking perilous journeys, often facilitated by unscrupulous smugglers who exploit desperation and vulnerability,” they said.
Mr Esoev also emphasised the importance of strengthening legal safeguards for migrants, to prevent them from being exploited by smugglers.
“What we are advocating for all member states… is to enhance their regular pathways so people can take legal ways in order to migrate, instead of being trapped or deceived by smugglers and taking those dangerous journeys,” he said.
The IOM previously described the journey from the Horn of Africa to Yemen as “one of the busiest and most perilous mixed migration routes”.
In March, two boats carrying more than 180 migrants sank off the coast of Yemen’s Dhubab district due to rough seas, with only two crew members rescued and all remaining passengers missing and feared dead.
Migrants arriving at Migrant Response Points in Yemen have also reported people-smugglers becoming more reckless by knowingly sending boats into dangerous conditions to avoid patrols, according to an IOM report.
Despite the risks, many migrants continue to make the trip, with more than 60,000 arriving in Yemen in 2024 alone.
In the last decade, the IOM’s Missing Migrants Project recorded more than 3,400 deaths and missing people along the route – 1,400 of those deaths were due to drowning.