She told MPs that "all but 1.2 miles" of the proposed high speed route would run through tunnels, cuttings, or alongside major road routes.

BBC: Westminster Hall: High speed rail

Decades of operation have heated the very soil through which the tunnels run and led to the sweaty climate familiar to today's passengers.

ECONOMIST: London Underground

He was expected first to focus on bolstering the ceasefire, channelling reconstruction aid through the Fatah-run PA rather than Hamas, and on measures to stop arms reaching Gaza via tunnels under the border with Egypt or by sea from Iran.

ECONOMIST: Diplomacy after the Gaza war