Everyone who owns or buys a drone will have to sit a driving theory test for them, the Government will announce today. Ministers are worried there could be a major accident after a sharp rise in the number of near misses between drones and aircraft. Under the plans it will be illegal to own a drone without registering personal details such as your name and address online. Individuals will also have to take a'safety awareness test', answering questions on existing rules. These include always keeping your drone in sight and not flying it above 400 feet (120 metres).

By year's end, the Pentagon wants computers to be leading the hunt for Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, through turning countless hours of aerial surveillance video into actionable intelligence. It's part of Project Maven, a fast-moving effort launched last month by Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work to accelerate, improve, and put to wider use the military's use of machine learning. "We have to tackle the problem a different way," said Air Force Lt. Gen. John N.T."Jack" Shanahan, director for defense intelligence for warfighter support, and the man tasked with finding the new technology. "We're not going to solve it by throwing more people at the problem…That's the last thing that we actually want to do. We want to be smarter about what we're doing."

LONDON – A British Airways flight carrying 132 passengers was hit by a drone as it approached London's Heathrow Airport Sunday afternoon. According to Sky News, the pilot reported that an object had struck the Airbus A320 as it arrived at the London hub from Geneva. The flight, BA727, landed safely at Heathrow's Terminal 5. British Airways said the aircraft was checked by engineers and cleared and cleared to make its next scheduled flight. Sky News reported that London's Metropolitan Police were investigating the incident and no arrests had been made. The strike is the latest in a string of incidents involving drones and aircraft over British airspace.