California's high-speed rail project loses $4 billion in federal funding as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cites waste. Gov. Newsom announces lawsuit against the decision.

High-speed rail is becoming a common feature across Europe, as new technology makes travel times between major cities ever shorter. The EU has invested a whopping €23.7 billion (£20.5bn) in high-speed infrastructure since 2000, as it seeks to encourage countries to overhaul and modernise their railways.

The biggest conflicts over California's high-speed rail project may be playing out in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., but the uncertainty they create often ends up in Kern County.

India's Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor will become the launch site for Japan's next-generation E10 Shinkansen bullet trains. The Indian Ministry of Railways announced on Monday that the E10 trains, the successor to Japan's current generation of E5 Shinkansen, would make their debut in both countries simultaneously.