June2018

Italian energy giant Enel on Monday took a controlling stake in Brazil’s largest power supplier, buying 73 percent of Eletropaulo shares for about $1.47 billion (1.26 billion euros). Enel and Spanish rival Iberdrola had been fighting...

For the first time in 50 years, Radio 4 comedy panel show Just A Minute was not hosted by Nicholas Parsons. The 94-year-old broadcaster, who has been at the helm of the programme for more than...

A sea captain has gone missing after slipping into the Karnaphuli River from his ship docked at Chattogram Port. Navy, coastguards and port authorities have launched a rescue operation after the mishap that happened around 8:45pm...

Masihuzzaman Serniabat has been appointed as the new chief of Bangladesh Air Force with a promotion to air marshal. Serniabat succeeds Air Marshal Abu Esrar, the defence ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The new...

Comedian Michael McIntyre was robbed by two men on a moped while parked outside his children’s school on Monday, his publicist has said. The men smashed his car windows with a hammer before taking his watch...

A one-year-old boy is in a critical condition after being stabbed at a home in west London. A woman in her 30s was also found with less serious knife wounds at the property on Swinfield Close,...

US prosecutors have accused Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, of trying to tamper with potential witnesses ahead of his trial. Robert Mueller, who is investigating alleged Russian election interference, said Mr Manafort had contacted...

The White House said on Monday its policy of tough sanctions on North Korea has not changed, days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he no longer wanted to use the phrase “maximum pressure” to describe...

The death toll from a volcanic eruption in Guatemala rose to 69 on Monday as family members desperately searched for the missing in makeshift morgues and on streets blanketed with ash. Guatemala’s national disaster agency, CONRED,...

When U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet for their historic summit in Singapore later this month, they will be protected by men from one of the fiercest warrior tribes in...