Asda took a major step towards becoming a public company on Friday as bosses sold nearly £4 billion of the supermarket's pension liabilities.
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have donned cartoon character masks as they formed a human chain across the semi-autonomous Chinese city, in defiance of a government ban on face coverings.
The price of flying somewhere new is often too much for any sane individual to tolerate. We're shepherded around airports like cattle and forced to spend money to distract ourselves from boredom. Little wonder so many of us snap. Case in point: a tourist went on a “rampage” at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport last week, kicking...
Gazprom has started to fill the first branch of the offshore section of the Turkish Stream pipeline with natural gas. This is the final stage of testing the pipeline before putting it into operation later this year. “Filling the pipeline system with gas is a significant step towards the start of actual gas supplies to...
A bomb exploded in a mosque in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, reportedly killing and wounding at least 17 men who had gathered for worship. Earlier reports said that ten people were killed. Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for Nangarhar's provincial governor, said the explosion happened inside a mosque in Haska Mena district. “The roof has...
A huge anti-Brexit message has been ploughed into a field in Wiltshire.
Almost 230 people have lost their jobs after administrators were appointed at department store chain Watt Brothers.
