The energy regulator has confirmed it will pursue even tighter restrictions on how much profit energy companies can make, in a move it said will result in lower prices for customers.
Broadband providers will be given more access to Openreach's telegraph poles and underground tunnels to lay their own high-speed cables, under new plans drawn up by regulator Ofcom.
A majority in Brazil's supreme court has voted to make homophobia and transphobia crimes like racism, a decision coming amid fears the country's far-right president will roll back LGBT social gains.
Stagecoach has launched its second legal action against the Government in less than a month over the Department for Transport's decision to ban it from bidding for rail franchises.
Hundreds of couples in Taiwan are rushing to tie the knot on the first day a landmark decision to legalise same-sex marriage takes effect.
A serial killer who terrorised Florida with a 1984 spree that claimed the lives of 10 women has been executed.
