Apologizing for a June election when she lost her Conservative Party’s majority, Prime Minister Theresa May responded to her critics on Sunday by saying she had the right strategy to lead Britain and win a Brexit deal. May, who has faced calls from within her party to step down, wants to use the Conservatives’ annual […]

An Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in eastern Canada on Saturday after one of its four engines sustained “serious damage” over the Atlantic, the airline said. Air France Flight 66, originating at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, landed at Goose Bay in Labrador at 1542 GMT, the airline […]

Spanish riot police smashed their way into the polling station where Catalonia’s regional leader was due to vote in the disputed independence referendum on Sunday. Scuffles erupted outside between police and people waiting to vote. Civil Guard officers, wearing helmets and carrying shields, used a hammer to break the glass of the front door and […]

Authorities in Madrid have moved to stop an independence referendum in the Spanish region of Catalonia this weekend, with reports that police have sealed off polling stations and raided a telecommunications center. The national government has said police have secured 1,300 of 2,315 schools in Catalonia which had been designated as voting stations, according to […]

Spanish police have occupied the Catalan government’s communications hub on the eve of a banned independence referendum which Madrid is attempting to thwart, the regional authority said on Saturday. Tens of thousands of Catalans are expected to vote in a ballot that will have no legal status as it has been blocked by Spain’s Constitutional […]

Ryanair issued a statement Friday informing passengers about their right to compensation for thousands of canceled flights as the budget airline faced the threat of legal action over allegedly misleading statements made so far. The move came after the Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) gave the budget airline gave Ryanair until 4 p.m. GMT (12 […]

Britain’s regulators could grant interim permission for European Union investment and trading firms to continue operating in the U.K. after the country leaves the bloc in 2019. Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), said giving “interim permission” may be one solution for dealing initially with a wave of firms from the […]

Driverless taxis are set to totally transform the landscape of mass transit systems, according to a study. Self-driving taxi services – such as those Uber has tried to roll out in the U.S. – could offer fares at a fraction of the cost of those offered by public transport networks today, UBS said in a […]

Brexit officials for both the U.K. and the EU have claimed some progress in the latest round of talks – somewhat a change in tone, but only a small step in the right direction given the amount of work that lies ahead. David Davis, the U.K.’s Brexit secretary, told reporters Thursday that negotiators had achieved […]

Peter Altmaier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, will take over as acting finance minister from Wolfgang Schaeuble when he leaves office, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday. It said, without citing its sources, that Merkel had made the decision. On Wednesday 75-year-old veteran conservative Schaeuble agreed to become president of the parliament […]