Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said it will offer a voluntary scheme to its Hong Kong-based pilots, who are approaching retirement age, to leave the group early. It said this is in a continued effort to cut costs amid the coronavirus pandemic. The airline said in an email to Reuters on Saturday it is looking at […]

A drunken soldier in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) troubled east opened fire on passers-by, killing at least 13 people including a two-year-old girl and seven women, sources said on Friday. The murders incensed locals who laid out the victims’ shrouded bodies. Youths built a big fire nearby and a local leader vilified […]

Spain plunged into recession in the second quarter after its gross domestic product tumbled by 18.5 per cent due to the coronavirus pandemic, official figures showed on Friday. Spain which plunged into recession in the first quarter recorded growth fallen by 5.2 per cent, the Institute of National Statistics said (INE). A recession is commonly […]

A former British football coach branded “sheer evil” (paedophile) by the judge who jailed him for abusing 12 boys pleaded guilty to a further nine sexual offences on Friday. Former Crewe Alexandra coach Barry Bennell, 66, entered the pleas via video-link from Littlehey prison in south east England, where he is serving a 30-year term […]

Spain plunged into recession in the second quarter after its gross domestic product tumbled by 18.5 percent due to the coronavirus pandemic, official figures showed on Friday.