Residents applauded in Madrid as the lights came back on, after a huge power cut brought parts of Spain and Portugal to a standstill on Monday. A state of emergency was declared in Spain, as the mass blackout grounded flights and caused traffic chaos. The cause of the disruption remains under investigation. Read full article...
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A major power cut across large parts of Spain and Portugal has resulted in dozens of flights being cancelled as well as disruption to rail and road networks. Some 96 departing flights from Portuguese airports have been grounded so far, with the country’s capital city airport in Lisbon worst affected. A total of 45 flights...
EPA A massive power cut has caused widespread disruption in parts of Spain and Portugal, with airports, trains and petrol stations impacted. The chaos has also hit stores, with some supermarkets shutting and local grocery stores switching to cash as card payments stopped working. Here we collect some of the day’s most powerful news photographs....
EPA Customers wait at Lisbon’s airport The first sign of trouble Peter Hughes noticed was when his train to Madrid starting to slow down. Then the TV monitor and lights went off. Emergency lights switched on, but did not last, and the locomotive ground to a halt. Four hours later, Mr Hughes was still stuck...
A major power cut has caused havoc in parts of Spain and Portugal, affecting many parts of people’s every day lives. In Spain, video has captured chaos on the roads as traffic lights stop working and in Portugal, commuters filmed Metro stations plunged into darkness. Prime Minister of Portugal Luis Montenegro says there is “no...
Reuters Police tell travellers that Madrid’s Atocha train station is closed due to the outage A massive power cut hit large parts of Spain and Portugal on Monday, causing widespread chaos and disruption. The outage left millions of people without electricity, while internet and phone networks were also down. Trains were cancelled and evacuated in...
A national power outage stopped play at the Madrid Open, with Britain’s Jacob Fearnley among those forced off court. Fearnley had saved a match point in his third-round encounter against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and was about to serve to stay in the match at 6-4 5-4 down when play was suspended on the main court....
Glasgow City booked their place in the Women’s Scottish Cup final by overcoming Motherwell’s initial stubbornness to win 4-0 at Hampden. Sofia Maatta and Nicole Kozlova scored in the first half and Katie Lockwood added two more after the break as the nine-time winners booked a return to the national stadium to face either holders...
Mark Poynting & Anthony Reuben BBC Verify PA Energy bills rose by 6% for a typical family in April, following an announcement from the regulator Ofgem. But Labour pledged in its manifesto: “We will save families hundreds of pounds on their bills, not just in the short term, but for good.” It also promised bills...
Opposition MPs in Ghana have fiercely condemned the suspension of the country’s chief justice, accusing President John Mahama of trying to “pack the courts” with justices who are sympathetic to the governing party, the NDC. Gertrude Torkornoo was removed from her post on Wednesday – the first time a chief justice has been suspended in...
Dozens of firefighters are tackling a major blaze at a factory in Birmingham that has led to a power cut affecting nearly 400 homes. Fifteen fire engines with about 75 crew members were sent to the single-storey industrial premises on Warwick Road, Sparkhill, at about 07:15 BST. West Midlands Fire Service said the blaze was...
Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Getty Images More than half of the growth of solar in 2024 was in China. More than 40 percent of the world’s electricity was generated without burning fossil fuels in 2024, according to a new report from think-tank Ember. But carbon dioxide emissions, which warm the planet, have risen to...
In communities across the United States and also overseas, coordinated “Hands Off” protests are taking place far and wide Saturday in the largest public rebuke yet to President Donald Trump and top henchman Elon Musk’s assault on the workings of the federal government and their program of economic sabotage that is sacrificing the needs of...
Tom Espiner and Simon Browning BBC business reporters PA Media Heathrow Airport was warned about the “resilience” of its power supply in the days before a fire which shut down the airport for more than a day last month. The boss of a group representing airlines told a group of MPs on Wednesday that he...