Comic-book festival bows to pressure over all-male award shortlist
Angoulême says it will add female nominees after Daniel Clowes, Joann Sfar and Riad Sattouf pull out in protest Daniel…
Treat surrogate mothers as sex offenders, says Italian minister
Angelino Alfano says ‘wombs for rent’ should be punishable with prison, as he suggests new laws will make it easier…
North Korea hydrogen bomb test claim met with increasing scepticism
The suspected North Korean nuclear test appears to be “pretty similar” to Pyongyang’s last test in 2013, according to the…
Yen buoyed as growth concerns fan risk-averse mood
A woman counts Japanese 10,000 yen notes in Tokyo, in this February 28, 2013 picture illustration. REUTERS/SHOHEI MIYANO The yen…
Bank of England approves capital calculation models of 19 insurers
insurance British insurers Aviva and Prudential and the Lloyd’s of London insurance market were among 19 firms to have their…