Owners of floating offshore oil drilling rigs on Wednesday began a final round of wage talks with three Norwegian labour unions in a bid to prevent the outbreak of strike action that could disrupt exploration, but not production, negotiators said.
Exiled Moldovan politician Ilan Shor, sentenced in absentia for mass fraud, announced on Monday the creation of a new political bloc to replace a pro-Russian party bearing his name that was banned by court order.
Barcelona's central Plaça Catalunya train and metro station has reopened after reports of a suspicious object found there turned out to be a false alarm, police said on Tuesday, a day after the same station was evacuated due to a false bomb threat.
United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby has blamed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after severe storms led to thousands of canceled flights in recent days.
Water levels on the Rhine in Germany were close to normal levels on much of the river after heavy rain last week but remained too shallow in some northern and central areas for cargo vessels to sail fully loaded, commodity traders said on Monday.