
-
Ovechkin set to achieve the 'impossible'
-
Colombia's 'Lord of the Fruit' fighting for native species
-
Why are proposed deep-sea mining rules so contentious?
-
Trump begins mass layoffs at Voice of America
-
Stranded US astronauts to return to Earth on Tuesday: NASA
-
McIlroy and Spaun battle into Monday playoff at storm-hit Players
-
'I like it' - Russian teen Andreeva relishes quick rise in WTA's ranks
-
Newcastle revel in 'strange smell' of success after League Cup glory
-
Bullish Martinez eyeing treble for Inter after statement win at Atalanta
-
Draper powers past Rune to win Indian Wells ATP Masters
-
Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne dead at 43: family, agent
-
Colombia warns Trump against drug blacklisting
-
PSG beat Marseille as Montpellier game abandoned due to crowd trouble
-
Barca mount late comeback to stun Atletico in thriller
-
Inter on course to retain Serie A title with win at Atalanta
-
Amorim welcomes break despite Man Utd upturn
-
'Magic moment' to inspire Bayern chase, says Leverkusen boss Alonso
-
McIlroy leads as final round resumes at storm-hit Players
-
Arsenal edge out Chelsea, Man Utd beat Leicester
-
Schick late show caps Leverkusen fightback to close gap on Bayern
-
Israel's Netanyahu seeks to fire internal security agency chief
-
Andreeva, 17, tops world No. 1 Sabalenka for Indian Wells title
-
Defiant Slot focuses on Liverpool Premier League push after League Cup woe
-
'I feel like I'm dreaming', says Newcastle's League Cup hero Burn
-
Cavs win streak halted after Magic comeback
-
Quick Mofokeng brace helps Pirates sink leaders Sundowns
-
Marquez show rolls on with Marc beating Alex in Argentina
-
Howe joy as Newcastle end 'years of hurt'
-
Pope seen celebrating mass in first photo since hospitalisation
-
Montpellier Ligue 1 clash abandoned after crowd trouble
-
Freeman says England rising star Pollock knew he'd score a Six Nations debut try against Wales
-
Napoli miss out on Serie A summit, troubled Juve hammered by Fiorentina
-
Cuba gradually turning lights back on after island-wide blackout
-
Frankfurt beat Bochum and 50-minute delay to boost Champions League bid
-
Iran-backed Yemen rebels say attacked US carrier after air strikes
-
Newcastle stun Liverpool in League Cup final to end 56-year trophy drought
-
Olympic badminton champion An Se-young wins All England Open
-
'Novocaine' wins painful weekend for N.America box office
-
McIlroy grabs lead as storm halts final round at Players
-
Frankfurt beat Bochum to tighten grip on top four spot
-
French deputy asks for return of Statue of Liberty
-
Brazil's Bolsonaro blasts election ban as 'denial of democracy'
-
China's top seed Shi Yuqi wins All England Open
-
American Jorgenson defends Paris-Nice title
-
Hospitalised Pope Francis admits frailty, calls body 'weak'
-
Ayuso seals Tirreno-Adriatico as Milan claims final sprint stage
-
US vows 'unrelenting' campaign to halt Huthi ship attacks
-
US says 'multiple' leaders of Iran-backed rebels dead in Yemen strikes
-
Arsenal edge out Chelsea, Fulham beat Spurs
-
Thousands show support for coup-accused Bolsonaro at Rio rally

Cuba gradually turning lights back on after island-wide blackout
Power was slowly being restored across most of Cuba on Sunday, after nearly 40 hours without electricity, in the island's fourth major blackout in six months.
Lazaro Guerra, director of the island's Energia Electrica utility, said the Cuban power grid was now again "interconnected" from the western port of Mariel, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Havana, to Guantanamo province in the far east.
Power had yet to be restored, however, in part of western Cuba.
The authorities said the system was generating 935 megawatts of power nationwide on Sunday, well below the normal daily demand of 3,000 MW.
In Havana, a city of 2.1 million, just 19 percent of homes had regained power.
Some Cubans were awakened early Sunday by the sounds attending a restoration of power.
"At 5 am, there was a tremendous rush, charging phones, lamps, pumping water into tanks -- a tremendous uproar waking up the neighbors," Alex Picart, a 60-year-old resident of Guanabacoa, just east of Havana, told AFP.
Cubans have grown resigned to frequent outages -- including blackouts ranging anywhere from four hours to 20 hours or more.
But the constant disruptions are exhausting, they say, as outages cut off water and gas supplies as well as phone communications, and can virtually paralyze public transit.
"No elevator, no water, it's awful. I feel cornered, very annoyed," said Ruben Borroto, 69, who has to walk up seven floors to his Havana apartment.
The latest blackout began Friday with a failure at a substation in a Havana suburb, then spread across the island.
Cuba had seen three other major outages in the past half-year.
The island is suffering through its fourth year of economic crisis, and its eight thermal power plants, nearly all dating to the 1980s or 1990s, regularly fail.
Floating power barges and a series of generators shore up the national power system, but the US embargo makes it difficult to import fuel.
The government is rushing to install at least 55 solar parks this year -- enough, it says, to supply 12 percent of national demand.
M.A.Colin--AMWN