Shopping centre owner Intu to tap up shareholders to pay down £5bn debts
One of Britainbiggest shopping centre owners has revealed it will be tapping up shareholders for extra cash to pay down its debts.

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Miner Anglo American hands £405m lifeline to Sirius Minerals
Anglo American has said it will step in to save a mining project which promises to be Britainlargest in decades, as it tabled a £405 million bid to buy the shares of Sirius Minerals.

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Sharp rise in number of viral pneumonia cases in China
More than 100 new cases ofviral pneumonia have been reported in China with the death toll from the infection increasing to three.

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More than 70 prisoners, including members of Brazil's most powerful gang, have escaped from a jail in Paraguay after digging a tunnel.

Cells filled with as many as 200 bags of earth were found as the government claimed some prison officials were believed to have known about the operation in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero.

The facility's director

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The White House has unveiled its legal defence as the Senate prepares for the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Tuesday.

The US president's team argue that the Democrats have wrongly identified abuse of power as an impeachable offence, and that the impeachment process itself has been "irredeemably

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