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Masked youths burn 80 cars in southern Sweden overnight

Bloomberg More than 80 cars were set ablaze in cities across southwestern Sweden overnight as groups of masked youths threw stones and started fires in what may have been a coordinated action. In the Frolunda neighbourhood of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second-largest city, 31 cars burned and 35 were damaged as a group of 6-8 masked youths threw stones and started fires, ...

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20 die as highway bridge collapses in Italy

Bloomberg A bridge on the main highway running down the Italian Mediterranean coast in the port city of Genoa has collapsed, and reports said at least 20 people died with others trapped in the rubble. Shares of Atlantia SpA, which runs the stretch of highway, fell almost 11 percent in Milan, the company’s biggest intraday drop since 2008. Atlantia Chief ...

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No cheap gasoline for Venezuelans: Maduro

Bloomberg President Nicolas Maduro took to the airwaves to tell Venezuelan drivers that the days of being able to fill up their tanks with some of the cheapest gasoline in the world were over. From August 15-17, drivers must register to receive subsidies for gasoline purchases, and those who do not will have to pay international prices for fuel. Maduro, ...

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