👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 This year, Boxing Day marks the twentieth anniversary of the tsunami that caused 230,000 deaths around South East Asia. So with the Daily on a brief break, we’re replaying an episode of Storycast which tells the story of Martunis. On 26 December 2004, one […]

Former Volkswagen Group chief executive Martin Winterkorn has accused the judge leading a criminal trial into the 77-year-old’s alleged role in the diesel emissions scandal of bias, dpa learnt on Monday. In a letter to the Braunschweig Regional Court in central Germany seen by dpa, Winterkorn’s defence lawyers say the former executive h

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati visited military posts in the south of the country on Monday for the first time since the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel came into force last month. “We have a lot of work ahead of us,” Mikati said, according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA). The most important […]

A Nissan logo is pictured on a car during the second day of the 89th Geneva Motor Show. Uli Deck/Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH/dpa Japanese carmakers Honda and Nissan are discussing a merger with Mitsubishi Motors in a bid to counter fierce global competition in the field of electric vehicles, the companies said in a statement released […]

Japanese car giants, Honda and Nissan, have announced plans to merge. That would make them the third largest car maker by sales. The two companies said they had signed a memorandum of understanding, which would also include the smaller Nissan Alliance member, Mitsubishi Motors, in the talks on integration. Japan’s car makers have struggled to