The crisis of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen has deepened further with a revelation that it had understated the fuel consumption of 800,000 cars produced in Europe. An internal investigation also revealed what the company called inconsistency in carbon dioxide emission's test. VW had previously acknowledged problems in 11 million vehicles with diesel engines.
US Safety regulators have posted a fine of up to 200 million dollars on the Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata. The carried-up problem linked to at least 7 deaths. The US transport secretary Anthony Foxx said the company's attitude have turned a serious problem into a crisis. For years, Takata has built and sold defective inflators.It refused to acknowledge
that they were defected. It provide incomplete, inaccurate and misleading information to NHTSA, to the companies using its inflators and to the public. This failures put millions of Americans at risk.
The organizer of the 2014 world cup in Brazil has pleaded not guilty to accepting bribes worth millions of dollars. Jose Maria Marin appeared in a court in New York after being extradited from Switzerland. Nick Bryan reports. Jose Maria Marin was among seven FIFA officials arrested in May in a dawn raid of a hotel in Zurich. Hours after arriving on America soil, the former footballer turned politician appeared in a Brooklyn federal court house where he struggled to stand up during his brief hearing. Through interpreter he pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
More than 20,000 people have attended a demonstration in the Romanian capital Bucharest calling that the country's prime minister to resign over a night club fire which killed 32 people on Friday. Many protestors waved national flags with holes in them as symbol of the revolution which toppled Nicolae Ceausescu 25 years ago. World news from the BBC.
The Egyptian authority expressed doubts that the Russian plane which crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday broke up in mid air. The civil aviation ministry official said there was no evidence to substantiate a Russian claim that the aircraft has disintegrated at the height of 30,000 feet. In another development, US officials told American television networks that one of their military satellites had detected a heat flash at the time it's a crash.
The US government says it will continue its review of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline despite a request for pause from the company behind a controversial project. On Monday, TransCanada said it has asked for suspension while it negotiates with Nebraska over the pipeline's route. The Obama adminstration is widely expected to reject the pipeline. The White House pre-secretary Josh Earnest said president Obama's final decision would be based solely on facts. There is no doubt that this debate has been heavily influenced by politics and the president is doing his best to try to shield the actual process that will consider the naret of the project from those politics, as I would stipulate that it's a difficult challenge but it's one that the president committed to.
The British oil company Soco has announced that it's given up the exploration license for an area in the democratic republic of Congo's the Virunga National Park. Soco gave no reason for its decision but it suspended exploration last year in the area home to the endangered Mountain Gorilla following an environmental protest.
11,000 crocodiles that had gone unfed for almost a month in Honduras becaue their owners had their assets frozen will finally receive some food. More than 10,000 kilograms of chicken and 2000 kilos of cow entrails have been donated to the farm where they are kept. The animals are owned by the Rosenthal family. US investigators accused three members of the family of laundrying money for drug traffiking. BBC news.