• The Independent

    Four dead and almost one million without power as severe storm rips through Texas

    Fast-moving storm, the second to hit Houston this month, brings wind gusts of up to 100mph

  • Reuters

    Carlos Slim's FCC to spin off and list cement and real estate unit

    Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's Spanish unit FCC plans to spin off its cement and real estate assets into a separate business to be called Inmocemento, which would be then listed on the Madrid stock market. FCC's board believes the move would boost shareholder value as the new and existing companies are likely to be worth more apart than together, FCC said in a filing to the stock market regulator on Thursday evening. Inmocemento would take FCC's cement plants and the majority stake it owns in real estate developer Realia as well as the minority stake in bigger Metrovacesa.

  • Variety

    Carlos Saura’s ‘The Hunt’ Gets Modern-Day ‘Revision,’ Rolls in July (EXCLUSIVE)

    “La Mesías” star Carmen Machi, Almodóvar muse Rossy de Palma and Blanca Portillo, a Cannes best actress co-winner for Almodóvar’s “Volver,” are set to star in “The Prey” (“Dia de Caza”), billed as a contemporary revision of Carlos Saura’s 1965 pic “The Hunt,” quite possibly his crowing achievement. The film is set to shoot in …