On his way home from work this week in Tehran, Majid, a 34-year-old computer programmer, encountered traffic chaos because a power outage had disabled the stoplights. Earlier in the day, he and his co-workers had been trapped on the 16th…

On his way home from work this week in Tehran, Majid, a 34-year-old computer programmer, encountered traffic chaos because a power outage had disabled the stoplights. Earlier in the day, he and his co-workers had been trapped on the 16th…
Two days after one of Europe’s worst blackouts in decades plunged tens of millions of people across Spain and Portugal into darkness for up to 18 hours, officials from both countries emerged from hourslong meetings and gave little indication publicly…
Rocio Vilaplana, a dentist in southeastern Spain, was closing a suture in a patient’s mouth during oral surgery early Monday afternoon when the lights went out. “Everything started beeping,” Ms. Vilaplana said. Her backup generator kicked in, the emergency lights…
Traffic lights went dark at busy intersections. Trains stopped in the middle of a workday. And long lines formed at A.T.M.s and grocery stores, where credit card readers stopped working. Widespread power outages upended life for millions across Spain and…
Spain and Portugal were hit by a major power outage on Monday, bringing to a halt daily activity throughout the two countries, with businesses shutting down along with trains, subways and airline flights. Officials did not say what caused the…
The head of an airline advocacy group warned officials at Heathrow Airport of the threat posed by potential substation failures days before a fire forced the shutdown of the airport last month, he told British lawmakers on Wednesday. “I’d actually…
A gleaming new data center sits less than half a mile from the electric substation where a fire plunged Heathrow Airport into darkness last week. The data center’s own power was also cut that day. But no one who relied…
The British government has ordered an urgent investigation into how a fire at an electricity substation left Heathrow Airport in London in darkness on Friday, crippling one of the world’s busiest airports. “We are determined to properly understand what happened…
Throngs of passengers anxious to get on their way surged into Heathrow Airport in London on Saturday, a day after a power blackout closed the airport and forced thousands to delay their trips. As information boards flickered back to life,…
Heathrow Airport in London, one of the world’s busiest air hubs, resumed full operations on Saturday. But after a fire at an electrical substation halted operations for most of Friday, global travel remained disrupted. The police were still investigating what…