Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images Traffic queues on the M8 motorway following its closure in Livingston, Scotland. New petrol and diesel cars could be banned in the U.K. by 2040 under plans set to be announced by the U.K. government on Wednesday, according to a report by the BBC. …

Photo President Trump used his speech to the Boy Scouts as a platform for political grievances, and Stephen Colbert was not thrilled about it. Credit CBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you …

Drew Angerer | Getty Images A person dressed as the Nintendo character Mario waves at a pop-up Nintendo venue in Madison Square Park, March 3, 2017 in New York City. Nintendo swung to profit in its financial first quarter, beating analyst expectations, boosted by a strong performance from its new …

Photo Kong, the beast in “Kong: Skull Island.” Credit Warner Bros. Pictures “Kong: Skull Island” bumps the 1933 King Kong classic into the Vietnam era and supersizes its main attraction. And three music moguls search Atlanta for the next major talent. What’s Streaming KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017) on iTunes and …

SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee inspects a Hyundai Motor Genesis sedan on the production line at the company’s plant in Ulsan, South Korea, on Monday, April 24, 2017. Hyundai Motor’s bleak results stretched into a 14th straight quarter as political headwinds continued to drag down sales …

The quarries themselves, as these photos by Luca Locatelli attest, are their own isolated world: beautiful, bizarre and severe. It is a self-contained universe of white, simultaneously industrial and natural, where men with finger-nubs stand on scenic cliffs conducting tractors like symphony orchestras. Over the centuries, the strange geology of …

RONALDO SCHEMIDT | AFP | Getty Images Opposition demonstrators make an altar on the site where young activist Neomar Lander was mortally wounded during clashes with riot police Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is pressing ahead with a controversial election to form a new government that opponents and analysts fear will …

Photo Barbara Blakeley Marx and Frank Sinatra in London in 1975. They married the following year. Credit Evening Standard/Getty Images Barbara Sinatra, Frank Sinatra’s fourth wife and a prominent advocate and philanthropist who raised millions of dollars to help abused children, died on Tuesday at her home in Rancho Mirage, …

Saeed Khan | AFP | Getty Images People walk past the Reserve Bank of Australia building in the central business district of Sydney on July 4, 2017. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) welcomes a recent pick up in the labor market, although subdued wages and high household debt means …

Photo In a 2015 photo, Charif Kiwan, Abounaddara’s spokesman, watches an earlier video from the group, “The Old Man and Jihad.” Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Abounaddara, the Syrian video art collective that earned international acclaim for its documentation of Syrian life, has removed the vast majority of …