Cable fire cuts power to tens of thousands of Berlin homes and businesses

Tens of thousands of homes in Berlin will be without electricity until Thursday as authorities struggle to repair power cables seriously damaged in a suspected arson attack, officials said. Some may also be without heating as the outage has affected local systems, at a time when the German capital is blanketed in snow and temperatures are hovering around freezing. Emergency services were alerted early Saturday that several high-voltage cables on a bridge near a power plant had gone up in...