Nick Winning

LONDON—Oscar-winning film director, actor and producer Richard Attenborough, one of the leading lights of British cinema, has died at the age of 90.

Royal baby No. 2 is on its way! On Monday, Clarence House confirmed the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their second child. Photo: WPA Pool/Getty Images LONDON—Prince William, the second in line to the U.K. throne, and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, announced on Monday that they are expecting their second child, triggering a flurry of good wishes and speculation about the gender and name of the royal baby.

LONDON—The U.K. government said on Friday that it was leaning toward a formal intervention in the European Commission’s review of 21st Century Fox Inc.’s $14.6 billion bid to buy the 61% of British pay-TV giant Sky PLC it doesn’t already own. The government said it hadn’t made a decision yet, and would consider the matter over the next 10 days, but that it was “minded” to inject itself in European Union deliberations over the deal on...