Japan´s prime minister-to-be, Yasuo Fukuda, named his party lieutenants on Monday as he braced for a showdown with a combative opposition amid calls for early elections after a disastrous year for the ruling coalition.
High street banks are slashing credit card limits and turning away droves of borrowers in a consumer credit crackdown.
Disgruntled shareholders in Northern Rock and other troubled British companies looking to pin blame on senior management will receive a boost next month with the introduction of new laws making it easier to sue individual company directors.
U.S.-based toy giant Mattel Inc. issued an extraordinary apology to China on Friday over the recall of Chinese-made toys, taking the blame for design flaws and saying it had recalled more lead-tainted toys than justified.
Only one in eight crimes recorded by police in England and Wales ended with a suspect being charged or appearing in court, according to official figures released yesterday.
The second largest file-sharing network on the internet has been severely disabled in a significant coup for the music industry´s fight against piracy.
Federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint Thursday charging Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu with breaking campaign finance laws and creating a "massive" Ponzi scheme.
The spurned husband whose arranged marriage is at the center of the rape-accomplice charges against polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs took the witness stand to defend his prophet on Wednesday.
British consumers have been left £270 million out of pocket on claims UK supermarkets and dairy groups conspired to fix prices.
An investment banker who is suing a his former employer for £10 million alleging race discrimination risked derailing a major restructuring programme because he was only interested in himself, a tribunal was told today.
Hopes of an early cut in interest rates after the Northern Rock crisis leapt yesterday as inflation took a surprise tumble and the US made an aggressive reduction in its rates by half a point.
An amnesty to allow illegal immigrants to seek British citizenship was backed by the Liberal Democrats yesterday as Nick Clegg, the party’s home affairs spokesman, insisted that immigration was good for Britain.
A police chief has said that her force is struggling to cope with the feuds and criminal behaviour that is imported into the UK by immigrants.
The US Federal Reserve leapt to the rescue of the fragile American economy yesterday and cut its key interest rate by a half-point, sparking euphoria in US and global markets.
The Liberal Democrats yesterday became the first Westminster party to back a zero-carbon Britain, including a ban on all petrol driven cars by 2040, but had to fight off warnings from some senior members that the simultaneous rejection of nuclear power meant the plans did not add up.
Two Senate Democrats warned Monday that the Judiciary Committee would delay confirmation of President Bush’s choice for attorney general unless the White House turned over documents that the panel was seeking for several investigations.
The confidential protection enjoyed by lawyers over their communications does not extend to in-house lawyers, the European Court of First Instance ruled yesterday.
The legality of inheritance tax is under challenge. Last week Joyce Burden, 89, and her sister, Sybil, 81, lodged a last-ditch appeal in Strasbourg over the rule that each will have to pay inheritance tax on the home they jointly own near Marlborough, Wiltshire, because they cannot have the same exemptions given to married or gay couples in civil partnerships.
Northern Rock shares rebounded today in the wake of the Government´s decision to guarantee deposits, but customers remained concerned
President George W. Bush plans to announce on Monday he has chosen former federal judge Michael Mukasey as his nominee for attorney general, the White House said.
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