Telecommunications companies won a skirmish in the Senate on Monday as a bill to protect them from lawsuits for cooperating with the Bush administration’s eavesdropping programs easily overcame a procedural hurdle.
Any child can tell a chocolate teacake from a chocolate biscuit, but tax officials who failed to spot the difference may have landed the Treasury with a £3.5 million bill.
UBS, the Swiss bank, has been accused in a court in New York of hiding losses and misleading shareholders as the US sub-prime mortgage market collapsed.
Three British businessmen yesterday pleaded guilty in a Houston court as part of a plea bargain that will see them serve their prison sentences in the UK.
Along the main thoroughfare of this small meatpacking town, the transformation of a single shop, once known as the Ken-A-Bob restaurant, tells the story of the town itself.
Euphoria over coordinated moves by leading central banks to fix the global credit crisis wore off quickly on Thursday with investors sending stocks sharply lower and shuffling money into safer assets.
The mother of a teenage French boy who was raped in Dubai has won her campaign for justice for her son and for reform of the treatment of rape victims in the Emirates.
The leaders of 26 European Union member states formally signed the bloc´s controversial constitutional reform treaty today, with only Gordon Brown missing the signature ceremony.
The Home Secretary is facing a growing revolt among chief constables and from within the Government’s own ranks over her decision to renege on an agreed police pay deal.
The Russian government has ordered the British Council to close down virtually its entire operation in the country by the beginning of January, worsening the already poor relations between Russia and Britain.
Evidence from telephone taps and other surveillance should be permitted in legal hearings to freeze terrorists’ assets, Jacqui Smith proposed yesterday.
John Hutton, the Business and Enterprise Secretary, is expected to publish within the next week the Competition Commission’s conclusions from its inquiry into the legitimacy of BSkyB’s shareholding in ITV.
Three British oil executives are set to plead guilty today over alleged roles in a price-fixing cartel in a US case that could set a crucial precedent for extradition and prosecution of other British white-collar workers in America.
Lawyers within the clandestine branch of the Central Intelligence Agency gave written approval in advance to the destruction in 2005 of hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting interrogations of two lieutenants from Al Qaeda, according to a former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the episode.
China´s annual consumer price inflation hit an 11-year high in November, with new signs that price pressures are spreading from food to the broader economy, raising the prospect of more aggressive monetary tightening.
The United States urged a U.N. climate meeting on Monday to drop a 2020 target for deep cuts in greenhouse gases by rich nations from guidelines for a new pact to slow global warming beyond 2012.
Lord Black of Crossharbour was sentenced to 6½ years in prison in the US yesterday for stealing millions from the newspaper empire that he built.
Five press freedom campaigners from France who said they were denied visas to China unfurled a huge flag depicting handcuffs arranged as Olympic rings in front of Beijing´s liaison office in Hong Kong on Monday.
Shoppers who use store cards to pay for Christmas will be forced to repay billions of pounds in “extortionate” interest payments.
THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is to relaunch a criminal investigation of alleged corruption at Britain’s biggest arms company, BAE Systems.
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