Gordon Brown set a target last night of deporting 4,000 foreign criminals by the end of the year as a way of easing the prison overcrowding crisis.
HM Revenue and Customs suffered a major defeat today when the House of Lords gave the legal all clear to a tax saving arrangement used by thousands of husband-and-wife small businesses.
Oil prices slipped for a fourth day on Wednesday on forecasts of higher refinery production in the United States that would ease worries over fuel supplies during peak summer demand.
Seventeen-year-old Quantae Williams doesn´t understand why the U.S. Supreme Court struck down his school district´s racial diversity program.
Shell has been forced to halt plans to start drilling in the Arctic by a court challenge from indigenous Alaskans and green groups who claim that polar bears and whales would be put at serious risk.
Chairman Chung Mong Koo of Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea´s largest automaker, asked the company´s management Monday to better prepare for global competition as the weaker yen becomes a "burden" for the carmaker.
Britain’s most successful IVF doctor was banned from running his own clinic yesterday after he was found guilty of treating patients without the correct licence.
Britain’s highest-ranking black police officer, Chief Constable Michael Fuller, will be called to the Bar today. Mr Fuller, 48, the Chief Constable of Kent, is believed to be the first serving chief constable to qualify as a barrister, although others have done so in retirement.
Software company to wipe all personal information relating to searches after 18 months, echoing a similar policy announced by Google in March
Delta Two, the Qatari investment fund stalking J Sainsbury, today confirmed that Tony Campbell, the former deputy chief executive at Asda and ex-colleague of Justin King, will become chairman of the supermarket group if its £10.4 billion bid for the business goes through.
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under congressional pressure to quit over the firing of nine U.S. prosecutors, vowed on Monday to stay and fix problems with the Justice Department.
Young lawyers at the UK’s leading law firms will have to wait longer and do more to distinguish themselves in order to become partners, a group of the City´s most powerful solicitors has predicted.
Britain has directly challenged Russia’s insistence that its Constitution bans extradition of the man who is suspected over the murder of the dissident former spy Alexander Litvinenko.
Turkey’s reformist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a resounding victory in early general elections last night, as voters dismissed concerns that he would launch a creeping plan to Islamise the state.
Oil fell more than $1 to below $77 a barrel on Monday after some funds booked profits as OPEC expressed concern over near record prices and pledged to pump more crude if needed.
Venezuela’s national oil company is being shaken by claims of corruption and by internal dissent, indicating fissures within the institution largely responsible for financing President Hugo Chávez’s widening array of social welfare programs and foreign aid projects.
Citigroup Inc. (C.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the largest U.S. bank, said on Friday that strong international and investment banking growth fueled a higher-than-expected 18 percent increase in quarterly profit.
A survey shows that the UK´s top 50 law firms are in rude health, with the top four generating more than £4 billion in fees last year
A man who donated his sperm for a lesbian couple to have a child won a legal fight yesterday to keep his son in the Irish Republic.
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