corporate
Dollar takes a poundingStirling has soared to a 26-year-high against the dollar. That is partly because UK interest rates… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Mexican tycoon is said to be world’s richest manBringing new meaning to the saying “You can never be too rich or too slim,” the world reportedly… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Danone selling biscuits division to KraftThe head of French food group Danone, Franck Riboud, and Irene Rosenfeld, his counterpart from … 03/07/07 07:07 CET
europa
EU vineyard destruction in a good cause, says BoelEurope’s wine growers have a hangover even before Brussels’ proposals on radical reform of their… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Luxembourg vintners balk at EU wine reform plansTearing up wine growers’ life work was never guaranteed to make the European Commission more… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
interview
Barzani fears Turkish intervention in IraqMassoud Barzani the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq has warned of a potential… 03/07/07 12:07 CET
world news
President Bush accused of being “above the law”.The American President George W Bush has been accused of abuse of power, after sparing the former… 03/07/07 12:07 CET
Japan’s government reeling from new blowJapan’s struggling Liberal Democrat government has suffered a new blow with the resignation of the… 03/07/07 12:07 CET
Another foreign doctor seized over UK car bombsThe investigation into a suspected plot to detonate car bombs in Britain has widened after police… 03/07/07 12:07 CET
ETA suspects arrested in FranceTwo suspected members of the Basque armed separatist group ETA have been arrested near Paris in a… 03/07/07 12:07 CET
Bush “doesn’t rule out” pardon for LibbyUS President George W Bush has said he doesn’t rule out a pardon for a White House aide a day after… 03/07/07 08:07 CET
Suicide bomber kills tourists in YemenLittle remains of a 4X4 vehicle after it was rammed by what is suspected to have been an al-Qaeda… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Friends again but little to show in US/Russia summitThe American and Russian presidents engaged in water sports off Kennebunkport at the Bush family… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
UK bomb hunt reaches AustraliaThe enquiry into the latest bombing attacks in Britain has gone global with the arrest in Brisbane… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Commuters angry at German strikeRail workers in Germany have said they plan to extend a series of strikes in support of higher… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Violence in Pakistan, in clashes at a radical mosque.At least nine people, including a Pakistani soldier, a television cameraman, and innocent… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Afganistan conference focusses on civilian deathsThe rising number of civilian casualties has been the focus of a second day of talks at a Rome… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Ex-president Taylor makes surprise court appearanceThe former Liberian president Charles Taylor has made a surprise appearance at the special UN court… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Britain in shock over NHS ‘terror’ arrestsThe claims of a terrorist conspiracy at the centre of Britain’s National Health Service has sent… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Bush saves Libby’s baconThe President of the United States has intervened to prevent Lewis Libby, a convicted former… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
Britain’s state of alert becomes ever more obviousThe critical state of alert in Britain – following attempted terrorist attacks in Glasgow and… 03/07/07 07:07 CET
