...see its majority control floated by PPR next week, is a trading business with a 150-year history in France's colonial past, writes Scheherazade...alongside an option to offer up to 57.9 per cent through a stock market flotation.The price range of €24.80 to...

...children, unhappy at home, find a place where they spend "winter...two best comedies now running - Miranda (BBC2 Monday) and The Thick of...past week, too, but as comedy. Miranda (Hart), as brilliant in the second...and Blyton-like inhibition. In a series of inspired clownings...

The killing of a Sunni politician and 12 other menhave rekindled...al-Qaeda in Iraq.Iraqi officials did not blame a specific group for the killings but residents...groups, known as Sons of Iraq.Ihab al-Sobai, a spokesman for the local Sons of Iraq, disputed...

...giggle if you wiggle your ears?/Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown."Miranda Hart, who plays "herself" in the new comedy...shines the more in what had been something of a parched season for comedy.Miranda is not the only oasis: The Thick of It (BBC2...

...group is now branded as part of a larger company, Agility, which this month won a $50m contract to manage food...Iraq killingsThe killing of a Sunni politician and 12 other...troops withdraw from Iraq, writes Ernesto Londoño in Baghdad. Iraqi authorities...

Iraqi lawmakers on Sunday night passed a long-delayed election law, paving the way for elections early next year and averting a constitutional crisis that threatened to...election, due to be held in January, is seen as a crucial test for Iraq as it emerges from...

...are unlikely to be much less than a year or two ago.As Mexico braces...Luis Flores, an economist at IXE, a Mexican bank, recalls it well...he says. "It was incredible."Ernesto Cervera, an economist at GEA, a consultancy in the capital city...

...Mexico needs, were at best modest: a 2 percentage point rise in VAT...urgently required.The fiscal issue is a prime example. Mexico has one of...lives below the poverty line.As Ernesto Cervera, an economist at GEA, a Mexico City consultancy, puts it...

...the burning of cane fields - a practice necessary when cutting...biggest sugar producer to shed a reputation for antiquated working...environmentalists.Francelino Lamy de Miranda Grando, the secretary of industrial...these claims," he says.In Araras, a town two hours' drive from the...

...exepected out today by Tabb Group, a US consultancy, that says that...of the Atlantic have launched a sweeping review of such trading...growth in trading, even from a small base, is likely to provide...alternative ways to be fulfilled.Miranda Mizen, author of the Tabb report...