...publicThe public hearings of the UK inquiry into the Iraq war , chaired by Sir John Chilcot, begin in London.Gore on business changes Al Gore , the former US vice-president and environmental campaigner, speaks in Toronto on how physical changes to the planet will...

...burdens of the developed economies, are now the highest for an individual country, according to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.In contrast, the outstanding volume of CDS linked to emerging nations such as Russia, Brazil, Ukraine and Indonesia have...

...economy moving again."He did not set out any new policies to achieve that objective, other than repeating a planned cut to corporation tax from 28p to 25p, funded by ending some allowances, and by scrapping national insurance contributions for start-up companies...

...per cent first-year capital allowances for another 12 months, until April 2011. The EEF wants the small companies' rate of corporation tax frozen until the same date.To assist exporters, it called for talks with the European Union to allow the government to...

...per cent first-year capital allowances for another 12 months, until April 2011. The EEF wants the small companies' rate of corporation tax frozen until the same date.To assist exporters, it called for talks with the European Union to allow the government to...

...Club dinner at Mossiman's midweek, Monsieur Levy injected more V's - "for victory" - into his depiction of the recovery. He broke down patterns region by region and sector by sector, applying the V to China and Asia generally.The luxury goods purveyors were all...

...councils" and turned on their former allies, al-Qaeda in Iraq.Iraqi officials did not blame...residents said the murders bore the signature of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which lost the ability to...paramilitary groups, known as Sons of Iraq.Ihab al-Sobai, a spokesman for the local Sons of...

The mere possibility that a $7.4bn technology merger in California might be blocked by regulators nearly half the world away

...any accuracy. How on earth do you measure an economy's potential? In a 1999 paper, Athanasios Orphanides and Simon Van Norden cite three big problems. First, the construction of output data is continually being updated - real time apples end up being compared...

...in central London and Paris, where yields are tumbling fast. Although the prime market traditionally rebounds first, observers cite a confluence of factors for the particularly sharp, rapid turnaround this time."This is the first time we have been through a...