...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...

...Criteria CaixaCorp, its listed investment arm, owns 10 per cent of Hong Kong's Bank of East Asia, which has a strong retail branch presence in China.Criteria holds an option to increase that stake to 12.5 per cent and is considering negotiating a further...

...economies where credit scoring techniques were also patchy.The agreement with China Citic prevents BBVA from opening its own branches in China, leaving the Spanish bank to focus on wholesale banking where it has a strong niche.In particular, this means using...

...Criteria CaixaCorp, its listed investment arm, owns 10 per cent of Hong Kong's Bank of East Asia, which has a strong retail branch presence in China.Criteria holds an option to increase that stake to 12.5 per cent and is considering negotiating a further...

...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

...become the first foreign bank to open a branch in Jaffna, the war-torn northern peninsula...the UK-based banking group to open the branch by January is the strongest vote of confidence...he said. Mr Nicolaou added that the branch in Jaffna would serve the northern region's...

...with dangerous extremists in its ranks. Both are necessary.It was already known that Mr Hasan had contacted a radical cleric with al-Qaeda connections under investigation by the FBI. Now it seems he had discussed surreptitious financial transfers with this suspect...

...economies where credit scoring techniques were also patchy.The agreement with China Citic prevents BBVA from opening its own branches in China, leaving the Spanish bank to focus on wholesale banking where it has a strong niche.In particular, this means using...