Conservative plans to strip England's regional development agencies of powers have prompted a backlash from business groups,

...the small Bahraini economy.A $6bn luxury coastal resort, Durrat al-Bahrain, has been built several kilometres south of Askar, partly...will make landfall on the Qatari peninsula, was once home to the Al-Khalifa family, now rulers of Bahrain.A related dispute over Zubarah...

...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...

Bridges Ventures, the social investing venture capital firm set...Cohen, is to target the property sector for the first time.Bridges has completed the first round of fundraising for a new...have an initial war chest of more than £50m, although Bridges will continue to raise equity over the next 12 months.Michele...

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

...search in Powys, for a woman swept along the River Usk, was being hampered by bad weather. Six bridges were reported to have collapsed and all 1,800 bridges in Cumbria were being inspected. The floods also left 5,000 households without power. But...

The disastrous procurement process used for the building that houses Scotland's devolved parliament continues to cast a long

...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...

When Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, last visited Washington, in 2005, he was presented with a historic gift by then

...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...