...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...

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

...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...

...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...

...leaseback and rental company Pierre et Vacances (P&V) recounts that British investors' first...as 4-5 per cent.For UK investors, P&V dominates the leaseback market - and...this position in two ways. First, P&V's parent company is aggressively expanding...

BACKGROUND NEWSAustralia's AMP has teamed up with French rival Axa to engineer a takeover bid for Axa Asia Pacific, the

Where Barney Frank, chairman of the US House of Representatives financial services committee, uses a scalpel, Chris Dodd,

...very rich man indeed.Haslam now serves the nouveau-est of the riches: men and women who have been catapulted into wealth, who need...least not this one - alone. This week's rescue of the world's richest men from a gang of Green Marxist terrorists managed to prompt...

...emirate's financial troubles continues to build.Omar bin Sulaiman, governor of the centre since 2004, has been replaced by Ahmed al Tayer, a former finance minister. He is chairman of Emirates NBD, Dubai's largest bank, and a member of one of the merchant families...

...cease.That came just after Mrs Clinton said in Pakistan she found it hard to believe no one in the country's government knew where al-Qaeda leaders were hiding - during a visit to bolster relations with Islamabad.She has made similarly blunt statements on many...