...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...

...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...

...race narrowing in recent weeks, with John McCain improving. A poll of national polls by...2 to 43 per cent. The trend favours Mr McCain.But state-by-state surveys favour Mr Obama...states favour Mr Obama. In Florida, Mr McCain's lead is down to 1.4 percentage points...

...discovering). It was so in spades on the campaign with John McCain and again back in Alaska after the election, prompting her...Paree.The score settling with the BOBs (and some girls) around McCain and in the national media may have Washington a-twitter but...

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,