...matter this autumn when it hears Harris v. Jones. For the US retail mutual fund industry, Harris v. Jones is "the most important litigation...rejected by a lower court.The case, Gallus et al. v. Ameriprise, centres on complaints from...

The tentative recovery by Europe's fund management industry gathered pace in the third quarter of 2009, spreading its

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

...collection, where users could upload photos of themselves. And, as the new faces took their places next to Wintour, Menkes et al for the Dolce & Gabbana show, the Italian brand's in-house cameras rolled, streamlining the event directly on to YouTube...

...system - signed into law last month - open the way to more prosecutions, as does the case against Khaled Sheikh Mohammed et al.Mr Obama also has a full-time diplomat looking for jurisdictions to take in former detainees. And in the end, the US may...

...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...

...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...

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

...physical appearance - but whether one believes that manipulation and exploitation are at work via the invidious Barbie, Bratz et al is debatable. What is undeniable is that the beauty pageants and the pamper parties wouldn't exist without adult collusion...