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• Levy on City trading aimed at restoring trust in banks • Survey shows more than 50% of voters back plan Gordon Brown will take his radical proposal to tax City trading to Britain's business leaders today, as a survey shows...
Warmest congrats to ITV on finally concluding its thrilling quest for a new chairman. It’s been a blast these recent months, with a seemingly endless succession of giants touted for the job before vanishing from view.
A five-year-old speech against Turkey’s European Union accession process by Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, who was named last week as the first president of the EU, should not lead to concerns over his probable...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who seem to be determined to preserve the European Union as a “Christian Club,” first saw to it that former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a...
Henry Kissinger, the ever-querulous former U.S. Secretary of State, still asks from time to time whom he should telephone when he wishes to speak to the chief representative of Europe. The issue is as nebulous as ever. And the...
The state-subsidised programme, which encourages firms to place workers on shorter shifts rather than fire them, has held back unemployment in Germany even as the economy struggles with its deepest recession in six decades.
A bid by Roland Koch, leader of the German state of Hesse, to block a contract extension for Nikolaus Brender, editor-in-chief of ZDF, has provoked fury in a country still sensitive about press censorship under the Nazis.
23/11/2009Scandal and tragedy leave football scarred Allegations surfaced of widespread matchfixing from Germany to Bosnia-Hercegovina filtering down to even regional matches and Under-19 level. Paris -- It is just as well...
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC World Service global poll finds that dissatisfaction with free market capitalism is widespread, with an average of only 11% across 27 countries saying that it works well...
When Hillary Clinton called David Miliband ‘vibrant' and 'vital’, eyebrows were raised - but why? Men hire, date and marry younger women all the time, says Kathy Lette US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) and...
