Brown calls for coordinated tax cuts
Gordon Brown has called on world leaders to agree coordinated tax cuts and increases in public spending to help drag the global economy out of recession in the run-up to the G20 summit this weekend. He made the comments after arriving in New York for the meeting between the leaders... [continued]
The Business Pages: all the latest on the financial crisis 
Obama can heal rift with Europe
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged President-elect Barack Obama to help heal the rift between Europe and America. Blair says he believes Obama could take the lead on issues such as climate change, the Middle East peace process and African poverty, issues which the Bush administration is widely... [continued]
American Transition: all the latest from Washington
Alexander Cockburn: Economic woes pile into Obama's in tray
RBS to slash 3,000 jobs
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to slash 3,000 jobs in its global banking and markets departments as it awaits a £20bn payout from the UK Government. At present the bank has 170,000 staff of which around 100,000 are based in the UK. It is understood that RBS's... [continued]
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Bin Laden ‘isolated’ from Al Qaeda
The CIA believes Osama bin Laden has become "isolated" from the day-to-day operation of Al Qaeda, but his capture is still the top priority of the US security forces. The American intelligence body's director Michael Hayden said it was thought that the Saudi militant, believed to be behind the... [continued]
People: bin Laden's son seeks asylum in Spain
Wall Street crisis gives Osama bin Laden the last laugh
Ministers told of threat to Baby P
Government ministers were warned of the threat to Baby P six months before she died by a concerned social worker turned whistleblower, it has emerged. Lawyers for Nevres Kemal wrote to the then Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, junior health ministers Rosie Winterton and Ivan Lewis, Tottenham MP David Lammy, and... [continued]
The Mole: Cameron gets bogged down in child abuse row
First alien planet photographed
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first photograph of a planet outside of our own solar system. The alien planet, around the same size as Jupiter, appears as a tiny red dot in the middle of a giant dust ring. The planet, which has been named Fomalhaut b, orbits... [continued]
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