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Brown wants global deal on banks

Gordon Brown will today set out measures which will call for international agreement on bankers' pay and bonuses. Addressing the Scottish Labour conference in Dundee, Mr Brown will demand that remuneration for bankers be redefined in a 'global new deal' to be agreed at next months G20 summit in London.... [continued]

Hillary Clinton seeks to engage Russia and Iran

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reached out to Russia and Iran at her first Nato summit in Brussels. Mrs Clinton offered the Russians a formal resumption of ties between the country and the defence organisation through reopening the Nato-Russia Council, which was suspended following Russia's attacks on Georgia... [continued]

BoE cuts rate and prints money

The Bank of England yesterday slashed interest rates to a fresh new low of just half a per cent, the sixth such cut since the global economic crisis began to unravel. The national bank also announced that they would begin 'quantitative easing', the policy of effectively printing money, after they...[continued]

Firms bought private data on staff

The spectre of workers being blacklisted by their employers has returned to the haunt the British economy, as more than 40 major companies are to be revealed today as having bought secret information about applicants for positions working for the firms. Many of the companies accused claim that they never... [continued]

Lahore gunmen had al-Qaeda links

The terrorists who attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, Pakistan, on Tuesday had links to al-Qaeda, according to security sources in the country. The officials also confirmed that their have already been several arrests of key suspects in the attacks, including the detention of the brother of the man... [continued]

Charities fear Sudan tragedy

Aid officials fear that a major disaster could soon unfurl in Sudan, after the regime in Khartoum expelled humanitarian relief organisations in retaliation for the International Criminal Court judgment on Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir released on Wednesday. The staff of 13 charities including Oxfam, Medecins Sans Frontieres and Care were... [continued]