www.ft.comBrown calls for global tax on bankspublished about 9 hours ago
World governments should consider urgently a levy on banks to fund future bailouts, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, departing from London's longstanding resistance to ... more
Afghanistan hits back at UN and foreign criticismpublished about 9 hours ago
Afghanistan hit back at pressure from Western powers for it to crackdown on corruption and accused the United Nations envoy to Kabul of seeking to ... more
Honduras pact crumbles over unity governmentpublished about 10 hours ago
An agreement to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed after two rival leaders failed to form a government of unity to heal the ... more
UK urges divided G20 to reach climate finance dealpublished about 10 hours ago
British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts to work toward a $100bn deal on tackling climate change as developing nations held firm they ... more
Bids for Turkey's power grids reach $1.2bnpublished about 21 hours ago
The auction serves as a test of market conditions that has persuaded Ankara's privatisation administration to press ahead with asset sales to ease strains on ... more
Former UBS client jailed over taxpublished about 21 hours ago
A US court handed down the first prison sentence to a US former client of UBS yesterday in a ruling that will unsettle the Swiss ... more
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