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 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

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

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

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

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