AP - Fresh from a grilling by U.S. lawmakers, Toyota President Akio Toyoda will speak Monday in China about his company’s quality problems, seeking to boost confidence and ease consumer worries in the world’s biggest auto market.[Read more...]
Previous of Images Next (From left ) Goga Ashkenazi, Catrina Skepper, Caroline Habib Photo: MARK STEWART Heather Kerzner and Sarah, Duchess of York Photo: MARK STEWART / BIG The Duke of York’s daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, organised a [...]
The IFE’s fundamentalist beliefs would not matter that much if it had no access to political power. But the particular skill of the organisation, and its allies, is to use secular politicians of many parties and the democratic process for its own, very different ends. At the last election, when George Galloway won [...]
AP - A weeping man strokes the hand of a dead woman in a collapsed cafe. Survivors huddle around bonfires in the rubble of their homes. Smashed cars lie beneath bridges torn asunder by one of history’s strongest earthquakes.[Read more...]
The U.K. made a slight upward revision in its fourth-quarter economic figures, but the modest acceleration in the country’s recovery from recession was in part owing to government spending that will have to be cut to rein in a record budget deficit. News that fourth-quarter gross domestic product grew 0.3% from the previous quarter—rather [...]
Jeffrey Skilling will ask the Supreme Court on Monday to throw out the 2006 convictions for conspiracy and fraud that landed the former president of Enron Corp. a 24-year prison term, in a case with possible implications for high-profile criminal defendants ranging from corporate chieftains to alleged terrorists. Bloomberg News Former Enron executive [...]
Terry cannot expect to get the armband back under Capello’s reign England coach Fabio Capello says John Terry will not regain the captaincy while he is in charge of the team.Terry was stripped of the role after allegations about his private life, with [...]
David Cameron is hoping to rally his party and appeal to voters David Cameron is expected to declare that it is his "patriotic duty" to oust Gordon Brown when he speaks at the Conservative’s spring conference.The Tory leader is due to say the [...]
AP - The U.S. “will be there” if Chile asks for rescue and recovery help after a powerful earthquake struck the South American nation, President Barack Obama said Saturday.[Read more...]
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Chile’s coastal towns have suffered severe damage in the quake Two million people [...]
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