Wife found Gary Speed's body, inquest hears
Wales football manager Gary Speed was found hanged at his home by his wife, an inquest was told today. The 42-year-old father-of-two was ...
TWO families are rejoicing after two men held in a Spanish prison were set free after four-and-a-half months
Kyle Thain, 24, and James Harris, 29, have been released on bail from Font Calent jail in Alicante. This has left family members and frien...
Spanish savings bank directors suspected of fraud
Spanish savings bank has fired two directors and is investigating two former executives for allegedly syphoning off €20 million ($26.5 mil...
British banks need to plan for a potentially disorderly break-up of the euro zone,
British banks need to plan for a potentially disorderly break-up of the euro zone, or the exit of some countries as part of their contingenc...
Hungary will investigate possible cartel activity on the household mortgage market by seven banks
Hungary will investigate possible cartel activity on the household mortgage market by seven banks, the Competition Authority said. The inve...
Bank stocks took a nose-dive on Wednesday
Bank stocks took a nose-dive on Wednesday on concerns about the European debt crisis and rigorous stress tests unveiled by the Federal Reser...
bank bail-out because “reckless lending” by international banks to Irish banks contributed to their collapse
European authorities should share the cost of Ireland’s €63bn ($84bn) bank bail-out because “reckless lending” by international banks to Iri...
James Murdoch has dramatically quit as director of the companies that publish the Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times
James Murdoch has dramatically quit as director of the companies that publish the Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times and analysts said he c...
The billionaire's Arcadia group is one of the biggest private employers in Britain, with over 44,000 staff in its 2,500 UK stores.
Arcadia, the owner of Top Shop and BhS, reported a 38% fall in annual profits to £133m and says it expects to close up to 260 stores in the ...
High Court yesterday granted Anglo Irish Bank a judgment compelling bankrupt Mr Quinn to repay some €416m
Sean Quinn was yesterday hit with the largest judgment ever registered in an Irish court -- but his children are unlikely to face a similar ...
Receiver's concern over Sean Quinn bankruptcy
Sean Quinn was declared bankrupt earlier this month The receiver appointed to oversee Sean Quinn's bankruptcy has expressed concerns abo...
Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it. So runs the slogan. Would you
Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it. So runs the slogan. Would you? Here's interim (that's reassuring) chief executive Sam Wei...
Spanish yields soar in T-bill sale
Spain’s Treasury saw yields rise to painfully high levels on Tuesday when it sold three-month bills at an average yield of 5.11 per cent, ...
China property dip sparks bank fears
The number of property transactions in China’s largest cities has fallen to dangerously low levels, according to regulatory documents obta...
Spain likely to see new protests after election
Spain is likely to see renewed street protests after an election that brought a conservative government bent on austerity to power but als...
euro zone's debt crisis swept closer to the heart of Europe
euro zone's debt crisis swept closer to the heart of Europe despite a clear-cut election victory in Spain for conservatives committed ...
Gang targets wealthy diners
Diners at some of the city's most popular restaurants had their credit card details stolen by waiters working for gangs, who targeted ...
The government has dismissed as false rumors that it is bankrupt.
The government has dismissed as false rumors that it is bankrupt. The romors have been citing late payment of salaries to civil servants and...
Fall of ‘Mighty Quinn’ mirrors Irish collapse
He was once Ireland’s richest man, with a personal fortune estimated at $6bn and all the trappings of the very wealthy – a helicopter, a pri...
IRISH Bank Resolution Corporation is to ask the courts in Northern Ireland to overturn the bankruptcy of businessman Seán Quinn.
THE IRISH Bank Resolution Corporation is to ask the courts in Northern Ireland to overturn the bankruptcy of businessman Seán Quinn. The ban...
Alice Walton, heiress to the Walmart supermarket fortune and the the 10th richest woman in the United States, opened a spectacular fine art museum in her home town
Architect Moshe Safdie looks out of a window next to a large red untitled magnifying disk sculpture by artist Fred Eversley at Crystal Bridg...
British bonds win 'safe haven' tag in eurozone debt storm
British government bonds are attracting strong support, in sharp contrast to their troubled eurozone peers as investors seek a safehaven f...
German chancellor may have an unexpected ally in David Cameron, the U.K. prime minister.
Even as opposition grows to Angela Merkel's campaign for an overhaul of the European treaty, the German chancellor may have an unexpecte...
Why E.U. collapse is more likely than the fall of the euro
European politics has become a giant Jenga game. Since June 2010 governments have fallen in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, Ireland, F...
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi after his capture, his fingers wrapped in bandages and his legs covered with a blanket
. Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the fugitive son of Libya 's deceased former dictator, has been arrested in so...
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi after his capture, his fingers wrapped in bandages and his legs covered with a blanket
. Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the fugitive son of Libya 's deceased former dictator, has been arrested in so...
An anti-British backlash gathered pace in Germany yesterday as David Cameron and Angela Merkel struggled to disguise the gulf between them on how to tackle the eurozone crisis.
An anti-British backlash gathered pace in Germany yesterday as David Cameron and Angela Merkel struggled to disguise the gulf between them...
An anti-British backlash gathered pace in Germany yesterday as David Cameron and Angela Merkel struggled to disguise the gulf between them on how to tackle the eurozone crisis.
An anti-British backlash gathered pace in Germany yesterday as David Cameron and Angela Merkel struggled to disguise the gulf between them...
A NEW breed of super-rich is crawling out of the mahogany woodwork in Australia.
A NEW breed of super-rich is crawling out of the mahogany woodwork in Australia. With the recent mining boom and strengthening dollar, a ...
GYRATIONS IN the world’s financial markets have been dominated of late by negative developments in the euro zone.
The rolling crisis has assumed a more urgent dimension as heavy selling of Italian government debt pushed yields beyond the 7 per cent thr...
