The Government should offer credit subsidies to pension funds and other institutional investors in order to unlock billions of pounds for infrastructure spending, the CBI argues today.
Detectives carrying out the multimillion-pound investigation into illegal newsgathering techniques at Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group have been asked to investigate whether it attempted to blackmail politicians.
Baroness Warsi faced calls last night to stand down as the Conservative Party co-chairman following allegations she claimed expenses while staying rent-free at a friend's house.
The United Nations Security Council last night condemned the
Syrian government "in the strongest possible terms" for
heavy-weapon attacks on the town of Houla, where 108 people, and up
to 34 children, were killed on Friday.
Towards the end of another cloudless, mesmeric day in the second
Test, England finally shook off West Indies. All match long, the
tourists had snapped at their opponents' heels, never exerting a
tight grip but hanging on desperately in the belief that anything
could happen if only they could stay in touch.
Roy Hodgson has vowed that England will not repeat the mistake
of taking an unfit Gareth Barry into another tournament, as the day
arrives that will tell the manager the full extent of the injury
crisis that clouds his European Championship hopes.
That something utterly appalling happened outside the Syrian city of Houla on Friday is beyond doubt. As the sickening pictures of murdered children showed – pictures rightly reprinted by several British newspapers, including our sister paper The Independent on Sunday – many victims were children, at least some of whom had had their throats cut. Even as the Syrian authorities denied responsibility, blaming Islamists and terrorists, they conceded that at least 90 people had been killed. Of these more than 30 were children, slaughtered, as the pictures attest, in cold blood. Opposition activists accused pro-regime gunmen of the massacre.
I first became aware of Bob Geldof in 1977 when I bought the debut single by The Boomtown Rats. In those days, he was pretending to be a punk. Since then, he has been an activist, actor, champion of fathers' rights, DJ and multi-millionaire media mogul. Now in his latest guise he is, to use his own vernacular, a private equity whore.
The north-south divide in house prices is widening, according to figures for May published today. Rising property values in London helped push the latest national Hometrack house price index into positive territory, despite seven out of 10 regions posting falling or static prices.
Haile Gebrselassie's hopes of appearing at the London Olympics were dashed yesterday after the two-time Olympic 10,000m champion could only finish seventh at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in Hengelo.
Michael Woodford, the British whistleblower sacked from Japanese cameras and endoscopes giant Olympus, begins his multi-million-pound unfair dismissal case against the company at a London tribunal today.
Scotland Yard will today be accused of misusing powers to prevent disruption to last year's royal wedding in a court case that could have major implications for police operations in the run-up to the Olympic Games.
A gritty drama about serial killer Fred West won three television Baftas last night.
Call for supervision of new doctors
For us data watchers, last week was a big one and pretty exciting. Oil and commodity prices continued their downward slide. In the euro area, the PMI flash estimates showed weakening in both services and manufacturing. Perhaps more important still was the flash estimate for Germany, which also implied slowing. To this point, Germany has been an island of growth but as John Donne warned in For Whom the Bell Tolls : "No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less." The less indeed. These data appear to strengthen French President François Hollande's argument that it is time for the Euro area to get a growth plan. Austerity is failing everywhere – not just the UK.
During a moment of panic on the streets of Rangoon in 1988, 17 year-old Kyaw Min Yu caught a glimpse of his future wife, Nilar Thein. She was aiming a kick at an army officer's face and it was the last time he would see her for 16 years.
La Clinton hath spoken. Thirty-three million smackers lopped off Pakistan's aid budget because its spooks banged up poor old Dr Shakeel Afridi for 33 years after a secret trial. And, as the world knows, Dr Afridi's crime was to confirm the presence of that old has-been Osama bin Laden in his grotty Abbottabad villa.
Tens of thousands thronged the streets of Georgia's capital yesterday to show their opposition to President Mikhail Saakashvili in the largest anti-government demonstration in three years.
The shock and bewilderment following Egypt's unexpected preliminary presidential election result has triggered recriminations among the liberal activists who helped topple Hosni Mubarak last year.
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