The company behind the microchips in Apple’s iPhones and iPads today hailed a “strong start” to the year, with more than two billion devices using their chips shipped in the past three months alone.

Financial giant is accused of exploiting rules over metal warehousing in order to manipulate commodity prices

The Independent on Sunday: Crackdown planned on £5bn private hospital sector

Few of Richard Nixon’s senior aides emerged from the Watergate debacle with their reputations intact, but Leonard Garment was one – even though he had served as the president’s top lawyer for 12 months at the very height of the scandal. A greater mystery, at first glance at least, was how he arrived in the White House in the first place.

Google has suffered a surprise slowdown in the UK, with revenues falling for the first time in eight quarters.

England striker lacks the conviction to speak his mind, letting third parties do it

Former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre is in court over allegations he misled investors

JP Morgan Chase, the American bank that this time last year was nursing heavy losses from botched derivatives trades, surpassed expectations with its results for the second quarter of this year, reporting a 31 per cent rise in profits as its investment banking business strengthened and it set aside less money to cover bad loans.

On Monday Texas Governor Rick Perry announced that he is retiring at the end of his term. Perry’s is most famous internationally for his hopeless run to be the Republican Presidential candidate in 2011-2012.

Outlook Exchanges are in vogue right now. The European Union's competition people love them. Last week they brandished a big stick at a group of 13 City banks after exchanges complained that they had been shut out of the lucrative credit derivative market.

Global Outlook: Washington’s policies are playing havoc with the well-being of those trying to find work

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time: one of Japan’s top science museums has borrowed Honda Motor’s iconic spaceman robot, Asimo, as a guide. But the confused bot is struggling to distinguish between people raising their hands to ask a question and just taking photos.

Head of NSA defends monitoring as legal, closely supervised and crucial to defending Americans, adding it was not “some rogue operation”

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