New Zealand's government has squeezed smokers more than ever by announcing a 40% hike in tobacco taxes over the next four years.

The General Secretary of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee has been filmed offering to sell several thousand pounds worth of Olympics tickets to an undercover reporter posing as a ticket tout.

The great and the good of the Indian business community may be fiercely protesting his innocence on the web and in interviews, but a jury of ordinary New Yorkers will decide the fate of Rajat Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs board member whose trial for insider trading got under way yesterday.

The football match of your lifetime starts in 20 minutes but you don't have a ticket. You will pay whatever the touts on the corner are demanding.

The European arm of one of Japan's biggest insurance groups was yesterday fined £3.35m by the City regulator, while its former executive chairman was given a lifetime ban on working in the City.

Three men have been arrested and 36 criminal websites selling credit card information and other personal data shut down as part of a two-year international anti-fraud operation, police have confirmed.

The first case of someone being brought to Britain to have an organ removed for trafficking has been uncovered, according to a report.

Two men have been jailed for money laundering following a £2.3 million fraud against the Olympic Delivery Authority.

The theft of oriental art from Cambridge University has police stumped. By Charlie Cooper

As yet another museum is raided, Charlie Cooper investigates a black market boom for Chinese art

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said his mind is "open" over proposals to strip cigarette packets of branding as a consultation on the plans was launched.

Starring: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nicolas Cage, after two encouraging comeback turns in Kick-Ass and Bad Lieutenant, returns to dunderheaded action territory.

Coutts, the bank famed for handling the finances of the Queen and around half the England football team, was fined £8.75 million for "serious, systemic" money-laundering failures yesterday.