Graduates are facing the most intense scramble in a decade to get a job this summer, as a poll of employers reveals the number of applications for each vacancy has ...
Greece's fabled culture of honouring the dead has reached new heights with the discovery that the debt-choked country paid hundreds of deceased pensioners retirement payments for decades.Under unprecedented pressure to ...
BP has been forced to abandon hopes of drilling in the Arctic, currently the centre of a new oil rush, owing to its tarnished reputation after the Gulf of Mexico ...
When Ben Bernanke addresses the annual symposium of central bankers in Jackson Hole tomorrow he does so against arguably the most challenging backdrop in his tenure as Federal Reserve chairman. ...
Richard Gaines is one of the best-known faces on Camden's Haddon Avenue. It is a rough-and-tumble street, lined with cheap businesses and boarded-up houses, and is prey to drug gangs. ...
If you've been paying attention to some of the more peculiar side-effects of the global recession, you may have noticed that Canadians have been behaving uncharacteristically uppity of late. This ...
Fears that Britain could slip into a protracted depression intensified tonight as markets took fright at the US central bank's wary economic outlook, the Bank of England's own warnings on ...
The government of Hungary has taken on a lot of powerful interests in the last couple of months, and so far appears to be winning – despite provoking outrage from ...
Some might call it blackmail. The governor of Wyoming calls it desperation.Governor Dave Freudenthal is threatening to sell off a chunk of one of America's most beautiful national parks unless ...
Employers in the US shed twice as many jobs as expected in July, adding to fears that the recovery in the world's largest economy will not see a revival in ...
One chief executive overboard, a $17bn loss over the past three months and $32bn in clear-up costs. No doubt about it: BP has got off lightly for its part in ...
BP is planning to announce the departure of chief executive Tony Hayward alongside its half-year financial results on Tuesday.The BP boss will be replaced by Bob Dudley, who is currently ...
The Indian economic story has been marked in the last decade by outstanding success. The stock exchanges have outperformed leading indices worldwide, the demographics are favourable and the IT outsourcing ...
The headquarters of probably the most powerful charity in the world, and one of the most quietly influential international organisations of any sort, currently stand between a derelict restaurant and ...
Zhang Liwen found out that she was about to go on strike over a breakfast of steamed buns and congee rice porridge at her factory dormitory. Fifteen minutes later, she ...
