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German groups agree €30bn nuclear deal
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:51:37 GMT
Germany’s four big power companies are to pay the Berlin government a total of €30bn to extend the phase-out of the country’s nuclear power stations by up to 12 years
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Cameron aide willing to see police over phone tap claims
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:07:48 GMT
John Yates, Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner, says he will examine new evidence that hacking at the News of the World – which Mr Coulson used to edit – was more widespread than previously claimed
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Suicide bomber kills 17 in Pakistan
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:21:39 GMT
An attacker rammed his car into a police station in the town of Lakki Marwat, killing at least 17 people in the third in a string of attacks by al-Qaeda-linked militants over the last week
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Spain dismisses Eta ceasefire offer
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:55:14 GMT
Interior minister has dismissed as irrelevant a ceasefire announced by the violent Basque separatist group Eta, saying that the militants could not be trusted and the government would continue pursuing Eta members
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Obama seeks to retain R&D tax credit
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:41:27 GMT
President is to ask Congress to expand and make permanent a tax credit for research and development to boost a flagging economic recovery
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Ramadan demand prompts rise in food prices
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:20:11 GMT
Red meat is costing up to a third more amid concerns that prices will rise further in November
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London fears power shift to Brussels
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:20:55 GMT
Michel Barnier believes the clouds over Europe’s new financial supervisory structures have cleared after EU diplomats and lawmakers agreed to a radical overhaul of the patchy system of financial oversight
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Search on for clues at N Korean congress
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:15:44 GMT
North Korea’s state news agency usually specialises in tedious bulletins, but now these dreary dispatches will have unusually expectant readers as experts across the globe scour them for a name that has never before appeared in the official news media: Kim Jong-eun
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Dissident leader offers lifeline to Berlusconi
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:00:16 GMT
Gianfranco Fini, leader of breakaway dissidents from Italy’s ruling party, launched a scathing attack on Silvio Berlusconi but stopped short of forcing his former ally into early elections
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Creditors renew hunt for Nadir’s missing art
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:49:29 GMT
Bankruptcy trustees pursuing the assets of Asil Nadir, who returned to the UK last month to face prosecution for theft, are reviving their search for half a dozen works of art acquired by him before he fled abroad
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