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US skyscraper linked to Iran is confiscated

13.11.09
Prosecutors in America have moved to seize four mosques and a Manhattan skyscraper owned by a Muslim group suspected of being controlled by Iran... more

Tullow outperforms rivals on talk of ExxonMobil bid

06.10.09
Tullow Oil was one of the best blue-chip performers, climbing 84p to 1199p amid rising hopes that the world's biggest oil company ExxonMobil is poised to take a stake... more

Only the net could catch a Tongan nasal flautist

07.09.09
Among the many curious delights of the British Library's extraordinary audio archive of world and traditional music is a haunting field recording of an Australian aborigine crying for a dead companion... more

'Giant discovery' sends BP's shares soaring

02.09.09
Oil major BP reports a "giant discovery" in the Gulf of Mexico sending its shares to a new high for the year... more

Why America’s medical industry hates the NHS

14.08.09
A writer who has seen the dark side of US healthcare says he backs our system against the American model... more

City Spy: Carter's quick to grab private desk

24.07.09
So the Treasury Select Committee is to launch an investigation into unequal opportunities and sexism in the City? That will be an investigation then by a committee of MPs made up of just one woman and 13 white blokes... more

WORLD: Stanford to appear in court on fraud charges

19.06.09
Texas billionaire Allen Stanford is to appear in a federal court in Virginia over allegations of massive fraud involving his Antigua bank, after he surrendered to the FBI... more

CDs of the week

24.04.09
Bob Dylan returns with his 33rd studio album, The Enemy reinvent themselves as rock gods and the Handsome Family get mellow.... more

BP to pay $50m fine for Texas oil blast

13.03.09
A judge has approved a highly criticised plea deal that fines BP $50 million (£36 million) for its criminal role in a refinery blast that killed 15 people... more

Relief for Deng after he is given the okay

03.03.09
Basketball: Great Britain basketball star Luol Deng could be back in action tonight after overcoming an injury scare... more

Gold rush that's over already

19.02.09
Sir Allen Stanford's alleged investment fraud may have been devised far from New York, in balmy Antigua and Houston, but its repercussions were quickly felt on Wall Street. ... more

Sir Allen Stanford foiled in bid to fly out of US

18.02.09
The Texan tycoon facing multi-billion-dollar fraud charges tried to leave the US by hiring a private jet... more

FBI arrest stops play for would-be king of cricket

18.02.09
The Texan billionaire who shook up Lord’s with his $20m match in the Caribbean faces $8bn fraud charges in the US. As investigators pore over Sir Allen Stanford’s books, we reveal the warning signs that should have been spotted... more

Basell collapse hits Goldman for £597m

28.01.09
Banking: Goldman Sachs has lost $850 million in the collapse of Russian tycoon Leonid Blavatnik’s chemicals firm LyondellBasell, due to a disastrous loan thought to have been made out of its London offices... more

Enjoy them, it's a blessing says mother of octuplets

27.01.09
The world's first set of octuplets to survive more than a few hours were born in Houston in Texas just over a decade ago... more

Oligarch's chemicals giant close to collapse

02.01.09
Industrials: Industrial giant LyondellBasell Industries is in danger of collapse as the twin threats of rising costs and global recession put the squeeze on the chemicals industry... more

Cricket's new mogul is thriving on adversity

28.10.08
Cricket: In times of trouble, the Stanfords always come out on top. This Texan family have survived the Great Depression of the 1920s, the oil crisis of the 1980s and the current credit crunch... more

Millions flee New Orleans as Gustav bears down

01.09.08
New Orleans is a rain-lashed ghost city, with just a handful of remaining citizens hiding in their homes as they await Hurricane Gustav... more

Manners, Lily - it's so not cool to lash out

20.08.08
When did it become a ho-ho-ho national joke for our celebrities to beat people up? The nation is chortling today over the photos of a trashed Lily Allen punching a member of the public outside Ronnie Scott's... more

Weekend gig guide

24.07.08
REM are set to take over Twickenham and the Pimm's Festival continues with the likes of Jo Brand and Jeremy Hardy.... more

Bollywood's biggest and best gather for Dome extravaganza

03.07.08
They are some of the best known names in Indian cinema - and they will be performing at the biggest live indoor Bollywood event seen in Britain... more

BAE staff brace for action by America

19.05.08
BAE Systems is bracing itself for a wave of US subpoenas of senior staff after its chief executive and a high-ranking board director were detained by the US Department of Justice... more

Magic moments for faithful followers of R.E.M.

25.03.08
REM succumbed to the tragic disease which affects all rockers at their Royal Albert Hall gig: plug-the-new-album-itis.... more

Make mine a whopper

30.04.07
Director Richard Linklater tells Larushka Ivan-Zadeh why he has turned activist in his drama exposing the fast-food industry.... more

Zandra creates 'eye-popping' costumes for opera

18.04.07
Zandra Rhodes will design the set and costumes for an extravagant new production of Aida, the highlight of the English National Opera's new season announced today.... more

Ring tone king rings hollow

01.12.06
Chamillionaire, may have sold more than a million albums and a record-breaking three million ring tones but he can't drag more than a handful of people down to Kentish Town.... more

Full of Eastern promise

10.10.06
With two poorly received stagings and the season barely a month old, English National Opera needed a hit. In this raw and intelligent staging of Jenufa it has one.... more

Blogged to mediocrity

31.08.06
Indie rock band Tapes 'n' Tapes have become one of the most blogged about bands of this year, but if they were feeling jaded by all the attention, they didn't show it at Dingwalls.... more

Tunnel vision

15.08.06
Terence Blanchard wasn't expecting a hand-luggage ban to ground his horn at Lyon airport. But after he got his instruments through the Channel Tunnel, he had the chance to put on a cracking show.... more

Desperate housewives in space

11.08.06
The Astronaut Wives' Club, by the talented young Al Smith, is like Desperate Housewives taken back 40 years and with all remaining men from Wisteria Lane blasted into space.... more

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