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Apple changes Regent Street to its core

20.11.09
Arrival of Apple Store exactly half a decade ago has transformed Regent Street into one of Europe’s leading retail shopping destinations... more

Mayday! Who will leave BA board?

20.11.09
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Police ‘will quit’ if Tories create elected bosses

20.11.09
One of Britain’s top policemen clashed with David Cameron over Tory plans for locally elected police chiefs... more

Vicks recalls nasal sprays amid health fears

20.11.09
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Pilot faces court on drink charge

20.11.09
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Sound check: Green is the new rock'n'roll

20.11.09
Musicians are realising that there are plenty of ways they can help save the planet — without making the rest of us cringe.... more

Your guide to Copenhagen and the global climate change summit

19.11.09
Energy analysis: Here's what those over-informed environmentalists/spotty greeno-commies/clean-tech hedge fund managers are talking about... more

Cadbury battle prompts City search for next takeover target

19.11.09
The £10 billion battle for control of Cadbury, 5p cheaper at 792½p, is now warming up, but the City is looking around for the next Footsie 100 target... more

Army blamed for Katrina flooding

19.11.09
A federal judge has ruled that the US Army Corps of Engineers' failure to maintain a navigation channel led to some of the massive flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005... more

Astra faces 6000 side-effects claims over mind drug

19.11.09
AstraZeneca could face as many as 6000 lawsuits after a judge in America ruled that claims against its psychiatric treatment Seroquel should be put on trial separately... more

The best books of the year

19.11.09
Our reviewers name the titles that have meant the most to them over the past 12 months... more

Goldman doesn’t look good over AIG

19.11.09
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Outraged over comedy in five easy steps

18.11.09
Stop! Stop what you are doing at once! A major breach in public decorum and decency has occurred and you owe it to Society In General to take a moment to be appalled... more

Wolseley’s pain worsens in a tough building market

18.11.09
If the US and Britain are coming out of recession, someone has forgotten to tell Wolseley ... more

Qataris are billed £100m for Candys

18.11.09
The already high stakes in the battle between the former partners in the £3 billion redevelopment of the Chelsea Barracks site are set to get even higher ... more

Agents: We’ll sell derelict Mayfair house for £30m

18.11.09
It may be the middle of a recession and the property is derelict, but estate agents are confident of finding buyers for a £30 million Mayfair house which has just gone on the market... more

‘Being in the UK is the best place to make movies’

18.11.09
Harry Brown producer Kris Thykier made his money in PR and is using it to carve a path in the movie industry ... more

Belle de Jour called for legal prostitution

18.11.09
Scientist who revealed she was call girl Belle de Jour publicly called for prostitution to be legalised when she was a 20-year-old... more

Whitney is über-bearish as shares rise around the world

17.11.09
Share prices on both sides of the Pond are trading at their best levels in more than a year, so stock market investors could be forgiven for thinking the worst of the global recession and banking meltdown is over ... more

China ‘will be the world’s biggest economy by 2027’

17.11.09
Goldman Sachs has upgraded its forecast for China’s economic growth, predicting it will overtake America to become the world’s biggest economy in 2027 — 14 years earlier than expected ... more

China censors Obama's call for freedom on the internet

17.11.09
The Chinese snubbed Barack Obama after his message about censorship and free speech, made during a visit to the country yesterday, was censored... more

Sir Win’s buying spree has City guessing about Lloyds

17.11.09
Does Lloyds Banking Group chairman Sir Win Bischoff know something the rest of us do not? ... more

Google puts millions of books for sale online

17.11.09
Millions of out-of-print books could be made available on Google after it signed a deal with publishing groups and authors... more

Frey returns to fray with new hedge fund

17.11.09
Robert Frey, co-founder of the world’s most successful hedge fund businesses, Renaissance, is returning to the industry with a new fund partly run by an investment team in London ... more

Jay Sean could teach the X Factor contestants a thing or two

16.11.09
A Hounslow boy, trained as a doctor, he dreamed of R&B stardom. Now Jay Sean’s US No 1 hit has sold two million copies. X Factor wannabes take note.... more

Check out the new crash pads

16.11.09
At the end of a hot date or a great night out, nothing beats checking into one of the new chic-but-cheap boutique hotels that have sprung up around London, as Liz Hoggard finds out... more

Obama takes China to task over liberties

16.11.09
Barack Obama risked angering his Chinese hosts by saying that individual rights and freedoms should be available to all... more

No fuss, just pure moaning from Louis CK

16.11.09
Louis CK was OK in The Invention Of Lying but this American misanthrope is far better at brutal, self-mocking stand-up.... more

Victoria Beckham visits some of poorest children in US

16.11.09
Victoria Beckham has spoken out about childhood poverty after taking her eldest son to visit some of the poorest children in America.... more

Bank of America on rumour mill

16.11.09
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