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No quick fix for this property problem

2009-11-18T08:00:19Z

Phone firms under attack for supplying �spy� technology

2009-06-22T10:47:26Z

Mobile phone firm Nokia and IT company Siemens came under fire today as it emerged they supplied Iran with the technology it is using to block phone and internet access

Energy giants set to capture desert heat

2009-06-18T09:21:24Z

A consortium led by some of Germany's richest companies is venturing into the deserts of North Africa in a half-billion pound project aimed at bringing solar energy to Europe

City Spy: Restaurateur is mad as hell

2009-06-18T13:55:32Z

SOREN JESSEN, a sometime Merrill Lynch banker who now owns City eaterie One Lombard Street, is mad as hell. He has just incurred a �54,000 stamp duty charge for renewing his lease on the premises � ouch

Man trucks probed in major �bribery� scandal

2009-05-12T08:47:33Z

The giant Man trucks and machines company is the latest German industrial concern to be embroiled in a corruption scandal that has spread across the country

Get a move on, Ed, or sun will set on our wind-power dream

2009-04-16T07:35:25Z

Energy analysis: Seen any sign of those 300 wind turbines the height of Nelson's Column going up in the Thames estuary for the promised London Array, "the world's biggest offshore wind farm"?

It�s better to pay a �900m fine than suffer a worse fate

2009-03-03T08:43:19Z

There can't be many businesses that regard being fined €1 billion for endemic corruption as a successful outcome.

Battle lines are drawn up as recession bolsters corruption

2009-01-13T10:15:03Z

Battle lines are drawn up as recession bolsters corruption

2009-01-13T10:26:21Z

Legal analysis: More cases of corruption are likely as a result of the recession, according to the Director of Public Prosecutions

Battle lines are drawn up as recession bolsters corruption

2009-01-13T10:15:30Z

Hang on a minute lads ... Caine tells all about that job

2008-11-28T08:46:19Z

Sir Michael Caine has solved the mystery of a 40-year-old cliffhanger at the end of his cult film, The Italian Job

Drax puts its energies into alternatives

2008-10-24T10:28:52Z

Analysis: It is, says Dorothy Thompson, the Drax chief executive who wants to produce a whole load of our electricity from biomass, the forgotten renewable energy

Drax unveils �2bn plans to turn green

2008-10-23T12:19:23Z

Energy: Britain's biggest polluting power station, the giant coal-fired Drax, reveals ambitious plans to become one of the country's biggest green energy producers

All aboard Der Routemeister

2008-10-17T08:13:27Z

A proposal for a new electric Routemaster bus is unveiled, complete with glass roof, optional solar panels and LCD screens showing route details

German workers demand 8 per cent rises

2008-09-29T11:25:42Z

Pay: IG Metall - the most powerful union on the Continent - has demanded a hefty 8% pay increase for 3.6 million workers in the metallurgy and electronics industries

Siemens close to US scandal deal

2008-08-21T08:25:02Z

Embattled engineering giant Siemens is close to reaching a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US justice department in its billion pound bribery scandal

UK fears as Germany on brink of recession

2008-08-14T07:35:43Z

Fears for the health of the UK economy intensified as figures emerged suggesting that the slowdown is taking the rest of Europe close to recession

Oil surcharge looks tricky for BA as price dips

2008-08-11T09:07:24Z

Basketball link in Siemens trial

2008-08-07T11:20:18Z

The next round of Siemens corruption trials will feature female basketball stars as witnesses

SEC team starts Siemens probe

2008-08-06T09:28:26Z

US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating billion-pound slush-funds

Siemens bids to avoid US action

2008-08-01T09:10:45Z

Siemens hopes this week's guilty verdict in its massive kickbacks scandal will put proceedings against it in the US on hold

Siemens mulls scandal action

2008-07-29T08:46:23Z

Board of German engineering group are expected to go after the assetts of former bosses as bribery scandal continues to rock the company

Alcatel-Lucent ditches bosses

2008-07-29T13:26:05Z

Chairman and CEO of Franco-American telecoms giant are culled following a series of ofit warnings

Guilty verdict in Siemens slush scandal

2008-07-28T13:07:53Z

Former Siemens manager Reinhard Siekaczek, convicted over his role in a corruption scandal at the company, given a two-year suspended sentence and fined �85,000

15,000 facing the axe at Siemens

2008-06-27T07:35:51Z

Scandal-plagued electronics giant Siemens could cut as many as 15,000 jobs worldwide, with the UK taking some of the pain

�209m 'smart' move by Nokia

2008-06-24T13:12:01Z

Mobile phones maker Nokia hopes to shake up the sector with a £209 million deal to take control of software firm Symbian

Siemens to sue scandal bosses

2008-04-14T11:22:00Z

German engineering giant wants to go after the executive committee members in charge during slush-fund scandal

New train design 'unworkable'

2008-04-14T08:38:47Z

Plans for a new multi-billion-pound fleet of high-speed trains to run between London and the North and West of England are in disarray

The power of art

2006-10-08T23:00:00Z

It's hard to think of a more impressive backdrop than Battersea Power Station for this first significant show of Chinese contemporary art, says Nick Hackworth.