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BP announces latest asset sale

Oil giant BP has now sold 20 billion US dollars (£12.8 million) of assets to help pay for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster...

FTSE 100 boosted by banking rally

Banks have led a rally for the FTSE 100 Index as investors welcomed the final agreement on Europe's £72 billion bail-out package for Ireland.The...

Ruling Thai party survives threat

Thailand's ruling Democrat Party has survived a legal challenge which could have seen it dissolved and a new government formed after the Constitutional Court...

Icy trail leads police to suspects

Arctic weather helped police catch a pair of suspected thieves after they followed a trail of frozen water leaking from a stolen boiler.The boiler...

Clegg urged to oppose fees increase

More than 100 Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates have called on leader Nick Clegg to oppose the proposed rise in tuition fees.The 104 activists warned...

Volcano closes Indonesian airport

A smoking volcano on Indonesia's main island of Java has forced an airport to close.Mount Bromo, one of Java's most popular tourist attractions, came...

Australian police probe Assange

Police are investigating whether any Australian law was broken by the latest leaking of confidential documents by online whistleblower WikiLeaks.Attorney general Robert McClelland said...

Tube strike adds to commuter woes

Commuters battling the wintry weather face more travel disruption thanks to the latest strike by London Underground workers.Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport...

Dying Freud actor in stage collapse

An actor playing the dying psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud has collapsed on stage in New York.The life-imitates-art incident happened during a matinee performance of Freud's...

Candidates call to halt Haiti poll

Haiti's election has ended in discord with nearly all the major presidential candidates calling for it to be disallowed over fraud and claims that...

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