The European Chamber of Commerce in China has launched a 650-page report detailing the protectionist hurdles that still impede foreign businesses nearly 10 years after China's accession to the World Trade Organisation. We highlight four examples o...

The 25th anniversary of the discovery of the "buckyball", a spherical dome of exotic molecules of carbon, has been celebrated with a special interactive Google Doodle.

New technologies such Apple iPhone applications and Facebook have help save councils up to 230million over the past year, according to fresh research.

Warren Buffett has described the new owner of Burger King as a good friend. That, if nothing else, should help Jorge Paulo Lemann get a credit card in the US if he ever wanted one.

Worried residents phoned 999 to report sightings of ghosts and UFOs, details released under Freedom of Information disclose.

Brewers have launched a furious backlash against Diageo's drinks tax proposals, branding them a "ruse" to make spirits relatively cheaper.

Former Uruguayan rugby players who survived more than two months of isolation in the Andes after their plane crashed about 40 years ago are to visit the trapped Chilean miners.

Sarah has left her early-morning Radio 2 show after 17 years following a series of gaffes and erratic on-air behaviour.

The Duke of Edinburgh's portrait of the Queen seen in public for the first time.

Deputy Prime Minister puts his taxpayer-funded second home up for sale.

Royal Mail must be privatised to preserve the universal postal service, a government-commissioned report will say next week.

A police inquiry into mobile phone hacking by a tabloid newspaper may need to be reopened, the shadow home secretary said yesterday.

Dozens of British machine guns have been stolen in Afghanistan and used against Nato forces.

Fabio Capello hails Wayne Rooney's "perfect" display after asking striker to play in a new role for England against Bulgaria.

A group of leading doctors will go to the high court next week in an attempt to force an inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly.

A mobile phone belonging to Tessa Jowell, the former culture secretary, was hacked at least 28 times while she was a minister, she claimed last night.

It looks like the bankers are over the crisis that they in part caused. Now they are all wedged up they are apparently pushing up rents in London's Canary Wharf. Benham & Reeves is reporting a 34.7% rise in new tenant registrations since this ...

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Tony Blair has used the first list interview since the publication of his memoir, A Journey, to claim the Northern Ireland peace process was one of the few times in politics he felt proud.

Trapped miners form micro-society to keep them sane Government and taxation are essential for society, aren’t they? As opposed to any random group of individuals in any repetitive play game organising themselves into some form of society.

Light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashes and bursts into flames shortly after take-off.

This tragedy does not have a solution, said Hans-Werner Sinn, head of the prestigious IFO Institute in Munich. Greece would have been bankrupt without the rescue measures. All the alternatives are terrible but the least terrible is for the country...

At the ASI. Yes, we really do create resources through the application of technology.

Image via Wikipedia Fred Wilson write a great blog and not much needs to be added to it except that he is one person who got in early and will make a ton of money out of spotting the social network space. Amazing to have the simple vision to use t...

You know who keeps saying (well, he would, wouldn’t he, given that he’s paid to write reports for PCS, the taxmans’ union) that it’s appalling that we’re cutting the number of taxmen. However, just part of that process that has contribut...

This story is huge over here. One of Portugal’s most famous television presenters and a former ambassador were among six men found guilty yesterday of involvement with a paedophile prostitution ring that exploited children from state-run orphana...

Curfew announced in Christchurch after magnitude 7.1 earthquake destroys hundreds of buildings.

Alan Duncan, a long-standing friend, describes coverage of the Foreign Secretary's personal life as "contemptible".

Team Sky have withdrawn from the Tour of Spain following the death of their Spanish soigneur Txema Gonzalez.

Jonathan Trott says cricket will be on "slippery slope" if allegations of spot-fixing are not treated with the utmost seriousness.

He married wife Georgina soon after joining Top Gear. As a member of the wealthy Clifton set Bristols answer to the Sloane Rangers she may have expected to be kept in some style. Georgina, wealthy Clifton set…..I wonder could it be the same one?...

It's the last seven days' media and marketing news distilled into handy bitesized chunks. This week, a sports reporter gets in trouble over an unwise tweet, the CIPR doesn't admire ASA's online plans, and allegations abound...

HALIFAX, Canada, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Tropical storm Earl, a shadow of the massive hurricane that frightened the U.S. East Coast this week, picked up speed on Saturday as it bore down on Atlantic Canada packed with strong winds and rain.

Earthquake causes chaos in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.

The new Stig in the BBC motoring series Top Gear is odds on to be a woman, according to bookmakers.

Former prime minister given angry reception at book signing.

Washington Post Four arrested over protest at Tony Blair book signing Irish Times Four men have been arrested following a protest in Dublin city centre this morning where former British prime minister Tony Blair held a public book signing, the fi...

A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be "very interested" in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a groundbreaking code-share deal with India's Kingfisher Airlines

The boss of the budget airline Ryanair has called for co-pilots to be removed from the flight deck to save money and suggested that air stewardesses could land planes in an emergency.

Pressure is mounting against Andy Coulson - the Prime Minister's chief spin doctor and former News of the World editor - as former ministers call for a fresh inquiry into alleged phone-hacking by journalists.