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UK government setting emission limits
The Government is set to announce that it has agreed to ambitious targets for emissions cuts into the 2020s, after a Cabinet rift on the issue.
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne, currently at the centre of claims he persuaded someone else to…
Donald Trump gives up on running for US president
US tycoon Donald Trump says he will not run for the US presidency in 2012, declaring he is not ready to leave the private sector.
On Monday, he said he could win but "business is my greatest passion".
In recent months, the real estate…
IMF boss denied bail
The chief of the International Monetary Fund was spending the night in jail at Rikers Island, a 400-acre penal complex that offers a strikingly different level of comfort than the $3,000-a-night Manhattan hotel suite where authorities say…
Former President Rawlings meets Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister
President Jerry John Rawlings, AU High Representative for Somalia, has held a meeting with the Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ato Hailemariam Desalegn.
President Rawlings, who was in Ethiopia to…
Victim of alleged sexual assault by IMF boss thought to be from Ghana – Report
The 32-year-old African-American woman allegedly sexually assaulted by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn is thought to be originally from Ghana, the Daily Mail, a British publication has…
Oil prices fall more than a dollar as US dollar climbs
U.S. oil futures slipped to as low as $98.13 a barrel on Monday as the euro fell to a seven-week low against the dollar on worries that Greece may restructure its sovereign debt.
Brent crude for June fell 81 cents to $113.02 a barrel at…
IMF boss arrest won’t affect Greece bailout talks
The arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn complicates a key European meeting on whether to give Greece billions more in aid — but experts insisted one man's troubles won't keep the 17 eurozone nations from trying to contain a debt…
British armed forces face new wave of cuts
The armed forces is facing a further wave of cuts in the next financial year as the Ministry of Defence seeks to make more savings.
A three-month study, reporting in July, will consider how more personnel and equipment programmes could be…
IMF boss, Strauss-Kahn charged with sex attack
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been charged by New York police over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid.
Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, was taken off an Air France plane at JFK airport just minutes…
Pfizer sets aside $772m to settle claims over drug illness
The drugs giant Pfizer has put aside $772m (£476m) to resolve claims its hormone replacement drugs cause serious illness.
Pfizer, which is the world's largest drugmaker, said the money provides "the minimum expected costs to resolve all of…