Shoe shop chain Barratts Priceless makes 1,600 staff redundant

  The high street gloom deepened on Friday as more than 1,600 workers at shoe chain Barratts Priceless were made redundant and 400 jobs were...

Spain sets out 8.9bn euros of new austerity measures

  Spain's new conservative government has outlined 8.9bn euros ($11.5bn, £7.5bn) in new spending cuts and tax rises to lower the country...

High street lingerie chain La Senza has announced that it is planning to enter administration in the next 10 days due to "poor trading conditions"

High street lingerie chain La Senza has announced that it is planning to enter administration in the next 10 days due to "poor trading ...

British bonds win 'safe haven' tag in eurozone debt storm

  British government bonds are attracting strong support, in sharp contrast to their troubled eurozone peers as investors seek a safehaven f...

TWO MILLION EUROS CLAIMED AFTER CANCELLED STONES CONCERT

The PP mayor of El Ejido in Almería, Francisco Góngora, has criticized the "negligence" of the former government team and announce...

Four police officers stabbed in north London

  Four police officers were stabbed as they tried to detain a man after a disturbance in north London, Scotland Yard said on Saturday. Poli...

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi after his capture, his fingers wrapped in bandages and his legs covered with a blanket

. Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the fugitive son of  Libya 's deceased former dictator, has been arrested in so...

An anti-British backlash gathered pace in Germany yesterday as David Cameron and Angela Merkel struggled to disguise the gulf between them on how to tackle the eurozone crisis.

  An anti-British backlash gathered pace in Germany yesterday as David Cameron and Angela Merkel struggled to disguise the gulf between them...

Virgin buys Northern Rock for £747m

  Northern Rock has been sold to Virgin Money, for £747m, marking the first return to the private sector of a UK government-backed bank sinc...

UK press in dock over phone-hacking, lawyer says

  Britain's entire press stands in the dock at an inquiry into media standards, said a lawyer representing victims of press intrusion an...

UK economy forecast: Eurozone crisis dampens Bank’s growth estimate

  THE Bank of England warned today that the eurozone debt crisis is the “single biggest risk” to the UK recovery as it forecast a dramatical...

Euro zone crisis is tough going -- for traders

  Life is not easy for the financial market traders who are making things so hard for euro zone policymakers. There are no pumped-up trader...

Bank governor Sir Mervyn King sent a stark message to political leaders as he flagged an unresolved eurozone debt crisis

  Bank governor Sir Mervyn King sent a stark message to political leaders as he flagged an unresolved eurozone debt crisis as the "sing...

How a Financial Pro Lost His House

  ONE night a few years ago, when the value of our home had collapsed, our debt was out of control and my financial planning business was sh...

BOTTOM five most hated airports

5. Ninoy Aquino International, Manila, Philippines   Wear a helmet -- the first collapsed ceiling in 2006 at Ninoy Aquino International Airp...

Top five most hated Airports

10. São Paulo-Guarulhos International, São Paulo, Brazil   Whether it's 9 a.m. or 9 p.m. this airport experiences round-the-clock rush h...

Fall of richest man in Ireland as Quinn is declared bankrupt

  TROUBLED tycoon Sean Quinn, once Ireland’s richest man, was declared bankrupt yesterday at the High Court in Belfast. The 64-year-old bus...

Murdochs are not a mafia – but the family firm is in meltdown

  There are times to push fine detail and finely timed memory losses aside and ask: what makes sense? And thus the fall and fall of the Hous...

Man arrested over alleged police payments named as Sun journalist

  A Sun journalist has been arrested as part of Scotland Yard's investigation into alleged payments to police officers by newspapers. T...

Italy government hangs by thread as coalition crumbles

  Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's fate hung by a thread Friday and desertions from his crumbling centre-right coalition may h...

Wall Street markets are suffering huge falls this morning as fears grow that Europe's plan to save the euro will unravel

Wall Street markets are suffering huge falls this morning as fears grow that Europe's plan to save the euro will unravel before it can e...